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Radical Candor

Radical Candor: Be a Great Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani September 30, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
The Dog That Almost Died β€” And What It Teaches About Leadership Kim Scott was walking her new puppy through the streets of New York when a stranger stopped her.…
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The Psychology of Money

The Psychology of Money: Why Smart People Make Terrible Financial Decisions

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 12, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel (2020) "Doing well with money has a little to do with how smart you are and…
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Thinking Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow: The Two Systems That Control Your Decisions

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani June 24, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
🧠 Thinking, Fast and Slow β€” Daniel Kahneman The Nobel Prize-winning masterclass on why your brain lies to you β€” and how to catch it in the act Let me…
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Deep Work - Focused Success

Deep Work: Why Most People Will Never Achieve Real Focus

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani May 13, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World β€” Book Review Author: Cal Newport | Published: 2016 | Pages: 296 Genre: Productivity / Professional Development The Crisis…
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Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits: The System Behind Lasting Change

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani March 25, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
Atomic Habits: Why Tiny Changes Deliver Remarkable Results "You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." This one sentence changed…
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The Diary of a CEO

The Diary of a CEO: 33 Laws of Business and Life

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani January 20, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English From a Bedroom in Plymouth to the Dragons' Den: The Audacity of Steven Bartlett Imagine dropping out of university at 22, launching a company from your bedroom, and…
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Essentialism

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani January 20, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English "If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will." Read that again. Let it settle. Because that single sentence β€” from the opening pages of Essentialism: The Disciplined…
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The Obstacle Is the Way

The Obstacle Is the Way: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani January 20, 2024Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ The Obstacle Is the Way β€” Ryan Holiday (2014) Marcus Aurelius, the last of Rome's great emperors, wrote in his private journal: "The impediment to action advances action. What…
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The 4-Hour Body

The 4-Hour Body: Hacking the Human Body

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani October 30, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English Tim Ferriss claims he gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days. Thirty-four pounds. In four weeks. If your first instinct is to call that absurd β€” good.…
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Reinventing You

Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
Dorie Clark (2013) There was a time when a career reinvention was a once-in-a-lifetime event. You picked a profession at twenty-two, climbed the ladder for thirty years, and retired with…
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Start with Why - Leadership

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English Version Here's a question for you: why did Apple become Apple β€” and not just another computer company? Why did Martin Luther King Jr. lead the civil rights…
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The Righteous Mind

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English Version If you've ever been in a political argument and thought, "How can they possibly believe THAT?" β€” this book will change everything. Not because it will tell…
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Crucial Conversations

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English The Conversation You've Been Avoiding Think about it. Right now. There's a conversation you've been putting off. Maybe it's with your boss β€” about the raise you deserved…
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Daring Greatly - Vulnerability

Daring Greatly: Embracing Vulnerability to Transform Our Lives

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English The Researcher Who Tried to Outsmart Vulnerability β€” and Lost In 2010, BrenΓ© Brown walked onto a TED stage in Houston and did something that researchers aren't supposed…
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Getting to Yes

Getting to Yes: The Harvard Method for Principled Negotiation

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ The Book That Invented Modern Negotiation Here's a question for you: when was the last time you negotiated something? If you're thinking "I don't really negotiate," I have news…
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Drive - Motivation

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
What If Everything You Know About Motivation Is Wrong? Here's a puzzle that will mess with your head β€” and possibly change how you think about work, rewards, and human…
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Five Dysfunctions of a Team

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English "Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare."β€” Patrick Lencioni, The Five…
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Team of Teams

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English They Were Losing. And They Shouldn't Have Been. In 2003, General Stanley McChrystal took command of the Joint Special Operations Command β€” the most elite military force on…
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The Power of Relationships

The Power of Relationships: Lessons from Never Eat Alone

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English Version The Loneliness Paradox Here's a strange truth about the world we live in: we have more "connections" than any generation before us β€” and yet, we've never…
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Emotional Agility

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English Version When Susan David was fifteen years old, growing up in apartheid-era South Africa, her father died. The adults around her did what well-meaning adults often do β€”…
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Body Language

What Every BODY Is Saying: Decoding Body Language

Posted by By Marcelo Galvani August 13, 2023Posted inBook Reviews
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ English The FBI Agent Who Learned to Read People Before He Could Read Words In 1960, an eight-year-old Cuban boy arrived in the United States. He didn't speak a…
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