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Tom

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Tom reviewed The 4-hour work week by Timothy Ferriss

The 4-hour work week (Hardcover, 2007, Crown Publishers)

The New York Times bestselling how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools …

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4 stars

This book’s title feels like a joke at first, but once you start reading, you realize Ferriss is absolutely serious about it. He breaks things down step by step, challenging the default assumptions about work and life.
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Tom reviewed Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by William L. Ury

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback, 1991, Penguin)

Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and …

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5 stars

I’ve often heard about the “Harvard Negotiation” method, but I hadn’t read Getting to Yes until recently. To my surprise, much of the content felt familiar - not because I had read it before, but because I had already been using many of its principles, unknowingly picked up from other sources.
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