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Why This Author Is on the Shelf
We include Robert Greene because the associated Reading Room title gives owners a useful way to think about real operating decisions. The value is not biography; it is what the work helps a business do more clearly this quarter.
Short Biography
Robert Greene is an author known for books on power, strategy, mastery, and human behavior. His work often uses historical examples to examine patterns in ambition, conflict, influence, and fear.
What Inspired the Work
His work seems driven by the belief that power dynamics exist whether or not people admit them, and that studying them can make readers less naive.
Books in the Reading Room
Power, Strategy & Mindset
Featured author
Less a how-to manual than a field guide to the games people are already playing around you. Knowing the laws is what keeps you from being on the wrong end of one.
Power, Strategy & Mindset
With 50 Cent, Robert Greene
Curtis Jackson and Greene's collaboration on fearlessness. The biographical chapters land harder than the philosophy chapters; both are worth the time.
How to Use These Ideas in a Business
Read the related title with one current problem in mind: cash flow, delegation, hiring, pipeline, customer process, client communication, risk transfer, leadership conflict, or positioning. Then turn one idea into a written operating rule with an owner, metric, and review date.
