Lillian Glass popularized the phrase toxic people and sorted them into 30 types. We keep the coping tools that hold up and drop the taxonomy that does not.

Mintzberg watched managers instead of theorizing about them and found the job is fast, fragmented and spoken. Our verdict on which parts still hold up.

John Maxwell says connecting is about others, not you. That part holds up. We check the five practices against the research and hand you the whole toolkit.

Rework respects your time and mostly gets the temperament right. But its rules are one profitable company’s biography sold as universal law. Here is what holds up and what does not.

Adler’s «How to Read a Book» is right about the problem and long-winded about the solution. We extract the four-move method and check it against modern reading-comprehension research.