by Aseem Gupta | May 8, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Adam Grant’s Give and Take begins with a deceptively simple question: when people interact at work, is it better to maximize what you can get, keep every exchange balanced, or contribute more than you immediately receive? Conventional career advice often assumes that...
by Aseem Gupta | Apr 6, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable is built around a deceptively simple claim: organizations can possess talented people, strong funding, good technology, attractive opportunities, and still fail because their leaders do not...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 31, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Manifesto for a European Renaissance is a remarkably compressed attempt to construct an entire political worldview. Written by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier in 1999 and later published in the selected English-language 2012 Arktos edition, the book moves...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 29, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Albert Camus’s The Fall begins with an act of courtesy. In an Amsterdam bar called Mexico City, a cultivated Frenchman notices that a stranger cannot communicate with the Dutch bartender and offers to interpret for him. The gesture seems trivial, even generous, but...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 27, 2021 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Albert Camus’s The Plague begins with dead rats and ends with a warning. Between those two points, an ordinary Mediterranean city is closed against an epidemic, thousands of lives are reorganized by quarantine, and a small group of people discovers that there may be...
