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Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More Jason W. Womack John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why taking “Baby steps” can lead to giant achievements In the film What About Bob (1991), Richard Dreyfuss…
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Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett At last…
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The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line David Horsager Free Press (2012) “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Presumably all C-level…
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The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, and Your Career Darren Hardy Vanguard Press? /A member of the Perseus Group (2010) “The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.” Albert Einstein I selected the Einstein quotation to…
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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan “The one…
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The Value Investors: Lessons from the World’s Top Fund Managers Ronald W. Chan John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd. (2012) Unique perspectives on how to attempt to achieve and then sustain a “stellar” record in value investment In an…
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Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck: What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur and Build a Great Business Anthony K. Tjan, Richard J. Harrington, and Tsun-yan Hsieh Harvard Busin ess Review Press (2012) How to develop a mindset that you can apply in any situation,…
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Tom Butler-Bowdon has only recently received in the United States the attention and appreciation that he so richly deserves. Years ago, he formulated his “50 Classics” concept, based on the idea that “every subject or genre will contain at least 50…
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown Publishers (2012) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions Throughout most of her…
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Carol J. Loomis: My 51 Years (and counting) at Fortune
Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Carol J. Loomis for FORTUNE magazine, published in 2005. She has stood toe-to-toe with imperial CEOs, exposed major frauds, and played some serious bridge with Buffett. Now FORTUNE’s intrepid reporter…
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