Top Dog, Po Bronson
Top Dog, Po Bronson
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Top Dog
The Science of Winning and Losing

Author: Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman

Narrator: Po Bronson

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 02/19/2013


Synopsis

New York Times Bestseller

Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's work changes the national dialogue. Beyond their bestselling books, you know them from commentary and features in the New York Times, CNN, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Wired, New York, and more. E-mail, Facebook, and Twitter accounts are filled with demands to read their reporting (such as "How Not to Talk to Your Kids," "Creativity Crisis," and "Losing Is Good for You").

In Top Dog, Bronson and Merryman again use their astonishing blend of science and storytelling to reveal what's truly in the heart of a champion. The joy of victory and the character-building agony of defeat. Testosterone and the neuroscience of mistakes. Why rivals motivate. How home field advantage gets you a raise. What teamwork really requires. It's baseball, the SAT, sales contests, and Linux. How before da Vinci and FedEx were innovators, first, they were great competitors.

Olympians carry Top Dog in their gym bags. It's in briefcases of Wall Street traders and Madison Avenue madmen. Risk takers from Silicon Valley to Vegas race to implement its ideas, as educators debate it in halls of academia. Now see for yourself what this game-changing talk is all about.

About Po Bronson

Po Bronson is a journalist and author who lives in San Francisco.


Reviews

Goodreads review by 'stina on November 18, 2008

I finished Po Bronson's Why Do I Love These People? over the weekend. It was a fairly quick read about 19 families. Divorce, death, different cultures, keeping in touch, pushing away. The book sort of discusses how families stick together, make it work. It's looking from both the point of view of th......more

Goodreads review by Jan on January 18, 2011

the only thing I would have suggested the author do differently is take the stories from the last half of the book and put them first. They carried a different kind of heartache, in my opinion. My mood shifted to a darker side reading the 2nd half, even though the individuals still worked out their......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on August 21, 2008

If you ever questioned, "why did I have to belong to this family", read this book and embrace the amazing stories, I think it will make even the most cynical individual realize how important it may be to, accept and appreciate the family we came from. "That which does not kill you makes you stronge......more

Goodreads review by Marianne on June 07, 2020

The stories in this book are super interesting. I had trouble connecting with the narrative voice. But I liked the people he talked to a lot.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on May 12, 2008

I will admit that like others on this site, I was initially attracted to this book based upon the title. Being from a large and close Italian family, there are times when I ask the question posed by this book, and of course the only answer is that because they are family. This book chronicles the str......more