Creativity, Inc.
Good to Great
Building a Second Brand
The Lean Startup
Blue Ocean Strategy
Leaders Eat Last
The Innovator's Dilemma
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Lean In
The Power of Habit
Four Thousand Weeks
The 5AM Club
Crucial Conversations
The Infinite Game
Never Split the Difference
The First 90 Days
Creativity, Inc. Good to Great Building a Second Brand The Lean Startup Blue Ocean Strategy Leaders Eat Last The Innovator's Dilemma Thinking, Fast and Slow Lean In The Power of Habit Four Thousand Weeks The 5AM Club Crucial Conversations The Infinite Game Never Split the Difference The First 90 Days
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Never Split The Difference
In Never Split the Difference, former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, writing with journalist Tahl Raz, argues that negotiation is driven by emotion, not logic. Drawing on kidnapping cases and business deals, he teaches tactical empathy and concrete tools: mirroring, labeling emotions, inviting "no," aiming for "that's right," asking calibrated "how" and "what" questions, and bargaining with a structured offer sequence. Voss warns that splitting the difference often leaves both sides worse off. The techniques are memorable and practical, though the book's evidence is largely anecdotal and some tactics can feel manipulative if used without genuine empathy.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains how two modes of thought shape every judgment we make: fast, automatic System 1 and slow, effortful System 2. Drawing on decades of research, much of it with Amos Tversky, he shows how shortcuts like anchoring and availability lead us astray, why experts are often overconfident, how losses loom larger than gains, and why our memories of experiences differ from the experiences themselves. Some of the book's priming research has not held up, but its core ideas remain essential for anyone who makes decisions under uncertainty.