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David Meyer

David N Meyer is a content editor at getAbstract and author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You've Never Heard Of, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, The Bee Gees: The Biography, and other books. You can find his essays on film and music at davidnmeyer.com

  • Review
    More Effective Teams
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
    The Five Dysfunctions of a Teamby Patrick Lencioni More Effective Teams

    Bestseller and business consultant Patrick Lencioni uses a fable to explain how to engage teams, increase their commitment and make sure they meet their goals.

  • Review
    Advocating for Change that Can Restore Trust
    Mistrust
    Mistrustby Ethan Zuckerman Advocating for Change that Can Restore Trust

    Activist Ethan Zuckerman discusses the erosion of trust in American institutions and urges activists to bring about positive change.

  • Review
    Bezos Speaks!
    Invent and Wander
    Invent and Wanderby Jeff Bezos Bezos Speaks!

    Jeff Bezos offers a window into his thinking through his interviews, speeches and letters to shareholders.

  • Review
    Uber Exploits
    Uberland
    Uberlandby Alex Rosenblat Uber Exploits

    Data researcher Alex Rosenblat examines Uber’s claims of enabling drivers/entrepreneurs and discovers the dark economic truths underlying its worldwide success.

  • Review
    Free Like Jazz
    Yes to the Mess
    Yes to the Messby Frank Barrett Free Like Jazz

    Jazz musician and professor of management and global public policy Frank J. Barrett, PhD offers a valentine to jazz that guides leaders to embrace improvisation.

  • Review
    #MeToo
    She Said
    She Saidby Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey #MeToo

    Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey detail Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and how they uncovered a vast culture of abuse.

  • Review
    Advice for Millennials and Gen Zers
    Working Hard, Hardly Working
    Working Hard, Hardly Workingby Grace Beverley Advice for Millennials and Gen Zers

    Social media influencer Grace Beverley offers advice on time management, productive mind-sets, setting goals and giving yourself a break.

  • Review
    Yum Yum
    Why You Eat What You Eat
    Why You Eat What You Eatby Rachel Herz Yum Yum

    Neuroscientist Rachel Herz presents fascinating facts about food and your body and your psychology’s relationship to it.

  • Review
    Time Has Come Today
    Four Thousand Weeks
    Four Thousand Weeksby Oliver Burkeman Time Has Come Today

    Bestseller Olivier Burkeman offers a Zen method for accepting the passage and limitations of time.

  • Review
    Beware Facebook
    An Ugly Truth
    An Ugly Truthby Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang Beware Facebook

    Award-winning journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang detail Facebook’s inner workings, tactics and defenses with unsettling facts and insights.