by Aseem Gupta | Jul 31, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Richard Koch’s Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More begins with an idea that sounds almost suspiciously attractive: most people could improve their lives not by doing more, but by doing much less of the wrong things and much more of...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 29, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John C. Maxwell’s Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow’s Success looks at first like a productivity book built around an obvious proposition: what you do today affects what happens tomorrow. Yet Maxwell’s actual project is much broader. He is not...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 28, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Og Mandino’s The Greatest Salesman in the World looks, from its title, like a manual about selling. It is not one in the conventional sense. Readers looking for prospecting systems, negotiation tactics, closing techniques, pricing strategies, or scripts will...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 27, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Benjamin Hoff’s The Tao of Pooh begins with an unlikely proposition: perhaps the “Bear of Very Little Brain” understands something that cleverer people routinely miss. Instead of introducing Taoism through formal metaphysics, historical surveys, or line-by-line...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 26, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth novel in J.K. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series, but it is also the point at which the series changes its scale, emotional register, and understanding of danger. The first three novels repeatedly bring Harry...
