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Ask a capable professional why a deal stalled, a partnership drifted, or a team kept working hard and kept falling short, and you'll hear about timing, resources, the wrong people in the room. Ask them what was actually agreed to, and you get a pause. That pause is the reason this book exists. Underneath nearly every conversation runs a second layer — the exchange that actually produces the outcome. Most professionals have never been taught to see it. They've been taught expertise instead: more credentials, deeper knowledge, sharper skills. Expertise earns you the room.

Legends never die, dude. I'll tell your story... There are many sides to Danny McBride: he’s starred as the iconic character Jesse Gemstone in the cult classic TV series The Righteous Gemstones, a show he also wrote and created—just as he did with Vice Principals and Eastbound & Down before...

An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride—the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down. “These McBride men more than drink their own Kool-Aid, they swig it to survive. On fever quests to save face and make their...

Set in San Francisco and North Carolina, the linked stories in Damn Love introduce us to characters struggling with love in all its complicated forms, including a young doctor getting over a breakup with the help of a patient, a newly married gay man who reconnects with his estranged mother, a trio of physicists caught in a surprising love triangle, and a soldier who takes secrets with her to the Iraqi desert.