The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read

by Gregory Hartley, Gregory Hartley

Hone your professional approach to a razor's edge using lessons from military and civilian intelligence The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read brings expertise from military and civilian intelligence operations into your business life. It lays out hard-hitting interpersonal skills to raise your level of professional effectiveness and vanquish your competition. The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read features former Army interrogator Gregory Hartley's unique system of profiling, formula for persuasion, and framework for establishing expertise quickly. Gregory makes his system concrete with case studies, tables, diagrams, and more.   Take your career focus to the next level. Discover the skills they don't teach in business school with The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read .

Genres: Business, Psychology, Philosophy, Personal Development, Communication, Nonfiction, Self Help

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 6, 2011

About the author

Gregory Hartley's expertise as an interrogator first earned him honors with the United States Army. More recently, it has drawn organizations such as the Defense Intelligence Agency, Navy SEALS, Federal law enforcement agencies, and national TV to seek his insights about "how to" as well as "why." He resides near Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

[Grace · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes when you see a book like this, you have to pick it up and see how cheesy it's going to be. I mean, look at that cover. It screams infomercial. It screams buy my scam. It screams the same thing every internet marketer screams.

The difference is that it's solid.

Hartley does a great job integrating psychology, toolboxes of professionals, and business savvy together in a way that feels like you are part bad ass, part smart ass, all kick ass. This works out well because the content in here is not the dark arts that you might think they are, but highly practical skills we can use in the business world to make things work better.

For example, profiling is used to make sure you've got the right person for a job. Networking goes deeper than just talking to people, but also dips into the intelligence realm so you can follow what really bugs employees when they won't say it to your face. Negotiation becomes more about making the situation a win-win, without any loss.

Frankly, I loved the book. I like the down to earth, practical advice. It wasn't an easy read though. It oscillated between dry and boring and more dry and more boring. Despite of that, there is a LOT of useful information in here on how to work with people no matter what type of situation you are in or what you need them to do.

[Jason Houx · Rating 5 out of 5]

a lot of people call this book disturbing and although i understand the reason for the comment i also see the advantage of understanding the techniques in this book. this was a eye opener for me - perhaps i was not interested previously in profiling people, perhaps i was just ignorant - regardless this book provided a new technology tree (so to speak) for me to explore and improve my own skills when dealing with people in general. after reading this book i began to look deeper than the surface at day to day interactions with my surroundings. some parts of this book we all natural do in day to day life so nothing new - what is special about this book is understanding how to improve your strengths/insight you already had but didn't fully leverage. this book is dangerous.

[Brett Henderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Underwhelming

[Bret · Rating 5 out of 5]

instant classic, great material, concise!

[Neil]

The little I red I found fascinating and cant wait to read the entire book.