by Aseem Gupta | Jun 16, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Mark Cuban’s How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It is easy to mistake for a conventional business book. Its title sounds like it should contain a neatly ordered entrepreneurial system, perhaps a sequence of rules that explains how to...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 14, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages has become so culturally familiar that its central vocabulary often circulates independently of the book itself. People casually identify themselves as “quality time people,” joke that their love language is food,...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 10, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Seth Godin’s We Are All Weird is easy to mistake for a cheerful argument about celebrating eccentricity. Its title encourages that reading, as does Godin’s deliberately provocative vocabulary. Yet the book is making a more ambitious claim. It is about what happens...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 7, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Sam Cawthorn’s Bounce Forward: How to Transform Crisis into Success begins with a problem more difficult than ordinary self-help language about resilience usually acknowledges. What happens when “bouncing back” is literally impossible? After a catastrophic car...
by Aseem Gupta | May 26, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Keith Ferrazzi’s Never Eat Alone is often described as a networking book, but that description makes it sound narrower—and more transactional—than the book Ferrazzi actually wrote. His real subject is social capital: the relationships through which information, trust,...
