Give and take
The topic of the book is leadership, a Revolutionary Approach to Success. Until now, there have been three elements to success: hard work, talent and opportunity. Grant includes one more: generosity. It is...
Psychology
From Temperament to character
Leadership can only be virtuous. If it is not, it is not leadership. When the ancient Greeks discussed leadership, they emphasized the virtues of their leaders. They could not imagine leadership without...
The Power of Habits
The writer graduated from Yale and Harvard Business School; he is a prestigious journalist who worked at the New York Times. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children.
The aim of the...
Ego is the enemy
The goal of the book is to show how the ego opposes personal and business development and, in general, all types of human growth. The author is an American writer dedicated to advising large companies. He...
Making Grateful Kids
The book is for parents, teachers and educators. The authors are parents and professors of psychology at the University of California and want to transmit principles and practical strategies to educate in...
Surrounded by Idiots
This book is an excellent aid to understanding - and making oneself understood - by the people we work with. It deals with professional work, but its ideas can easily be applied to other areas of life:...
Bonds that make us free
It is a great book for self-knowledge and in particular for personal relationships and the emotions associated with them. The author encourages us to recognize with honesty that each one is primarily...
The Gifts of Imperfection
"The Gifts of Imperfection" sums up the message of this book. In a world full of comparisons, competitiveness and stress, it is necessary to take a step back and ask ourselves what we really want and where...
How Fears work: culture of fear in the 21st century
Frank Furedi, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Kent, studied the issue of fear in our culture as early as 1997 in his Culture of Fear and has now deepened his analysis. It is a book...
Humour
Interesting essay on humor, laughter, jokes and some irony. Laughter is a body language while some forms of humor are mainly intellectual; also humor needs an object which laughter does not need. The book...