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This is a summary and analysis of the novel Dark Places. Dark Places is Gillian Flynn's 2009 bestselling novel. It is a crime thriller containing a peculiar protagonist and dreadful situations. Though some readers may not appreciate the novel's dark perspective or the characters' unusual behaviors, others will enjoy the alternative viewpoints it depicts. Some will even be happy with the subversion of the rules of investigative writing, even as the...
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This is a Summary of Grant Cardone's The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and FailureWhile most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals...
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This is a Summary of Robert B. Reich's Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few. This presents a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class,...
4) Gretchen Rubin's Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits- to Sleep Mo
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This is a Summary of Gretchen Rubin's New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits- to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life SummaryThe author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change?Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible...
5) Tony Robbins' Awaken the Giant Within How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Ph
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This is a Summary of Tony Robbins' Awaken the Giant Within How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!Tony Robbins is a bestselling author, and the nation's leader in the science of peak performance. With his book he shares his most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your emotions, your body, your relationships, your finances, and your life.Ask any person and you're bound to get the same...
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This is a summary of Dan Harris' 10% Happier: How I Tamed The Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, And Found Self-Help That Actually Works - A True Story and Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational MemoirAfter having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help...
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This is a Summary of Henry Cloud's The Power of the Other: The Startling Effect Other People Have on you, from the Boardroom to the Bedroom and Beyond -and What to Do About ItMost leadership coaching focuses on helping leaders build their skills and knowledge and close performance gaps. These are necessary, but not sufficient. Using evidence from neuroscience and his work with leaders, Dr. Henry Cloud shows that the best performers draw on another...
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This is a Summary of Michael Pollan's #1 New York Times Bestseller " In Defense of Food An Eater's Manifesto".Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the...
9) Chris Ducker's Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Prod
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This is a Summary of Chris Ducker's Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream BusinessEntrepreneurs often suffer from "superhero syndrome"-the misconception that to be successful, they must do everything themselves. Not only are they the boss, but also the salesperson, HR manager, copywriter, operations manager, online marketing guru, and so much more. It's no wonder why so many...
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This is a summary of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton (2004); a voluminous book which chronicles the life and legacy of one of America's Founding Fathers.Alexander Hamilton gained prominence as one of America's Founding Fathers and leader of the Federalist Party. And as Federalist, he was the major proponent for a strong centralized government. A true patriot, Hamilton was a very versatile man. He earned a law degree, worked alongside George Washington,...
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This is a Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some...
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This is a summary of General Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex WorldWhat if you could combine the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization?THE OLD RULES NO LONGER APPLY . . .When General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2004, he quickly realized that conventional military tactics were failing. Al Qaeda...
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This is a Summary of Josh Kaufman's the personal MBA: master the art of business.Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds...
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This is a Summary of Erik Larson's #1 New York Times Bestseller Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months,...
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This is a Summary of Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It; an eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat.In the book Taubes visits the urgent question of what's making us fat-and how we can change-in his exciting new book. Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat makes Taubes's crucial argument newly accessible to a wider audience. He reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century, none...
16) James Andrew Miller's Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency Summary
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This is a Summary of James Andrew Miller's New York Times bestseller Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists AgencyThe movies you watch, the TV shows you adore, the concerts and sporting events you attend-behind the curtain of nearly all of these is an immensely powerful and secretive corporation known as Creative Artists Agency. Started in 1975, when five bright and brash employees of a creaky William Morris office left to open...
17) W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space A
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This is a Summary of W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space And Make the Competition IrrelevantThis global bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, challenges everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Now updated with fresh content from the authors, Blue Ocean Strategy argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody...
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This is a summary of Adam M. Grant's New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our SuccessNamed one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal- as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads, Fortune's must-read business books, and the Washington Post's books every leader should read.For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion,...
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This is a summary of Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way . The book has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. This summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all 201 pages. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer.While The Obstacle...
20) Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answe
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This is a Summary of Ben Horowitz's The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersBen Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup-practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn't cover..While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very...