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Globalization and Its Discontents

The SQUEEZE: Joseph Stiglitz’s Globalization and Its Discontents is an indictment of the global economic policies of various organizations which include the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank. Stiglitz in...

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It Summary

The SQUEEZE: Writing corporate history has increasingly become the career path for many journalists and media critics. Ken Auletta, a well-regarded media journalist, has joined the wave of writers interested in chronicling the rise and fall of maj...

Guts: The Seven Laws of Business that Made Chrysler the World’s Hottest Car Company Summary

The SQUEEZE: There are not too many events in history that have shocked the business world, save the Chrysler Corporation-Daimler-Benz merger. The merger between the two companies was the largest of its kind. How did Chrysler transform itself into...

Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out Summary

The SQUEEZE: Marci Shimoff is by far the best-selling co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul, a book that offers a practical program for discovering and maintaining personal happiness. In Shimoff’s new book, Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being H...

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Summary

The SQUEEZE: The Internet has had both positive and negative effects upon modern groups that have enjoyed traditional face-to-face conversation. Social media tools such as MySpace, Twitter, Word Press, and Facebook encourage group conversation and...

House of Cards: How Wall Street’s Gamblers Broke Capitalism Summary

The SQUEEZE: The collapse and subsequent sale of Bear Stearns ignited the financial meltdown of 2008. JP Morgan Chase purchased the eighty-five-year-old institution for the low price of $2 trillion. These events contributed to the unraveling of Wa...

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir Summary

The SQUEEZE: Part autobiography and part family memoir, John McCain’s Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir represents an exploration of the author’s life and service in the U.S. military. McCain traces his personal history, from the time he spends...

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Summary

The SQUEEZE: In Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, Raghuram G. Rajan suggests that there are flaws in the economy, warning that a potentially devastating crisis awaits us. In the book, Rajan outlines the individual...

Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose Summary

The SQUEEZE: In today’s economy, companies are required to become value creators. Companies must generate different forms of value which include emotional, experiential, social, and financial. It is a path that companies must take in order to incr...

Food, Inc. How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It Summary

The SQUEEZE: Today’s agribusiness practices have been called into question by leading industry experts and thinkers. Do we truly know what we are eating? This is the question that Karl Webber poses in Food, Inc. How Industrial Food is Making Us Si...
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