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In Don’t Drop the Mic (2021), best-selling author Bishop T.D. Jakes explores the art of communication and how the way we speak and interact with others can be part of our everyday ministries. He clarifies why our manner of speaking and the words we use matter, and offers practical advice on how to craft your message to connect with listeners, whether it's a simple email or a high-profile speech.

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Kim and Penn Holderness reveal their secrets to healthy communication and beneficial fights in Everybody Fights (2021). Using their marriage counselor’s advice, this couple learned how important it is to confront topics that they usually avoid, such as sexual intimacy, financial decisions, and other difficult topics regarding their conflicts.

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In Panic Attack (2021), physician and author Nicole Saphier exposes the hypocrisy and hysteria that have marked so much of the American pandemic response. For example, she explores how politicians were applauded for allowing ill-equipped nursing homes to accept COVID patients, resulting in a massive death toll in New York and New Jersey.

Wilson’s book, The Wreckage of My Presence (2021), is her unflinching thoughts and feelings about a smattering of subjects, from cults and spin classes (which aren’t all that different) to the reality of spiritual healers in Hollywood. But the book also dives into much deeper and intimate issues, like Wilson’s never-ending struggles with her weight as an actress, the pressures with raising children, and most prominently, the death of her mother.

In Out of the Cave (2021), Chris Hodges delves into the causes of depression and offers transformative hope and spiritual power to help us win the battle. Out of the Cave teaches us how to remove the stigma of depression and recognize that we're not alone; how our temperament and view of God influence how we deal with depression; and how to take a holistic approach to wellness - mind, body, and soul.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this summary of John Gordon’s The Energy Bus in 23 minutes or less. Positive people and positive teams manifest positive outcomes. The key ingredient? Positive energy. In The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy (2007), Jon Gordon explains how to cultivate positive energy in your life and career, which you then can share with your coworkers, customers, organization, team, friends, and family. Gordon uses the extended metaphor of a bus you are driving to make his points, hence the title.

Do you keep getting ever so close to making a sale, before the prospect declines? If so, it might benefit you to learn a secret or two about the sales profession. In Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale (1985, reissued 2004), you will learn several crucial tricks that will help you get to that close. Did you know that one of the main reasons salespeople don’t get their close is because they never actually ask their prospects if they want to buy? Ziglar helps you avoid this, and several other common mistakes.

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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (2019) covers the events between the founding of Uber and the ousting of its hard-driving CEO, Travis Kalanick. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, as well as previously disclosed documents, New York Times reporter Mike Isaac reveals the details behind the dramatic rise and fall of Uber.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Jason L. Riley’s Maverick in 23 minutes or less. Throughout history, the world has witnessed discriminations, hostilities, and injustices. It seems that no matter how much human beings evolve, racism will always be manifested in societies, and the fight against it is far deeper and more complicated than what activists, movements, and organizations like to acknowledge.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Jason Schreier's Press Reset in 23 minutes or less. For many of us, video games offer entertainment and leisure away from the worries of life and its obligations. But what happens behind the scenes of the video game industry? It’s not all fun and games.

No time to read? Get the main key ideas from this Summary of Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head in 23 minutes or less. Jennie Allen’s Get Out of Your Head (2020) offers faith-based tips and techniques for taking charge of thoughts that spin out of control. We tend to dwell on things that we wish were different, yet this merely deepens our emotional emptiness.

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In Barbarians at the Gate (1989), Bryan Burrough and John Helyar narrate the chaotic battles that ensued after news broke that food and tobacco giant RJR Nabisco was seeking an LBO as a solution for the drop in stock prices caused in part by CEO Ross Johnson’s restlessness and gravitation towards extreme actions and risks. What followed was a sequence of shocking surprises and interferences. The end result was the biggest deal done to date, although it wasn’t Johnson who harvested its glory.