by Aseem Gupta | Jan 31, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
When Gary Vaynerchuk published Crush It! in 2009, the idea that an ordinary person could build a career around an online audience still seemed unconventional. By the time Crushing It! appeared in 2018, YouTube channels had become businesses, Instagram personalities...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 24, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
FISH! is one of those business books whose reputation has become simpler than the book itself. Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen are usually remembered for four short workplace principles—Choose Your Attitude, Play, Make Their Day, and Be Present—but...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 18, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Social skill is easy to describe in abstractions. Be confident. Listen carefully. Show interest. Make people comfortable. Speak clearly. The difficulty begins when someone who genuinely wants to improve asks the obvious next question: what, exactly, should I do...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 13, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! is easy to misremember as a book with one loud message: find your passion, work hard, and turn it into a business. That message is certainly there, delivered with the confidence and intensity that would become inseparable from Vaynerchuk’s...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 10, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is one of those rare novels whose central ideas have become almost more famous than the story that contains them. Phrases about following a “Personal Legend,” listening to one’s heart, recognizing omens, and trusting that the universe will...
