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Get the main key insights from this summary of Brianna Wiest’s 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think in just a short listen.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Martha Beck’s The Way of Integrity in 23 minutes or less.

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When Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, started his company, it was so small that he was able to be with his employees every step of the way. He was guiding them into following his leadership principles, monitoring every decision they had to make. In 2004, when the company had grown far beyond its initial size, Robin Andrulevich from human resources began compiling a list of Amazon’s most important leadership principles. She interviewed the most valuable and successful leaders the company had, and ended up compiling 14 principles.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Jim Camp’s Start with No in 23 minutes or less. In Start with No (2002), Jim Camp offers tactics and methods to help you reap better results from your negotiations, thus increasing your profit. Camp pinpoints the mistakes the majority of people fall into when negotiating and suggests the right ways to act instead. Start with No teaches you how to come out on top as a negotiator, leaving no gains on the table.

Get the main key insights from this summary of Nedra Glover Tawwab’s Set Boundaries, Find Peace in just a short listen.

Do you keep getting ever so close to making a sale, before the prospect declines? If so, it might benefit you to learn a secret or two about the sales profession. In Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale (1985, reissued 2004), you will learn several crucial tricks that will help you get to that close. Did you know that one of the main reasons salespeople don’t get their close is because they never actually ask their prospects if they want to buy? Ziglar helps you avoid this, and several other common mistakes.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Joel Osteen’s Peaceful on Purpose in 23 minutes or less. In stressful situations, always remind yourself of the phrase “All is well.” If you know that God is by your side, and he is all-knowing about the path you’re on, no matter what happens, you must know that it’s for your good.

No time to read? Get the main key insights from this Summary of William Green’s Richer, Wiser, Happier in 23 minutes or less. A few key insights from Chapter 1: According to Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, “A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor it”. There are several winning principles that you can clone when it comes to making successful investments.

Get the main key insights from this Summary of Felix Dennis’ How to Get Rich in just a short listen.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of Marie Forleo’s Everything Is Figureoutable in 23 minutes or less. In Everything Is Figureoutable (2019), Marie Forleo provides the ultimate shortcut to taking charge of our life and transforming it, revealing the single most important belief to cultivate when it comes to creating our own success. By shifting our perspective and understanding that everything in life can be figured out - that is, if we want it to be - we step into our power and begin taking responsibility for our own journey.

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (2019) covers the events between the founding of Uber and the ousting of its hard-driving CEO, Travis Kalanick. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, as well as previously disclosed documents, New York Times reporter Mike Isaac reveals the details behind the dramatic rise and fall of Uber.

As a small business owner, your business is the clearest reflection of who you are and what you want from life. Michael E. Gerber explains this and more in The E-Myth Revisited. Step by step, Gerber shows how to shift your focus away from what your business is producing, and toward how well your business is producing it for your customers.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Jason Schreier's Press Reset in 23 minutes or less. For many of us, video games offer entertainment and leisure away from the worries of life and its obligations. But what happens behind the scenes of the video game industry? It’s not all fun and games.

In Barbarians at the Gate (1989), Bryan Burrough and John Helyar narrate the chaotic battles that ensued after news broke that food and tobacco giant RJR Nabisco was seeking an LBO as a solution for the drop in stock prices caused in part by CEO Ross Johnson’s restlessness and gravitation towards extreme actions and risks. What followed was a sequence of shocking surprises and interferences. The end result was the biggest deal done to date, although it wasn’t Johnson who harvested its glory.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key ideas from Summary of Shefali Tsabary’s A Radical Awakening in 23 minutes or less. Buy now to get the main key ideas from Shefali Tsabary's A Radical Awakening.

No time to listen? Get the main key insights from this summary of Andy Stanley’s Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets in 23 minutes or less. A few key insights from chapter one: Life’s all about making choices, every day. We all have moments when we aren't sure what to do. Some of us make quick decisions, while others can never have enough information before making a decision. But, in the end, we are where we are as a result of our choices.

No time to read/listen to the original book? Get the main key insights from Summary of Josh Hawley’s The Tyranny of Big Tech in 23 minutes or less.