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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
    Collaborate and Embrace Change
    Team of Teams
    Team of Teamsby Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell Collaborate and Embrace Change

    US Army General (Ret.) Stanley McChrystal calls upon his lifetime of military leadership to provide fables and tales of leadership, all to help you appreciate…

  • Review
    The Haves and the Won’t-Gets
    Trade Wars Are Class Wars
    Trade Wars Are Class Warsby Michael Pettis and Matthew C. Klein The Haves and the Won’t-Gets

    Economists Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis reveal the surprising – and seldom reported – connections between ever-growing inequality and how governments deal with their trade surpluses.

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    Emotional Leadership
    Primal Leadership
    Primal Leadershipby Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis and Annie McKee Emotional Leadership

    Leadership scholars and authors Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee present a detailed breakdown of what makes up sound emotional leadership – the only…

  • Review
    Controlling the Internet
    The Great Firewall of China
    The Great Firewall of Chinaby James Griffiths Controlling the Internet

    CNN’s James Griffiths offers a modern horror story – the rapid conversion of China’s internet into a seamless tool of state repression, conformity and oppression.

  • Review
    Sail Into Wide Open Waters
    Blue Ocean Strategy
    Blue Ocean Strategyby W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Sail Into Wide Open Waters

    W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s updated, bestselling business classic guides you from stormy seas of constant competition to the calm waters of market dominance.

  • Review
    Lifequakes
    Life Is in the Transitions
    Life Is in the Transitionsby Bruce Feiler Lifequakes

    Best-selling author Bruce Feiler offers sound, compassionate strategies for dealing with lifequakes: powerful events that reshape your identity and your world.

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    Continuous Feedback Loop
    Founder Brand
    Founder Brandby Dave Gerhardt Continuous Feedback Loop

    Marketer Dave Gerhardt explains how and why you should make a company's founder into an effective personal brand.

  • Review
    Value and Outcomes
    Sooner Safer Happier
    Sooner Safer Happierby Zsolt Berend, Simon Rohrer, Jonathan Smart and Myles Ogilvie Value and Outcomes

    Jonathan Smart, agility practitioner, thought leader, speaker and coach, offers a blueprint of the mind-set you need to embrace Agile or Lean.

  • Review
    Blood and Money
    Nine Pints
    Nine Pintsby Rose George Blood and Money

    Esteemed journalist and author Rose George illuminates how blood functions in the body and in the worldwide marketplace.

  • Review
    A Better World
    Factfulness
    Factfulnessby Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund A Better World

    Hans Rosling, co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, and his coauthors prove that today's world is more benign than you would believe.