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Category: Book Review

This is a blog post that includes a book review.  Hamilton Lindley writes book reviews about professional development books. A book review is descriptive and critical or evaluative account of a book.

Talking to Strangers Book Summary

Talking to Strangers Book Summary

Hamilton Lindley January 29, 2022 Book ReviewLeave a comment

Talking to Strangers is about how our assumptions on strangers are usually wrong. The book details how the highly-trained CIA officers can’t spot double agents and diplomats can’t understand their opponents. Judges who see the defendants are worse at spotting recidivism than computer algorithms.  We are awful at understanding strangers, …

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Navigating Difficult Conversations

Navigating Difficult Conversations

Hamilton Lindley August 8, 2021 Book Review / Influencing / LeadershipLeave a comment

Difficult conversations are, well, difficult. I struggled with difficult conversations all my life. In my childhood, conflict was constant. I can’t remember a day that my ears didn’t ring because my parents were yelling at each other. When I got older, I became their target. So avoiding tough conversations became …

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Never Split the Difference Book Summary

Never Split the Difference Book Summary

Hamilton Lindley August 16, 2020 Book Review / Influencing / Persuasion10 Comments

Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss explains in his book Never Split the Difference that negotiations are won by emotion instead of logic. Traditional negotiation techniques rely on rational arguments, removing the person from the problem. But that idea is against human nature. We are emotional creatures. Understanding that we …

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Extreme Ownership: How Navy SEALs Lead & Win Book Review

Extreme Ownership: How Navy SEALs Lead & Win Book Review

Hamilton Lindley March 16, 2020 Book Review / Leadership20 Comments

Applying special forces training to the boardroom, these Navy SEAL authors show that business and combat require similar leadership skills in this book. Extreme Ownership means that the leader is responsible for everything. The leader must own everything in his world. There is no one else to blame. The leader …

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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Book Review

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Book Review

hplindley April 30, 2019 Book Review / Leadership140 Comments

Daniel Pink explores how to become the master of your when. We assume that timing is an art. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is a science. He starts this book by describing the fluctuations of our mood during the day. There is a …

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To Sell is Human Book Review

To Sell is Human Book Review

hplindley March 3, 2019 Book Review / Persuasion302 Comments

Dan Pink shows that persuasion is critical to our survival in To Sell is Human. Selling is moving others. We move others by convincing them of our ideas, influencing them to follow our strategies, or persuading them to help on our projects. We are all in sales, even if we are not convincing someone to make a purchase.

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First, Break All the Rules Book Review

First, Break All the Rules Book Review

hplindley January 30, 2019 Book Review / Leadership47 Comments

This is a study from 80,000 managers. The best managers exist to serve their employees. They lead by exception and emphasize strengths over weaknesses,

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Start With Why Book Review

Start With Why Book Review

hplindley January 28, 2019 Book Review / Influencing76 Comments

Start With Why by Simon Sinek explains how to motivate yourself and others through asking why first.

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Thrive and Others Die Book Review

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Thrive and Others Die Book Review

hplindley January 27, 2019 Book Review / Persuasion39 Comments

Made to Stick explains how to make your ideas compelling by stories.

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The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success Book Review

The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success Book Review

hplindley January 23, 2019 Book Review / Leadership96 Comments

The Formula explains success by analyzing data.

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