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Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord
BATB score: 8/10 *BATB re-read Best as: a corporate leader’s guidebook on how to build an A-team Best for: so what kind of leader are you? BATB lingering thought: but can you build an A-team in a B-company? I guess… I can try.. I can only try. Best to: acknowledge the principles and later explore how to put them into practice Best quotes: “a business leader’s job is to create great teams that do amazing work on time” “Hiring talented people who are adults and want nothing
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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in The Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks [2022]
BATB score: 4/10 omg just shut up already! Best as: supposedly a guidebook through mid-life crisis; yet the only person who is definitely struggling to let go of their old successful self and is in the middle of mid-life crisis is Arthur C. Brooks - the author himself Best for: Arthur C. Brooks wrote this book to heal himself Best to: all the principles from Happiness Psychology Harvard University - just enroll, take the course, much more valuable than this book, and oh! yo
Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden
BATB score: 6/10 🥺 Best as: aww mannn, this book didn’t do it Frieda McFadden Best for: McFans - reading to show love for Frieda McFadden Best to: skip this book also can Best quote: “I’ve realized that the only person who is truly looking out for my best interests is myself.”
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NIGHT by Elie Wiesel [1956]
BATB score: 8/10 🥹 Best to: Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel December 10th 1986; memoir written in 1956 Best as: Jews, memoir, concentration camps, Hitler, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Man Search For Meaning, Anne Frank Best for: “How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” and aren’t we all doing the same right now Best quotes: “One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.” “And I tell him (my you
Strangers: a Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden
BATB score: 8/10 Best as: never seen a memoir about marriage divorce before - Prince Charming turned lawsuit plaintiff; lovers to strangers Best to: first world problem Prince Charming left housewife and three kids for a younger kitten out of the blue - took all the money + housing, doesn’t even want custody for the children Best for: do you really know your husband? Best quotes: “And doesn’t it all look different, wouldn’t your own story look different, if you knew how it wa
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