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Goleman was the first to identify emotional intelligence as a critical factor in leadership performance and success. He wrote about this succinctly in his best selling book, Emotional Intelligence. His Harvard Business Review (HBR) article is the first identifying and analyzing specifically how emotional intelligence is a critical factor in management success and CEO performance.

"The Nose" is the second best known story of Gogol, after "The Overcoat". A military major discovers his nose is missing and works to recover it. He finds the nose but it pretends to have a life of its own, as a fellow human. It in fact has a higher rank than the Major himself. The Major is perplexed, goes back to his apartment, and has the nose returned to him. With great joy he recovers his nose, only to find it won't reattach to his face. After much going on, he finds the nose reattached to his face.

Nine stories narrated by Pertie and one by Jeeves. In an American voice for easy listening by Americans with occasional American words used for more obscure English ones with a bit of the halting style of comic dialogue. Number two in the Jeeves series.

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more.

The ancient story and legend of Odysseus's return home.

An intriguing ingenious tale of intrigue and robbery in a remote California island.

The Art of War is the most famous and longest-lasting book on the practice of war. The book does not mince words: war is about winning; it is not a gentleman's game; it is about using every means at one's disposal to tip the odds in one's favor. Of the centuries, this book has been used by military figures, war departments, business people, educators, and politicians, to name a few. This is the original work without additional editorial comment.

"The Queen of Spades" is the best known and probably the best of all Russian short stories. It confronts the great riches of a few and the impoverishment of the many in the form of the assistant to the fabulously rich and old Countess; Hermann, who seeks great wealth through any means; and the countess's knowledge of how to win one's fortune on three cards. The denouement is worthy of being considered one of the finest in literature.

This Harvard Business Review (HBR) article focuses on Ted Levitt’s classic question, "What Business Are You In?" and what are you doing about it? He provides the classic example of why the Canadian railroads succeeded in the mid-20th century while the American ones faltered. The Canadians identified their business as transportation unlike the Americans who narrowly focused on being railroads.

A deep American South novel about a black & white intertwined in a relationship living in one house with various goings-on Southern style.

Why Democrats have adopted 20/80 losing issues to lose until they change their ways.

Why the Republicans will presumably win forever.

Advice on how to land a man.

Advice on how to land a man.

Advice about how to reinvent yourself for new work.

Brett Swartz describes how to retain the highest percentage of your wealth through deferring capital gains taxes through Deferred Sales Trusts or Delaware 1031 Exchanges.

Smith elevates one’s thinking about how to help others to have a better life for yourself, providing the practical tools to do so.

Financial advisor expert Seth Greene describes how to make you invaluable to clients, leverage your expertise, market to acquire them, expand your clients through marketing, gifting for purpose, enriching their children, and more.

An expert advisor and podcaster with over 63 podcasts & 100s of customers who he runs their podcasts for them advises how to get started for free and build your own platform slowly and cheaply before expanding your effort to earn more and more advertiser money.

A classic tale of the state preventing recourse from their citizens for wrongs done to them. A metaphor like Orwell's 1984. Moving, frightening, and pure Kafka. A must listen.