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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…
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The Age of the Moguls Stewart Hall Holbrook Transaction Publishers (2010) “Lords of capital” in “a savage and gaudy age” First, some brief background information about Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893-1964). Throughout his adult years, he was at first a lumberjack…
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Ready to Be a Thought Leader? How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success Denise Brosseau Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) If you have ideas that are of value to others, you are a thought leader. Throughout history, there have been…
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Here is a brief article written by Marissa Ann Mayer for BusinessWeek in 2006. She explains how and why constraints challenge creative initiatives and thereby improve what they produce. Constraints include limited resources such as hours and dollars, of course,…
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Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How To Make Changes That Stick Jeremy Dean DeCapo Press/Member of Perseus Books Group (2013) How to avoid or eliminate self-defeating habits while developing others that accelerate personal growth and professional development The material provided is…
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Conf!dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Hudson Street Press/The Penguin Group (2013) How and why “low confidence is the result of failure but the source of success” In this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic observes, “The…
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In his book, The Luck Factor, Richard Wiseman describes luck in terms of choice. In his research working with more than 400 individuals, he found several key attributes of those who describe themselves as “lucky”: 1. They harness the power…
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Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology Bob Lord and Ray Velez John Wiley & Sons (2013) “The villain throughout this book is the silo.” Increasingly and more extensively, successful brands are using technology to create memorable…
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Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers Chuck Wall Bibliomotion (2013) To paraphrase Pogo the possum, “We have met the customer and we are [or should be] her or him.” Over the years, I have read and reviewed hundreds of books…
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Peter Drucker’s classic McKinsey Quarterly article, “The manager and the moron”
Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Peter Drucker (1909-2005) that appeared in the McKinsey Quarterly in the December 1967 issue. According to Drucker, the computer is a moron. And the stupider the tool, the brighter the master…
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