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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
    Empathy and Warmth
    The Excellence Dividend
    The Excellence Dividendby Tom Peters Empathy and Warmth

    Business advice titan Tom Peters explains that the human element drives excellence, and it is the only thing that can temper an avalanche of tech.

  • Review
    Trust Your Instincts
    Blink
    Blinkby Malcolm Gladwell Trust Your Instincts

    Malcom Gladwell’s bestseller explores the relationship between rational thought and intuition, with surprising insights into both.

  • Review
    Melinda Gates’s Journey
    The Moment of Lift
    The Moment of Liftby Melinda Gates Melinda Gates’s Journey

    Melinda Gates describes how the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to break cycles of poverty, ignorance, disease and discrimination.

  • Review
    Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter
    How Ike Led
    How Ike Ledby Susan Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower, by His Granddaughter

    Dwight D. Eisenhower’s granddaughter Susan Eisenhower offers a politically and emotionally astute accounting of Ike’s life and career.

  • Review
    Leaders serve first.
    Leaders Eat Last
    Leaders Eat Lastby Simon Sinek Leaders serve first.

    TED star and best-seller Simon Sinek says companies need both hierarchy and collaborative leadership.

  • Review
    New Geopolitics
    The New Map
    The New Mapby Daniel Yergin New Geopolitics

    Pulitzer Prize–winner Daniel Yergin details today’s map of geopolitical power through the prism of energy and economics.

  • Review
    Seek the Bottom
    The Innovator's Solution
    The Innovator's Solutionby Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor Seek the Bottom

    Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor offer a follow-up to Christensen’s best-selling The Innovator’s Dilemma, presenting a clear blueprint to disruptive innovation.

  • Review
    Become Aware
    Aware
    Awareby Dr. Daniel Siegel M.D. Become Aware

    Best-selling clinical psychiatry professor Dr. Daniel J. Siegel offers a workable manual for understanding and practicing healthy mindfulness.

  • Review
    Think Like a Designer
    Designing Your Work Life
    Designing Your Work Lifeby Dave Evans and Bill Burnett Think Like a Designer

    Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, co-directors of the Stanford Life Design Lab, run down how designers approach problems and how you can get more out…

  • Review
    Traditional Values
    The Once and Future Worker
    The Once and Future Workerby Oren Cass Traditional Values

    Conservative Oren Cass argues the poor must pull themselves up and that US policy must bolster pride in simple, hard work.