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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
    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.

  • Review
    Take Care of Your People
    Wellbeing at Work
    Wellbeing at Workby Jim Harter and Jim Clifton Take Care of Your People

    Gallup polling aficionados and prolific authors Jim Clifton and Jim Harper analyze data derived from more than 100 million interviews to help leaders improve employee health.

  • Review
    More than a Country Icon
    She Come By It Natural
    She Come By It Naturalby Sarah Smarsh More than a Country Icon

    Sarah Smarsh offers a biography of Dolly Parton covering her cultural, political and business impact.

  • Review
    Don’t Quit
    Make Your Bed
    Make Your Bedby William H. McRaven Don’t Quit

    Admiral William H. McRaven offers aphoristic life advice underscored by a Navy officer’s viewpoint.

  • Review
    You Are Not Your Thoughts
    The Mountain Is You
    The Mountain Is Youby Brianna Wiest You Are Not Your Thoughts

    Self-help poet and best-selling author Brianna Wiest offers a blueprint for escaping your overactive mind.