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THE EXECUTTVE SUMMARY
Select one of the books listed below and develop a 1,000 word condensation of its main ideas. Your summary should be well-written, with care taken regarding spelling, punctuation, sentence form, and paragraph structure. You may wish to quote some passages briefly (up to 50 words) putting all quotations in quotation marks, of course. But take care to avoid simply stringing together a series of lifted passages. Your summary must be an actual digestion of the overall work written primarily in your own words. These books are classic business-related works, all written well before you were born, but of such importance and lasting influence that they have been reissued repeatedly since their original publication.
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. (A major text for anyone interested in sales, or for that matter, people in general.)
The Affluent Society, by John Kenneth Galbraith. (An analysis of the effect of production as a major goal of American society. Difficult reading without some background in economics.)
Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill. (Probably the most central insight ever published on how the rich get that way.)
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkiel. (A groundbreaking and scholarly analysis of the investment business.)
Parkinson's Law, by C. Northcote Parkinson (A blunt, book-length essay on human nature in the face of tasks needing to be done.)
The Peter Principle, by Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull. (An explanation of how promotions so often have disastrous effects.)
In Search of Excellence, by Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (A survey of corporate structures and why some work better than others.)
What Color is Your Parachute? by Richvci Bolles. (The indispensable job-search guide, whether just starting out or changing careers.)
Theory of the Leisure Class, by Thorsten Veblen. (A economics classic, key to understanding why the wealthy spend and behave as they often do.)
NOTE: What Color is Your Parachute and How to Win Friends and Influence People is widely available online for free.
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