Takeaways from Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Peter Lorange
Ruthless, manipulative, selfish, but also highly gifted… much has been said about Uber’s founder, Travis Kalanick. In Super Pumped: The...
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Takeaways from Jim Mattis and Bing West’s Call Sign Chaos by Peter Lorange
Four-Star General Jim Mattis, who retired from military service in 2013, narrates his more-than-40-year military career as well as his...
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Takeaways from Steven Johnson’s Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most
Making good decisions is challenging for everyone, especially when those decisions relate to important matters, for which the...
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Takeaways from Raj Kumar’s The Business of Changing the World by Peter Lorange
The Business of Changing the World documents a recent series of important shifts in social entrepreneurship. Its author, Raj Kumar,...
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Takeaways from Walter R. Stahel’s The Circular Economy by Peter Lorange
The concept of a circular economy – which refers to reusing resources to avoid their depletion – is central to the debate on how to...
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Takeaways from Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Peter Lorange
In Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Scott Kupor provides a well-needed and clear view of the venture capital (VC) phenomenon, from both...
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Takeaways from Ruth Reichl’s Save Me the Plums (2019) by Peter Lorange
Featuring Ruth Reichl’s memoirs from her time as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine from 1999–2009 might strike some readers as quite...
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Takeaways from Daniel James Brown's The Boys in the Boat (2013) by Peter Lorange
The Boys in the Boat chronicles the highly challenging journey of the eight-person U.S. rowing team that won Olympic gold in 1936 with a...
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Takeaways from Schmidt, Rosenburg, and Eagle’s Trillion Dollar Coach by Peter Lorange
Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt, Johnathan Rosenburg, and Alan Eagle deals with the managerial philosophy of Bill Campbell, a...
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Takeaways from Melinda Gates’ The Moment of Lift by Peter Lorange
Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and wife of Bill Gates, the founder and majority shareholder of Microsoft...
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Takeaways from Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Peter Lorange
Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is an important book on philosophy, but one that is hard to read! I finished this book with a...
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Takeaways from Howard Yu’s LEAP by Peter Lorange
This remarkable book provides important insights regarding how established complex organizations can reinvent themselves and prevent...
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Takeaways from Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño and Kazuo Ichijo’s Business Despite Borders
This book’s editors asked 29 leading academicians to address various reasons why business largely remains global, or “open” (i.e.,...
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Takeaways from Bernanke, Geithner, and Paulson’s Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons
The three people who were the most centrally involved in attempting to mitigate the fallout of the financial crisis of 2008, perhaps with...
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Takeaways from Roy Williams and Vic Pressier’s Preparing Heirs by Peter Lorange
In this short book, authors Williams and Pressier share a series of practical suggestions for how to successfully transmit family wealth...
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Takeaways from Yvon Chouinard's Let My People Go Surfing by Peter Lorange
Striving for quarterly profits and short-term performance may often come in conflict with environmental and social aspirations, such as...
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Takeaways from Bradley Tusk's The Fixer – My Adventures Saving Start-ups from Death by Politics
Bradley Tusk’s The Fixer is a controversial book about the interplay between individuals and politics. As the title suggests, the book...
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Takeaways from David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth by Peter Lorange
This book deals with the major effects that we can expect from climate change and global warming. It was written by the departing editor...
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Takeaways from T. McCullough and K. Whitaker’s Wealth of Wisdom: The Top 50 Questions Wealthy
McCullough and Whitaker spent more than a year questioning wealthy individuals about their major concerns; as a result, they identified...
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Takeaways from George Magnus’s Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy by Peter Lorange
George Magnus is an associate at Oxford University’s China Centre, a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies,...
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