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Business & Finance Book Summaries

The most essential part of achieving autonomy includes financial freedom. Today, that means understanding:

  • how a business functions,
  • how capital flows,
  • how to automate and delegate tasks,
  • how to create value and,
  • how to scale your business operations

The following business & finance book summaries will help put you on the path toward financial freedom and autonomy.

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Your Money Or Your Life Book Summary, Review, Notes

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez is a program book that teaches you how to look at the modern way of reaching cash by following the phrase much is better and changing this thinking into the knowledge of enough.   Book Title: Your Money Or Your LifeAuthors: Vicki Robin &

Crucial Conversations book cover

Crucial Conversations Book Summary, Review, Notes

Our success in life depends on how we can build good relationships. Some individuals appear to be more adept than others at negotiating better quality outcomes (for all) because they engage with people as opposed to working through other individuals.   They are able to have conversations that are both more in-depth and more honest,

How to Talk to Anyone Book Summary, Review, Notes 

How to Talk to Anyone written by Leil Lowndes, gives you 92 pieces of advice that will improve your social skills at the top level. By following this advice, you can become that one person in your crowd who always gets whatever he wants – thanks to the small, simple secrets.   Book Title: How

Radical Candor book cover

Radical Candor Book Summary, Review, Notes

If you want to get rid of the world’s bad bosses, you are on the right track. Following four years of writing and working experience at the most prestigious companies in the world, the author Kim Scott offers honest guidance and practical suggestions on how to love your work and co-workers. Whether you manage one

The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team book cover

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Summary, Review, Notes

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is a book that helps struggling teams perform better. In it, Lencioni points out the five main dysfunctions that every team faces at one point and provides solutions to them. The dysfunctions are absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and

die with zero book cover

Die With Zero Book Summary, Review, Notes

The book “Die with Zero” written by Bill Perkins assists readers in living a life that is more meaningful by teaching them to take charge of their own finances and to make conscious decisions on how they spend their time, money, and energy. This book is full of useful advice, personal anecdotes, and examples from

Why Nations Fail book cover

Why Nations Fail Book Summary, Review, Notes

Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson is a book that answers on most common but rarely known things: why some countries were rich in the past and today are poor, and vice versa, how some countries became wealthy and prosperous, while some are still left behind?   Book Title: Why Nations

blue ocean strategy book cover

Blue Ocean Strategy Book Summary, Review, Notes

Blue Ocean Strategy is a book by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne published in 2004, yet just as relevant in the present. The book proposes the concept of red oceans and blue oceans.    Red oceans are the competitive market, where rivals try to capture their piece of market share and the industry rules

The Lean StartUp book cover

The Lean StartUp Book Summary, Review, Notes

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is about applying lean principles and agile methodologies to build and grow successful businesses by continuously testing, iterating, and learning from customers’ feedback.   Book Title: The Lean Startup – How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Innovation to Create Radically Successful BusinessesBook author: Eric RiesDate of reading: February 2023Rating: 8/10 Table

Good to Great Book Summary, Review, Notes

Good to Great Book Summary, Review, Notes

Good to Great is a book by Jim Collins that was worked on for five years with the purpose of describing how good companies make a transition to becoming great companies, while also discussing the reasons why many have failed to do so.   Book Title: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap