Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence

Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence by Heidi Grant Halvorson and E. Tory Higgins

The authors divide everyone into those with a "promotion" and a "prevention" mindset and provide advice on how to best guide and influence people based on that understanding. It is the standard "fit everything into this view" book. It makes sense in the context of the book. However, real people may alternate between risk avoidance and success seeking behaviors, even at the same time. 

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

This book starts with an interesting idea and then repeats them ad nauseam. The idea is that looking at things carefully like Sherlock Holmes can be beneficial in many aspects of life and business. It is helpful to understand biases and not jump to unwarranted conclusions. We should carefully observe things and understand what details our mind is "filling in". These are some good points and would make a nice magazine article. As a book, it goes on for much too long. I kept thinking it was over, but then it would continue on with different variations of the same points.