First Friday Book Synopsis

The New York Times has published its list of best-selling business books for August, 2022.  Yes, Atomic Habits by James Clear is still, yet again, at the top spot

Yet again…still…for such a long time now…the #1 book on the list is Atomic Habits by James Clear. It is a very good book; truly helpful and useful.  Read my blog post about this book here: Atomic Habits by James Clear – My Six Lessons and Takeaways.

Of the ten books on this month’s list, I have presented synopses of five of these books at the First Friday Book Synopsis, based in Dallas – Atomic Habits, Dare to Lead, Outliers, Extreme Ownership, andPrinciples for Dealing with the Changing World Order.  And my former colleague, Karl Krayer, presented one other – Thinking, Fast and Slow.

And, I will be presenting The End pf the World is Just the Beginning at the September First Friday Book Synopsis.

So, of these ten best sellers, we will have presented synopses of seven of them by the first week of September.

As I have written frequently, not all best sellers are worthy of your time.  And not all books worthy of your time are best sellers.  But, of these six that we have already presented, I can say with confidence that if you read them all, you would learn, your horizons would  \be expanded, and you would be better equipped to tackle the business and personal productivity challenges of the moment.

Here are the ten books on this month’s New York Times list of best-selling business books.  Click over to their site for links to reviews of two of the books.

#1 – Atomic Habits by James Clear

#2 – Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

#3 – James Patterson by James Patterson

#4 – The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan

#5 – Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

#6 – Scars and Stripes by Tim Kennedy and Nick Palmisciano

#7 – How Are You, Really? By Jenna Kutcher

#8 – Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

#9 – Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

#10 – Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

I presented my synopsis of this book early in 2019

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Each synopsis comes with my comprehensive, multi-page synopsis handout, plus the audio recording of my presentation delivered at the First Friday Book Synopsis in Dallas.