Too busy to read books?

Here’s a direct link to valuable advice from Tim Ferris who explains how to read 300% faster in only 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, busy as you no doubt are, you also need to check out Money & Power: The History of Business, written by Howard Means, published by John Wiley & Sons (2001), and based on the CNBC documentary produced by David Grubin.

According to Means, “We followed the money to the personalities — both definitive and representative — that have dominated the last thousand years of business, and to some of the most defining and colorful events of the millennium.” The personalities are Sir/St. Godric of Finchale, Cosimo de’ Medici, Philip II, those involved with “Tulipmania”, James Watt and Matthew Boulton, those involved with the Transcontinental Railway, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Robert Woodruff, the key players involved in the merger which created Time Warner, and Bill Gates.

Means concludes, “Throughout the last millennium, it was control that created fortunes; control over the oceans or the railroads, the highways or the airwaves. At the start of the new millennium, it’s still control — this time over cyberspace, the new wealth machine. Some things never change, but here’s the difference: This road to riches is open to everyone.”