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At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA is a memoir written by George Tenet and Bill Harlow. The chronicle focuses on the CIA happenings before and after the September 11 2001 Islamic terrorist attacks. In this memoir, George Tenet gives a real life account of his works as the director of the CIA and a chronological order of how things happened during his term as the chief of the Criminal Intelligence Agency. Tenet was the Director of the Criminal Intelligence Agency of the year 1997 to 2004. He writes a book where he recounts the ...

‘Globalization and its discontents’ is a book written with a sharp wit to provoke the reader into keenly reading and analyzing the whole book. The book is written to illuminate the truth about globalization and the major problems brought about by the whole process of globalization and market liberalization.
The author of the book has vast experience in dealing with world economics having worked at the US economic control body and the IMF. His book appears to draw most of its contents from personal experience while working at the top positions in the institutions.
The main argument of the ...

A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill

A saint on death row is a story that was written by an Irish-American author Thomas Cahill. In this tragic and heart wrenching story of a death row inmate known as Dominique Green, Thomas brings out the injustices and flaws that surround the American legal system. The issue of racism also comes up because the death row inmate (Dominique Green) was African American.

About the Author

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar born in New York in 1940 to Irish- American parents. Cahill grew up in Queens and the Bronx. He studied at Greek and Latin Literature, scripture and theology as well as medieval ...

Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline. New York: Broadway Business, 1997.
I was dreaming to read this book for several years and I found it excellent for clarity, content, and examples used by the author. I had moved through the book with lightning speed. I was able to remember main ideas due to the multiple details offered by the author which I found in the cases. Often, the authors of similar books draw banal examples. It was a nice surprise for me when I did not find any over-applied solutions in the book. I found the book very useful ...

Globalization can be defined as the increasing relationships in the globe concerning culture, economical activities and political influences. In economics, economic globalization refers to the unrestricted movement of goods and services across the national borders with little or no barriers. It has been argued that economic globalization can result in economic growth in developing and developed countries through specialization, reduced labor and technology importation and comparative advantage. Critics have challenged the idea of globalization by claiming that the people encouraging globalization only looks exaggerates the advantages and underestimates the costs of globalization. It is in this perspective that we ...

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Introduction. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie, is a book that has really stood the test of time. Initially written in the year 1936, the revised edition that is under review here is from 1981, copyrighted by Donna Carnegie (Mrs. Dale Carnegie). The book belongs to the genre of Self Improvement and talks about the basic principles that need to be followed to understand people that we deal with in our daily lives and excel in winning them. It is a book that educates people on becoming ...

Introduction

The book “Greed and Fear” is a very powerful account of the impacts of psychology on economics. This book takes an insight overview of the investor irrationalities and its effects on the market prices and returns. The author gives an account of how the effects contradict the efficient market hypothesis. According to the author, the phrase “hope and fear” gives a better description of the reactions and the behavior of different market players. From the book it can be established that all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence and emotion influence their judgment and actions. The author uses the latest psychological ...

On the brink: Inside the race to stop the collapse of the global financial system is an account of the events that took place prior to and during the global financial crisis and the federal governments’ efforts to save some of the major banks in the united states. It zips through Paulson’s career (with a political stint as an aide in the Nixon White House) and then concentrates on his extraordinary 30 months in treasury. When Hank Paulson (the then chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Goldman Sachs) joined the Bush administration as the treasury secretary of state July ...

Book Review – The Extraordinary Leader

Book Review – The Extraordinary Leader

The first edition of the book, which was published in 2002, drew rave reviews for the ground-breaking research on leadership. Their focus had been on balancing and maximizing the strengths as opposed to just correcting the errors. The second edition is completely revised with more global outlook and new chapters regarding the core topic of strengths.
Figure 1: The Leadership Tent Floor

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The book starts by listing the sixteen variables that form the significant unknowns upon which the leadership depends on. In order to demystify the leadership, they undertook an empirical research. Their empirical ...

35 Dumb Things Well-intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say that Widen the Diversity Gap by Maura Cullen (2008) provides valuable insight on the choice of words in communicating with people during the course of our daily life. Words have different meanings in different contexts and cultures. So we should know which words are acceptable and which words are offensive, and also the contexts and cultures where they are applicable. Those who want to maintain good personal relationships with people in their social and business circles should take special ...

“Thinking, fast and slow” by Daniel Kahneman was among the best-selling books of the year 2011. Kahneman is Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics for his work in prospect theory in 2002. He and his collaborator, Amos Tversky, one of the cognitive as well as mathematical psychologist from Israel, have revolutionized the way we think about economy in the book. This book has achieved numerous honors and awards such as New York Times’ one of the best books of 2011 and Best Book Award from National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Kahneman has humbly yet brilliantly and non-technically ...

The Ramayana

The Ramayana is an ancient mythological book written by Narayan R. K. It is a tale that forms an important Hindu Canon and is divided into four parts; the early on life of Rama, his exile, the abduction of Sita, and the defeat of Ravana and Rama’s coronation. It is a story about Rama, an Indian avatar whose wife Sita is abducted by a demon king known as Ravana. The story explores the life in India, human values, and the interaction between humans and the divine world. The Ramayana has become a part of Indian sacred literature that people learn from it ...

Summary of the highlights of the subject covered by the book

The book George Washington in the American Revolution by James Thomas Flexner is a book that covers the period of the revolutionary war in the United States of America. The book captures the key moments of George Washington; from the time of his selection as the commander of Continental Army to the moment he resigned and handed over his sword to the American Congress in the year 1783. The author covers that period and places much focus on the personal experience of George Washington in the army, while at the same time dwelling a little on the revolution in other colonies.
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Identify the author’s mission in writing this book.

The least effective is the first dream when the lieutenant has no idea of what to do and allows laxity in his camp. As a result, he loses the post and has ten soldiers killed and 28 wounded.
In order to accomplish his mission, the author assumes that all directions are war fronts and that every kind and good looking stranger is a possible threat to the camp. He also knows that he should prevent any strangers from learning of his troop whereabouts and if they do, he should hold them in custody (Swinton 13).
He validates these assumptions ...

Dale Carnegie’s Suggestions Related to Marketing

Dale Carnegie, through his famous book on building relationships, advises marketers to deal in an effective way with customers to win their minds. He puts forward certain simple principles that marketers often fail to use in their day to day interpersonal relationships with customers and fellow team members. The fundamental technique of handling customers, according to Carnegie, is avoiding criticism. Since the resentment caused by criticism disheartens others, a marketer should desist criticizing a customer or a competitor. For example, if a company openly criticizes or condemns a competitor, its action cannot harm the competitor in anyway. Instead, it compromises its own image and ...

Introduction

The book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell is about how we think without thinking. This can be further explained by illustrating that the choices made instantly in the blink of an eye without actually thinking why they are made. The world around us requires that decisions should be footnoted. This means that if we say how we feel about something we must be ready to elaborate about why we feel a certain way. Blink discloses that a quality of good decision maker is not who can spend time providing deliberate answers or process the information effectively but the one who has perfected ...

One of the most ancient books, the Art of War written by Sun-tzu in the sixth century BC still holds its value today. The wisdom and facts mentioned by Sun-tzu written in the context of military strategy apply not only to ancient militarism, but also to the daily conflicts, obstacles and goals of life. In the context of business, the Art of War is a guide that mirrors the competition between businesses and militaries. Successful CEO’s of world’s famous companies, namely, Chip Conley of Joie de Vivre and Larry Ellison of Oracle applied the concepts of “The Art ...

Introduction

In the past, the place of women in the society was only recognized as that next to the man. Her roles and responsibilities clearly defined as that of being a home-maker, the support for her husband, a mother to her children, nothing more, nothing less. Girls that eventually became women grew up with these facts as they were taught and instilled in them from a tender age hence did not expect any more from life. However, there are those that challenged these societal expectations. Questioned these roles and responsibilities that they were expected to live by. These individuals went against the grain ...

Book Review

Introduction
Farewell to Manzanar is a frank, and sometimes, heartbreaking story that many people living in the United States are not aware of. The events described in the book occurred during the World War II when American Japanese were sent to the internment camp after bombing Pearl Harbor. The author brought up several themes including economic and legal injustice done to peaceful Japanese Americans, survival requirements in the internment camps, contradictions inside families based on generational differences, and difficulties experienced by Japanese Americans when they aimed to rebuild their lives after being imprisoned in the camps.
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Chapter 1: Learning Objectives

- Define development, focusing on three elements of its scientific study.
Development is the scientific study of people’s lifespan changes, that is, from conception (womb) to death (tomb). It focuses on the systematic changes that occur over time among all individuals, and which explain continuities and discontinuities in life.
- List and describe the basic steps of the scientific method.
- Posing of the problem is done based on prior research, theory or observation.
- Formulating of a hypothesis refers to an educated prediction, which can be verified or tested.
- Testing of the ...

Book review Breach of Trust by Tom Coburn

In his book, Breach of Trust, Tom Coburn narrates some of his experience in the US House of representatives as a congressman. He is a former businessman and a practicing physician with equally ardent views about the congress, religion and implementation of the constitution. Tom Coburn is a true legislator and he even honored his pledge of serving for only three terms as a congressional representative then leave Washington. Breach of trust offers a candid look at the internal workings of congress, and why ‘Washington turns insiders into outsiders’. The reader’s are served with shocking behind-the-scenes stories and why the reforms that the country ...

Categories of employees’ complaints

(What are the specific things the employees are unhappy about? If you were to group their specific complaints together, how might you summarize the kinds of complaints the employees have? You are welcome to create the categories, describe the categories and then list the examples from the video.)

The most specific things the employees are unhappy about are low wages, poor working conditions, lack of interaction and communication with management, lack of investment in employees, lack of pleasant and enjoyable work environment, lack of feedback from managers concerning ideas and suggestions, etc. These complaints may be summarized in several ...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Analysis
Patrick Lencioni’s piece, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A leadership fable, is a must read book for managers and all stakeholders in a business organization. The book offers a rare insight into the concept of team works and lays down all the factors important to the success of a team work. The book explores the various theories on which managers can rely to facilitate effective team work within their various organizations. The book is very informative and addresses the most likely pitfalls that an organization is likely to face when enforcing a team work policy. The better part of the book ...

Book Introduction

There had been a lot of books that tackled the way how a company could excel in a certain field. There are books that exposed the mistakes that companies usually make while there are also other books that demand action done by these companies. In Jim Collins’ book titled “Good to Great”, there is no such thing as mistakes and mediocrity. For him, it’s the long term characteristics of a company that matter. There may be several companies who were genetically destined to become a large-scale enterprise in the future, but clearly, that is not the case for all companies. There are companies ...

Book Review: The Leadership Challenge by Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

First written in 1987 by two authors considered to be experts in the field of leadership, The Leadership Challenge has gone to become one the most trusted voices on the subject of leadership as well as an all time best seller leadership book. One of the reasons for this is that the authors, Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes, in the true spirit of leadership, have churned out regular revisions to their original work, continuously adding to and improving upon content based on the ongoing changes in the corporate environment. The classic’s fourth edition has been released ...