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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
    Servant Leadership
    Leading with Grit and Grace
    Leading with Grit and Graceby Ashleigh Walters Servant Leadership

    Ashleigh Walters offers a detailed, direct guide to leading privately-held companies through crucial, modernizing cultural change.

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    Leap Into the Future
    Tarzan Economics
    Tarzan Economicsby Will Page Leap Into the Future

    Will Page offers a charming, idiosyncratic tour through the complexities of the digital marketplace and the need to keep up with it.

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    Collaboration Ups and Downs
    Smart Collaboration
    Smart Collaborationby Heidi K. Gardner Collaboration Ups and Downs

    Heidi K. Gardner brings fierce objectivity to her explanation of the good and the bad of collaboration.

  • Review
    Job Search and You
    Search in Plain Sight
    Search in Plain Sightby Somer Hackley Job Search and You

    Expert recruiter Somer Hackley details how to reach out to, maintain relationships with and get the best from job recruiters.

  • Review
    The Human Side of Lincoln
    And There Was Light:
    And There Was Light:by Jon Meacham The Human Side of Lincoln

    Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham presents an emotionally rich biography of Abraham Lincoln, offering a full and human portrait of the man who saved America.

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    Make Careful Choices
    Your Next Five Moves
    Your Next Five Movesby Patrick Bet-David Make Careful Choices

    Valuetainment founder Patrick Bet-David describes what it takes to think about your business like a chess master.

  • Review
    How Futures Function
    Back to the Futures
    Back to the Futuresby Scott Irwin and Doug Peterson How Futures Function

    Scott Irwin, the chair of agricultural marketing at the University of Illinois, disarmingly details the history, functions, and dysfunctions of agricultural futures markets.

  • Review
    Up and Down
    We Need to Talk About Inflation
    We Need to Talk About Inflationby Stephen D. King Up and Down

    Economist Stephen D. King — prolific author, senior economic adviser at HSBC, and columnist for the Evening Standard — details the historical and political causes…

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    Bring Out the Dead
    All the Living and the Dead
    All the Living and the Deadby Hayley Campbell Bring Out the Dead

    London broadcaster and journalist Hayley Campbell dissects the processes of taking care of the dead.

  • Review
    The Power of Nunchi
    The Power of Nunchi
    The Power of Nunchiby Euny Hong The Power of Nunchi

    Learn how to read a room and act accordingly with the aid of nunchi, an ancient Korean way of being.