by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few books have been reduced to their most quotable ideas as thoroughly as Viktor E. Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning. It is frequently presented as a book about staying positive, choosing one’s attitude, or discovering purpose through suffering. Those descriptions...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 20, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Human beings have always faced uncertain futures, but Peter L. Bernstein argues that they have not always understood uncertainty in the same way. In Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1996, Bernstein traces a long...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Extreme Ownership is often reduced to a single command: stop blaming other people and take responsibility. That captures the provocative starting point of Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s leadership philosophy, but it does not capture the complete book. Across twelve...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 12, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
A professional reputation used to be built largely inside institutions. Employers, trade associations, publishers, conference organizers, journalists, and established networks decided whose expertise became visible beyond an immediate circle. Digital media weakened...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 5, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Seth Godin’s Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, first published by Portfolio in 2008, is a short book built around an unusually large claim: leadership is no longer something that belongs primarily to executives, politicians, founders, or people with formal authority....
