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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
    Immelt Looks Back
    Hot Seat
    Hot Seatby Jeff Immelt Immelt Looks Back

    Jeff Immelt, who was CEO of General Electric for 16 years, offers a surprisingly candid, feisty memoir.

  • Review
    Build Your Skills
    Lead to Win
    Lead to Winby Carla A. Harris Build Your Skills

    Author, speaker, investment banker – and gospel singer – Carla A. Harris details what skills today’s leaders must develop, now and in the future.

  • Review
    Save the World
    Earth for All
    Earth for Allby Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per Espen Stoknes Save the World

    The authors provide numerous, well-conceived, data-based solutions to oncoming, existential threats to human life.

  • Review
    Think Less Live More
    Live More Think Less
    Live More Think Lessby Pia Callesen Think Less Live More

    Metacognitive therapist offers techniques and exercises for avoiding rumination that can spur depression.

  • Review
    Solve Client Problems
    P3 Selling
    P3 Sellingby Greg Nutter Solve Client Problems

    The P3 Selling approach overcomes many of the obstacles that make B2B selling such a challenge.

  • Review
    Applying Empathy
    The Empathy Factor
    The Empathy Factorby Marie R. Miyashiro Applying Empathy

    Fortune 500 Consultant Marie Miyashiro explains the virtues of empathy and how to build an empathetic – and thus more effective – workplace.

  • Review
    Learning Leadership Lessons
    How Leaders Learn
    How Leaders Learnby David Novak Learning Leadership Lessons

    Use the principles of active learning to enhance your leadership skills.

  • Review
    Putting It Bluntly
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckby Mark Manson Putting It Bluntly

    Mark Manson wants the generations whom social media and consumer culture affect most to question what they see and believe, to grow up, and to…

  • Review
    No Time to Spare
    Blitzscaling
    Blitzscalingby Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh No Time to Spare

    Toss what you know about strategy and start running.

  • Review
    A Sincere, Pugnacious Enigma
    Joe Biden
    Joe Bidenby Evan Osnos A Sincere, Pugnacious Enigma

    National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Evan Osnos examines President Joe Biden’s personality and history, both personal and political.