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Book Summary: How To Change by Katy Milkman
The big ideas and best quotes from Katy Milkman's book How to Change. You'll learn the 8 traps that prevent you from changing and the antidotes that can help.
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Book Summary: Essentialism by Greg McKeown - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Buy | Read on Blinkist for Free ⭐ Toby's Rating: 6/10 - Recommended For: Overachievers3 Big Ideas 💡Book Summary Essentialism by Greg McKeown • By focusing on the few vital things over the trivial many, you can increase your contribution to the world. • Almost everything in life is noise. Very few things are essential. • If you don’t prioritise your life, someone else will.2 Most Tweetable Quotes 💬If you don’t prioritise your life, someone else will.Live by design, not by default.Toby's Top Ta
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Trillion-Dollar Coach Summary by Eric Schmidt et al. | Silicon Valley Coaching
An inside look at how the worlds biggest CEO's leverage coaching to improve. It is easy to assume that the most successful don't need coaching. This book highlights that no matter how successful you are, coaching can add value.
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Book Summary: Team Topologies | Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
The 3 big ideas, key quotes and takeaways from Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Learn how team structures shape software architecture and flow.
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Book Summary: Rapport by Emily Alison and Laurence Alison
Amazon Smile UK | Amazon Smile US When you purchase via Amazon Smile your chosen charity will get 0.5% donation⭐ Toby's Rating: 6/10 - Recommended For: Coaches and ManagersRapport is a book that we hope provides something for everyone. Whether seeking to make a new connection or to deepen an existing one, our hope is that it will help you build rapport. With this book, we set the bar for interpersonal skill and we challenge everyone, including ourselves, to uphold these principles with our love
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Book Summary: The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
Buy Making of a Manager on Amazon⭐ Toby's Rating: 8/10 - Recommended For: Managers3 Big IdeasA summary of the big ideas from The Making of a Manager What To Do When Everyone Looks To You by Julie Zhuo: • A Managers job is to build a team that works well together, support members in reaching their career goals, and create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently. • A manager is a specific role. Leadership is the particular skill of being able to guide and influence other people. While
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Book Summary: Power Of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The big ideas, best quotes and top takeaways from the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. You'll learn the importance of keystone habits and how they change your life.
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Book Summary: Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood
Context is critical to your habits. If the context remains stable—you keep living in the same place, you keep driving the same route to work, you keep sitting on your couch every evening—then you repeat past actions automatically. To build new habits, reduce the friction to do the behaviour.
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Book Summary: Think Again by Adam Grant | The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Think Again by Adam Grant is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency. In this summary, you'll learn the 3 big ideas, 2 best quotes and top takeaways.
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Book Summary: You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy | Big Ideas and Best Quotes
Listening is hard. This book shares the big ideas and best quotes from You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy. You'll learn how to listen to opposing views and why curiosity is the key.
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Book Summary: Upstream by Dan Heath | How to solve problems with Systems Thinking
The case studies and stories within this book are fantastic. They reveal concrete examples of how shifting upstream can have big results. For example, the story of how the dutch bicycle company. To reduce damage in transit delivered their bicycles in TV boxes. Amazing!
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Book Summary: The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier | Big Ideas and Best Quotes
The big ideas, best quotes and top takeaways from The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer. You'll learn the seven coaching habit questions that can be used to coach in 10 minutes or less. Essential reading for busy managers who want to build great teams.