The Genius of The Few by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien, an alternative take for garden of eden and Anunnaki compared to Sitchin
Built To Sell by John Warrillow, on how to build a business you can exit with a profit.
I read 30+ books in the last and this year so there are others but three is enough for this list.
But if you can look past that there were a lot of practical take away in the book, at least for me. The largest was how should I think about negotiation and how it is a part of life. My favourite technique I still use from day to day is 'labeling' and 'false labeling'. It just helps naturally start conversations when you meet someone at the office coffee machine.
Anyone who has mental blocks asking for a raise should definetly read it.
I mean, maybe. I read a lot of books and just found this one not very actionable.
As far as I could tell, the book was an ad for his consulting & training services. Which means that it did its job perfectly, between all the boasting and the nuggets of an idea that are almost, but not quite, useful (“man, this just isn’t working… guess I better pay for some classes!”)
Hard non-recommendation here.
The forest ain’t there. It’s a PR/advertising illusion that vanishes as soon as you engage critical thinking.
That’s my opinion. You disagree. Ok.
“How can I see the forest?” LOL.
[edit] for others reading this: it’s not that I didn’t find anything useful in the book, just that the useful bits were rare and most of the book is unrealistic BS about how effective the techniques are, which were either made up (the “true” truck-buying negotiation story, oh man, what a whopper) or omitted other factors to make the advice from the book seem to have saved the day all on its own. You’ll get the wrong idea if you take the book at face value, plus you’ll have wasted a lot of time reading a whole book that could have been a couple pretty-decent blog posts.
Is there anything that you found convincing in it? Or is it just a fantasy without foundations (or, worse, fake foundations like Daniken)? I find Anunnaki fascinating but people who start writing about them usually stray into their pet theory away from facts.
As for the book, I liked their different take on the Anunnaki, although they focused on very niche part of the written history and had a different take on the events. By talking only about the garden of eden, they did not have to delve into what came before it, so they avoided the "aliens" controversy. They did the research and translations, so it's not yet another armchair warrior type of thing, like Tellinger, for example. And their interpretation does not go against what Sitchin wrote. It's just different take on it, well worth reading if you are a fan of Anunnaki stuff.
Since you mentioned Daniken, he is a sensationalist. Sitchin is, well was, a scholar. They are not playing on the same field and should not be even compared. Daniken is great to read, don't get me wrong, but he uses a lot of fantasy and "what-ifs" and sensationalism. Sitchin on the other hand was a researcher that did the ground work, he did the travelling, he did the translations and he always backed up everything he claimed.
If you want to get the book, I bough it at goldenageproject.org.uk because it is extremely expensive on Amazon. This is an independent reprint of it. But I would recommend to first read Sitchin, he's the foundation for everything else. No one else has done more research and delved as deep as he did. Although after 12th planet, the books become too technical and observational. Less story telling and more describing which does not read to well. If you get the Sitchin bug after 12th planet, go for it. There is a nice set called the complete earth chronicles. Or you can get the summarized version the anunnaki chronicles.
Related, I got a lot out of "Blue Ocean Strategy", though that was more than a decade ago.