Leadership BS: Summary & Review
Exposes the limitations (and lies) of naive self-help within the leadership industry. A fundamental read for anyone who aspires to becoming a leader (and aye-opener for many).
Recommended Books
This is our must read book list to understand how the world truly works, picked and recommended by Lucio Buffalmano and The Power Moves community.
The goal is to truly understand people and human psychology in order to succeed in that world and achieve your goals.
The Social Strategist: Summary & Review
Provides an easy-to-digest overview of many of TPM’s most foundational approaches and strategies, including novel examples of how to use and apply certain strategies and techniques
Power: Why Some People Have It – and Others Don’t: Review
Great overview of power dynamics and how to succeed and advance in life (& exposing the limitations of inspirational and naive self-help)
The Gervais Principle: Summary & Review
Revolutionary take on career (and life) success based on power-awareness and dark-triad levels.
Power-aware sociopaths sit at the top. The naive and conscientious mid-manager are workhorses who get the crumbles. (warning: avoid over-cynicism. Good people can win and skills also matter)
Who’s Pulling Your Strings? Summary & Review
Great overview of interpersonal manipulation.
To stop manipulation you need to change and empower yourself.
And overly cynical people need to change mindset or else they CREATE their own win-lose reality.
The Dictator’s Handbook: Summary & Review
Provides a different and much-needed novel approach to political analysis by focusing on the leader’s self-interest (and skirting fuzzy appeals to higher ideals and national interests).