Business Book Club Meetup #11 - Factfulness

Hi everyone, Business Book Club Cologne Meetup #11 is on:

• THURSDAY, 22.08, 19:00 @ 25hours Hotel The Circle - Im Klapperhof 22-24, 50670 Köln - Down in the CoWorking Lobby

• OUR NEXT BOOK: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases. (Barack Obama)

One of the most important books I've ever read-an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world. (Bill Gates)

A powerful antidote to pervasive pessimism and populist untruths. (Andrew Rawnsley Observer, Book of the Year)

Factfulness ... , a light-hearted but data-rich book, calibrates our view of the world and explains how our cognitive processes can lead us astray (Steven Pinker New Statesman, The best books of 2018)

Wonderful... a passionate and erudite message that is all the more moving because it comes from beyond the grave... His knack for presentation and delight in statistics come across on every page. Who else would choose a chart of "guitars per capita" as a proxy for human progress? (Financial Times)

An immensely cheering book in these anxious times. (Christina Hardyment The Times)

We look forward to your comments and many RSVP: YESSS!

Eugen & Tito

P.S.: Suggestions for the upcoming books are always welcome! :)

****************************************** Our meetup structure:
• Introduction: everybody tells ~3 sentences about him/herself
• Brief author bio (~5 min)
• Impression: everybody talks ~2 min (own experiences/what did we like most/least?)
• Discussion: lessons learned from the book
• Total time: ~2hrs.

What do you need to participate?
Interest in the topic of the book to be discussed.
You don’t have to have read the book completely.

How can you prepare for the meetup? (optional)
Think about the following questions:

1. Which ideas in the book were most valuable for you?
2. Any lessons learned which you can apply immediately?
3. Which questions were not answered in the book? What’s next?

Sprache: Das Meetup wird entweder auf Deutsch oder auf Englisch gehalten. Am Anfang entscheiden wir gemeinsam welche Sprache gesprochen wird.

Language: As soon as there is at least one person who can't speak German, the meetup language will be English. At the beginning of the meetup we decide together which language will be spoken.

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