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Serena K.

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Good Example of Smart Person with Weak Logic

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2 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-02-18

Galloway's philosophy is: Unsuccessful Company = Stupid. Successful Company = Evil. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon = Evil. The New York Times = Stupid. Power corrupts unless it's powerful governments, which are benevolent, even when they are guilty of invasion of privacy and other crimes that make The Four evil.

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Wow! Enlightened.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-13-17

This book changed the way I see parenting. I usually bookmark to take notes, but this book is so packed with useful information that I want to be sure to reference that I took a lot of notes. Dr. Tsabary is a wealth of knowledge. I first learned from her in a Lewis Howes podcast, which was worth listening to more than once.

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Strange

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Reviewed: 06-02-17

Starts off strong. Inspiring woman. Impressive career. But somewhere along the way you realize this is actually an autobiography in the third person. By the end it becomes brutal Trump-age self aggrandizement. The author offers no additional insight or counterpoint to Lansing's views.

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Insightful

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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-04-17

She draws on experience to give practical advice. I'm going to share with my team. She needs to practice her speaking skills. The downward inflection and weak intonation make her sound borderline bored. Also, she speaks

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Some Good Nuggets

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Reviewed: 04-13-17

I appreciate his passion for the environment, but it does come if a bit as a commercial. I was hoping for a deeper look at the story of the company.

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Original and Thoughtful but not Compelling

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Reviewed: 04-07-17

The strength is the prose which is borderline poetry. The story itself lacks a compelling center. That is partly because the author is wading into less-traveled territory. The style works to a degree but also keeps us at a distance from the characters. The author's storytelling skill is the biggest weakness which is why it is not riveting. Overall it is good enough to appreciate the points that make us think about our society and ourselves, but it fails to make us connect to the people. The author shows promise and would do well to hone his playwrighting to balance out his skills.

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No Breakthrough Here

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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-10-17

A reductionist approach to systems thinking just doesn't work. Pretty much all of the ideas in the book are spot on, but they are not necessarily new or presented in a new way. The stilted prose is too clinical to really allow you to connect to the material on an emotional level. The Storytelling of the author was too emotionally distant to really be compelling.

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Useful Nuggets

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-02-17

Good storytelling, writing, and research. I took a lot of useful nuggets from this book.

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well researched look into motivation

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Reviewed: 02-16-17

Although he doesn't challenge Drive by Daniel Pink, he does build upon and improve the theory of intrinsic motivation.

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Pain / Pleasure

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Reviewed: 02-13-17

What would have made Focus better?

The Promotion Prevention framework is based on Pain / Pleasure motivators. That helps understand lizards, but mammals have a lot more going on. Primates have even more, and humans have a lot more. Also, the authors said that people can be high in both Promotion and Prevention, and then during most of the book they speak about people as being one or the other. Also, the categorization of Promotion People vs. Prevention People data is based on self-assessments, and I challenge the validity of that method. If we separate the delivery (narration) from the content (narrative), the authors could choose more powerful stories to illustrate points, and they need to tell those stories in more powerful ways. This is a skill, and like all skills needs practice. I suggest the authors practice the skill of telling stories in riveting ways.

Would you ever listen to anything by Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and E. Tory Higgins Ph.D. again?

No.

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