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explains both Ron Reagan and Bill Clinton

Revisado: 03-24-18

Loved it. Lousy recording quality. Extraordinary content. Would make a good addition to a standard high school Economics curriculum.

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Merely repeats Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends

Revisado: 05-25-17

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Providing original content.

What was most disappointing about Johnathon Richter’s story?

No original content. Grade-school level thinking. Childish, inaccurate views of business transactions.

What does Nicholas Wilde bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Clear diction.

What character would you cut from The Tactical Guide to Negotiation?

The author.

Any additional comments?

A truly vapid book.

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"Positivity" doesn't merit a positive review

Revisado: 02-04-16

The author starts by asking you to imagine, for example, that your chipper four year old daughter enthusiastically bounds into your bedroom in the morning to give you a hug. Does that make you mad? If not, this book's not for you. Because the author here says that it should, and then purports to show you how you could - with her wise counsel -view that situation positively. The author isn't helpful - she's mentally ill. This book isn't useful - it's a consumer fraud. Mr Audible, if you don't refund my money for this piece of garbage, this will be the last book I buy from you.

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useful

Revisado: 05-18-13

What did you love best about Guerrilla Negotiating?

Not how to cheat your adversary, but how to identify impediments to agreement and how to design solutions to address those impediments.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Edward Lewis?

Yes

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I regret not reading it years ago...

Any additional comments?

Could be a useful addition to any business school curriculum.

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telephone book writing

Revisado: 04-11-13

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I'm an avid fan of military history, but this book didn't impress. The underlying story is actually quite compelling: the first test of two very different tactical styles against one another. The execution of this story, however, was lacking in several fundamentals.

First, in this story, space and spatial relationships are important - the shape and slope of various ridge lines, the narrowness of a particular jungle path, etc. The author, however, skips this descriptive foreplay and grabs directly for the "action." As with any other man who skips foreplay, however, the author's end result here is clumsy, shallow and, in a way, embarrassing: the author takes a complex, emotionally strong and terrifying situation, and makes it sound like a bicycle assembly manual.

Second, in any story, people and personal relationships are important. Here, however, the author doesn't bother wasting paper on the individuals involved. Rather, he wastes that paper describing not the individuals involved, but the administrative organizations involved, referring to each in a dizzying blizzard of military acronyms. This all makes one confident that the author has in fact read the appropriate US Army communiqués, but makes one question whether he did anything more than transcribe those communiqués.

All in all, a painfully boring read.

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Much more than the title implies

Revisado: 11-15-10

The author is a high-yield analyst at Merrill-Lynch. He's take some time to research common themes that make a business succeed (or fail). You can, I suppose, use this to try to be a billionaire. You can also use it to simply make your business more profitable (whether you own it or work for it as an employee). You can use these threads to distinguish between attractive investments and unattractive ones, or sort new clients into high-growth and limited-growth prospects. I'm a dissatisfied bookworm, and in my entire life I likely won't give a total of ten 5-star ratings; congratulations, Mr. Fridson, you earned one!

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