Rating: 8/10. How leaders close gaps between plans, actions and results. This book is about Bungay's expertful research into military's learnings from past centuries and how it all can be applied to modern-day business and leadership. Find an extensive summary below.

Rating: 9/10. Welcome to internet's best — and probably most extensive summary of the book, although I think no amount of summarizing does it any real justice. It's a must read for everyone who is interested in quality business literature. Don't let the initial publishing year of 1991 scare you off.

Rating: 7/10. A real estate investment of $24 by the Dutch to buy the island of Manhattan would today be roughly equivalent to $3 trillion. Across 378 years, that’s about a seven percent annual compound rate of return.

Rating: 8/10. Read this book and your life is guaranteed to be a success. Jokes aside, this collection is really one of the most dense packages of modern wisdom and easily applicable mental models out there. Naval's collected perspectives are bound to become a widely cited classic. Recommended.

Rating: 7/10. A masterpiece about one of the most central topics in the human experience. This was Ernest Becker's first mature work before his own early departure, providing a theoretical and psychoanalytical perspective on not only death but also other questions that we all keep asking ourselves.

Rating: 7/10. Welcome to a story of unpreparedness, failure, adaptation, victory and growth. A fascinating deep-dive into the thoughts and experiences of a world record holder and a special forces operator during his most desperate moments. All told in a way like it's just the two of you there.

Rating: 3/10. When approaching this book I was looking to learn in detail about how Salesforce spearheaded the "new sales model" which has since become the industry standard for many SaaS sales teams. What I ended up with instead was absolutely nothing new and a recap of only one truly useful thing.