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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
    Productive Change
    Move Fast and Fix Things
    Move Fast and Fix Thingsby Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Productive Change

    Focus on excellence (and fast!) and effective change management.

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    Merge Your Intelligence With Your Soul
    Head & Heart
    Head & Heartby Kirstin Ferguson Merge Your Intelligence With Your Soul

    Leadership expert Kirstin Ferguson shows you how to combine your conscious rational skills and your soulful, reflexive understanding to be the best possible leader.

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    Not So Green
    The War Below
    The War Belowby Ernest Scheyder Not So Green

    Reuter’s senior correspondent Ernest Scheyder presents the complex trade-offs that emission-reducing technologies create.

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    Work Less, Earn the Same
    The 4 Day Week
    The 4 Day Weekby Andrew Barnes Work Less, Earn the Same

    New Zealand entrepreneur Andrew Barnes argues passionately for greater employee flexibility to save society, economies and the planet.

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    Accelerating Change
    Accelerate
    Accelerateby John P. Kotter Accelerating Change

    Older structures and processes won’t do anymore. No matter how you tinker with your existing reality, change expert John P. Kotter insists it won’t be enough.…

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    Advice from One Who Knows
    Secrets of Sand Hill Road
    Secrets of Sand Hill Roadby Scott Kupor Advice from One Who Knows

    Wildly successful venture capitalist Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, provides a welcome and straightforward guide for founders seeking venture capital.

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    Decisive Success
    What It Takes
    What It Takesby Stephen A. Schwarzman Decisive Success

    Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman, CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone, details his extraordinary career.

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    Toni Morrison Speaks
    The Source of Self-Regard
    The Source of Self-Regardby Toni Morrison Toni Morrison Speaks

    American icon, Nobelist Toni Morrison, offers her views on literature, race, politics and creative writing.

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    10,000 Hours?
    Outliers
    Outliersby Malcolm Gladwell 10,000 Hours?

    Bestseller Malcolm Gladwell explores what makes an outlier and the cultures that outliers outlie from.

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    Hidden Forces at Work
    Aroused
    Arousedby Randi Hutter Epstein M.D. Hidden Forces at Work

    Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH offers a lively, accessible discussion of the role of hormones in the human body, the history of medical discoveries relating to…