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Thinking of picking up Crucial Conversations and spending several hours reading it, or did you already do that and need a refresher? Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler's guide for conducting conversations when they matter most is valuable in your personal and professional areas of life. Crucial Conversations explains how to identify these important moments and how to successfully navigate them.

Whether you’re considering checking out Kim Scott’s Radical Candor or you need some help recalling the key concepts, this Executive Reads summary has you covered. You'll quickly grasp the key ideas in Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity.

In Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore popularized the technology adoption life cycle, known elsewhere as the product adoption curve or innovation adoption curve. Contained in this useful model are terms you've heard but may not truly understand: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Between the early market segments (innovators and early adopters) and the mainstream market segments (early and late majorities) lies the chasm.

In the current climate of racial tension and outcries for equality, why does talking about race seem so difficult? In Robin DiAngelo's best-selling book, White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, she takes on this difficult topic. In less than one hour, this summary will help you recall the key ideas if you already listened to the book or quickly grasp the key ideas from White Fragility if you're considering listening to it. 

In The Big Short, Micheal Lewis chronicles the looming housing market crash of 2008-2009 through the eyes of a select few who saw it coming and positioned themselves to make a substantial amount of money from the folly of bankers. Follow the unapologetic analyst Steve Eisman; the value investor-savant Michael Burry; the two "event-driven" investors with no hedge fund chops; and the sleazy Grep Lippmann, who did his best to spread the idea and make money off investors wanting in and out of subprime.

Understand more about the philosophy and approach of our new Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch. In less than 45 minutes, learn, or recall, the key points. In his thoughtful book, Judge Neil Gorsuch, now a Supreme Court Justice, lays out the complicated issues surrounding suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

In this summary, quickly grasp the key ideas in Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future in less than one hour. Writing for the New York Times for over two decades, Krugman has written an enormous amount of well researched long-form journalism on a variety of topics, from Social Security to the media around a central theme: America is headed in the wrong direction, both economically and politically.