Most marketing is soulless and self-centered—an interruption of someone’s life just to catch their attention. What if we told you there’s a better way? In Know What You’re FOR, marketing guru Jeff Henderson teaches us what to do, especially if you’re experiencing a decline of sales and momentum. He focuses on how to create powerful, lasting […]
Who Will Rescue The West?
Over the last few decades, income has fallen for the middle and lower classes while the costs of housing, health care, and higher education have soared. This has been caused by unregulated monopolies, globalization, soft corruption, and shortsighted economic policies. In today’s Instaread, The Economics of Discontent, the economist Jean-Michel Paul points out how Western governments continue to […]
The Case for Legal Narcotics
If you spent most of your life struggling with heroin addiction, what would make you give it up? Our latest Instaread looks at the journey of the late activist David Poses, who hid his addiction from loved ones for years. In the Beginning Poses got the idea to try heroin from a drug prevention assembly. The […]
Started From The Bottom…
How can we leverage failure to grow personally and professionally? In our latest Instaread summary, Green Beret and former Ultimate Fighting Championship headliner Tim Kennedy shows how it’s done. Scars and Stripes follows Tim and his friend Nick Palmisciano to tell the story of how Tim became the best possible version of himself. Tim was kicked […]
Don’t be Your Own Worst Enemy
Everyone has a story. Today’s Instaread summary will change the way you conceptualize and tell that story, to yourself and to other people in the world. In Choose Your Story, Change Your Life, storyteller and keynote speaker Kindra Hall explains what stories are, explores their power, and details how you can rewrite the bad ones into better […]
Apple at a Glance
Apple has been one of the few companies in Big Tech untouched by mass layoffs. One of the reasons is Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has relentlessly focused on building the business. But there has been a creative cost. What happens when a company loses a driving force like Steve Jobs? Our Instaread on After Steve lays […]
Adapt or Die
It’s survival of the fittest out there, and Instaread is here to help you evolve. Today’s summary explores how leaders must adapt to stay relevant. In Leadershift, leadership expert John C. Maxwell explains the shifts in mindset that leaders must make. Leadership, like everything else, keeps evolving, and leaders need to keep learning and rediscovering what […]
The King of Bad Bosses
In the US, big bosses such as CEOs, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists are hailed as the most brilliant minds. Increased shareholder value is celebrated as if it were a major medical breakthrough. But the tactics and strategies they use—downsizing, outsourcing, deal making, and shareholder primacy—are destabilizing the middle class and making the world a more […]
The Guy Who Ruined the World and Wrote a Book About It.
Good morning from Instaread, your book summary concierge. Today’s title is a wild ride through some of the darkest secrets of the US government. As a former economic hit man, John Perkins has been in involved in some of modern history’s most shocking events. He used to cheat countries out of enormous sums of money […]
The Book No One Wants to Review
It seems safe to say that Alex Jones hasn’t had the best year. He’s been ordered to pay over $1.4 billion in damages for spreading falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting. One of his attorneys was suspended a few days ago for improperly sharing private medical records. And he has one of the banned accounts […]