The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Beneath the story about three strangers who wear clothes with cheesy slogans on them and crave becoming world-class for unknown reasons hides a simple message: get up at 5 am. In essence, the 5 AM Club is a collection of widely popular quotes connected by a tasteless soap-opera-like fairytale that will make you want to punch someone in the face – most probably the author, Robin Sharma, for writing this. The Core Idea: […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Not a business book, but a book about building long-lasting human-centric institutions with soul and purpose. Built to Last provides an in-depth overview of the best practices used by exceptional companies, most of them established more than 100 years ago – some of these are P&G, Sony, and Disney. The award-winning authors discuss the core values of these organizations and how they’ve managed to survive and thrive for so long. The Core Idea: […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: In The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen, explains in great length, how and why well-established firms, mostly in the IT sector, fail. How these close to god-like companies are unable to innovate when changes in the world happen and are therefore outrun by smaller companies who, thanks to their flexibility and fresh perspective, spot these so-called disruptive technologies (think: iPhone and Tesla) and win the big game. The Core Idea: The world is […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Basically, do’s and don’ts on how to be successful and how to keep going despite the failures with a pinch of good old humor. In this long titled book, Scott Adams, the creator of the famous Dilbert comic strip, shares personal elements of his life, the huge list of failed businesses, and what he learned along the way. Things like why passion is bullshit and how to build a system. But whilst most […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: The title Fooled by Randomness refers to our tendency to mistake luck for skills and to our misguided conviction that access to more information means higher success ration. Nassim Nicholas Taleb shatters the theory that hard work, alone, will guarantee you fame and fortune. According to his views in this book, you need a dose of luck in addition to your expertise to gain prosperity. The Core Idea: When we don’t have all […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: A masterpiece by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi where, through sharing observations from studies and interviews conducted over a long period of time, he aims to explain under what circumstances our minds experience what he calls optimal experience. While the author with a ridiculously hard to spell last name talks mainly about how to direct our attention towards one thing so we can better concentrate (i.e. enter the flow state) the main outcome he wants for […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Often people say that we should specialize in one specific field if we want to succeed – “Find your niche,” they say. However, life is not that simple. Laser focusing on one domain will get you to a certain point but if you want to thrive in this “wicked” world, you should have a range of skills. Packed with a lot of supporting case studies, Range by David Epstein explains that true success […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: A book about why you should go to bed early and never, ever deprive yourself from sleep because some nasty side effects might/will occur. Some of these are: you become less effective, less productive, less friendly, attractive and more vulnerable to diseases. Walker, a.k.a the sleep dude, talks in length about various researches he and his friends did in the field of sleep. The text mainly aims to scare you by showcasing disturbing […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: The book expands on the main idea from the famous Picasso quote, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Full of graphics and illustrations, this read by Austin Kleon showcases short insightful tips that will motivate you to start your own project and stay creative. The Core Idea: Steal ideas from others. Nothing is original. You don’t have to be a genius to create something. You simply need to steal great ideas from great […]

The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Are you sick of your 9 to 5 job and your boss constantly nagging you about stuff? You feel overworked and severely underpaid? Tim Ferris is your go-to guru. This book offers step-by-step instructions that will help you work less and earn more so you can have more time in your life to travel and spend time with your family. The Core Idea The book is all about helping you join the New […]