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Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful Companies by Charles G. Koch

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Charles Koch describes his management philosophy, Market Based Management, how it has evolved over time, and how it has been put to use at Koch Industries. MBM emphasizes Principled Entrepreneurship over corporate welfare, virtue over talent, challenge over hierarchy, comparative advantage over job title, and rewards for long-term value creation over managing to budgets.

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Tiger Woods by Armen Keteyian, Jeff Benedict

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Summary A deep look into Tiger’s history, family, career and lifestyle, helping us understand how someone can become so dominant in their sport and some of the costs it takes to get there Key Takeaways Tiger’s parents guarded him fiercely when he was young. Tiger spent more time alone practicing or watching TV than playing […]

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Impro: Improvisation and the Theater by Keith Johnstone

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Summary “This is, in a nutshell, the Johnstone doctrine: you are not imaginatively impotent until you are dead; you are only frozen up. Switch off the no-saying intellect and welcome the unconscious as a friend: it will lead you to places you never dreamed of, and produce results more ‘original’ than anything you could achieve […]

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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes by Frans de Waal

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Summary An incredible insight into the takeovers and social organization of a chimp colony in the Netherlands. “The behavior of our closest relatives provides clues about human nature. Apart from political maneuvering, chimpanzees show many behaviors that parallel those of humans, from tool technology to intercommunity warfare. In fact, our place among the primates is […]

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Am I Being Too Subtle: Straight Talk From a Business Rebel by Sam Zell

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Summary Sam Zell discusses what has made him successful in building his commercial real estate companies as well as launching the trillion dollar real estate investment trust and other companies in energy Key Takeaways Willing to be gruff in order to be direct. Has a sense of urgency and doesn’t understand why others don’t Willing to sacrifice […]

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Kiewit: An Uncommon Story by Jeffrey Rodengen

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Summary Kiewit Brothers Company was established in 1884 by Peter Kiewit and his brother Andrew but the main growth phase was under Peter Kiewit Jr. Growing from its roots of basic commercial building construction, after 125+ years it is now also in the transportation, mining, water resources, power, oil and gas, underground, electrical, and marine market segments, routinely completing projects for its […]

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Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

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Summary Leonardo was the original Renaissance Man, excelling in everything from botany to athletics to engineering and, of course, art. Isaacson took on this project because Leonardo is the epitome of making connections  across disciplines which is the basis for creativity, innovation and genius If you’d prefer to listen to this article, use the player below. You […]

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Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson

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Summary Human relations are often paradoxical and not logical and this book explains why many assumptions about people, relationships and “managing” we make are in fact false. “Paradoxes are seeming absurdities and people logically try to rationalize them but here we are going to try to suppress that in order to better understand real life […]

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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 by William Dalrymple

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Summary The history of the fall of the rulers of India up until the 19th century, the Mughals. Zafar came to control once the Mughals were already in decline but his talent created a court of unparalleled beauty. The British and Mughals came to devastating blows as the Mughals tried to keep their traditions and […]

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Below is the visual library for all the books I have summarized To access the searchable library, click here                                                                              […]