Books about Decent people, Sales mgmt and Time illusion

Writing down some lines of the recently read books to support my own memory and hopefully give you some good tips for reading. The books are: Rutger Bregman's Human kind - demonstrating that humans are fundamentally good - opposed to violence, Jens Edgren's Co-creative selling - practical guidebook to successful selling and Carlo Rovelli's The Order Of Time, which strips off illusion of time.

Rutger Bregman's theme in his book Human kind - A Hopeful History - is that humans are fundamentally decent. Throughout the pages of the book he highlights historically and prehistorical events, which after detailed studies support his theory. Like why the soldiers from both sides hold a joint Christmas party during the first world war - despite of being enemies. One of the main message of the book is that the more close contacts people have the less there is disagreements and conflicts. During our time of overwhelming amount of news about crises, local wars and disagreements between people, leaders, societies and countries, Rutger Bregman's theory of decent humans is like a salvation from the inferno. 

But there are also critical comments to Rutgers philosophy and the theme of the book. For critical readers here is an example: Steven Pole's article in The Guardian

Jens Edgren's book Co-creative selling is about how the seller and the customer can work together. "A sales process is not only a way to win business; it is also a way of quality assuring the deal." In his fairly short book (=easy and quick to read for sales folks) Jens Edgren emphasizes the main steps of creating a successful sales pipeline. He also gives some tips for sales managers to guide their sales team. And end of the book there is a Sales Compass tool (also application is available) to evaluate sales case status (probability) and development.

If you want to have a look behind our illusionary world - which we call reality - one book to choose is Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time. In his book Carlo Rovelli explains that based on modern physics there is no such a universal variable as time. Some trivial examples: the is no universal time - even in the globe there is no present time. If you raise your clock to a mountain it will go slower (=time passes slower), if you drive a car, time passes slower. Or more challenging examples: Time doesn′t have continuity, there is a smallest granularity of time called Planck's time, i.e. it is the smallest time element you can get. There is nothing between Planck's time units. Or this: the world is fundamentally a sum of independent events, which we interpret as things. As Carlo writes: "The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." But should this sound weird or even scary to you, bypass the book and enjoy your "real" life and have a good "time".