What are some of your favorites or classic business and investing books? Here is a small list in my bookshelf that can accelerate your success. Contrarian Investment Strategies – The Next Generation (David Dreman): My colleague Louis Basenese mentioned this in his small-cap investing column earlier this week. Like my beloved Yankees, Lou has...
Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a “generalist” or multi-disciplinarian — a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific...
Ever had days when getting out of bed was the last thing you wanted to do? I’ve had those days, too. I once thought that I needed to take supplements in order to wake up all energized and ready to take on the day. But, as it turns out, all I need is a...
The New Physics and readings from science: Quantum Physics has turned topsy turvy all of our cherished notions of how things work. In this world time can flow backwards with particles dying before they are born. Space is curved and exists in an infinite number of dimensions. Space and matter are inexplicably linked, neither...
What Do You Want to Create? Perhaps the greatest myth about creativity is the idea that it’s a rare gift or genetic endowment possessed by only a few. We see an original painting, feel moved to our core by a piece of music, or read about an incredible scientific discovery and mistakenly conclude that...
How many more choices do we have now than 10 years ago? No less than 100 times more, probably 1000 times more. 1000 times more people talking and sending out newsletters, and only you can decide who to pay attention to. 1000 times more places to spend or invest your money. 1000 times more...
“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.” by Tony Robbins Being in the comfort zone is the primary cause for laziness in most of the people. It is similar to the gravitational field. You got to do some real work against it in order to break its barriers. It’s happy and...
Creativity: These are some other books on creativity that you might like. It is unlikely that you will learn new “techniques” because most of these have been covered in the required reading, but you might think you have because you find a particular anecdote or mode of presentation to be powerful. Browse away. Ackoff,...
Mark Joyner is a #1 best-selling author of over a dozen books translated in almost as many languages. He is widely recognized as one of the early pioneers of e-commerce, responsible for inventing, pioneering, and popularizing many of the technologies we take for granted today (including remotely-hosted ad tracking, electronic books, Integration Marketing, and...
Howard’s talents were discovered while he was counting peas. He was still a child when, while having lunch at his home in Bournemouth on the British South Coast, he started to complain badly that his brother Duncan “had two more peas” – after a glance at both plates. His parents recounted the peas and...
“I believe in abundance, I desire abundance, I receive abundance.” Shakti Gawain Let’s revisit the three examples from the beginning of this article, to determine how behavior might change in these circumstances with an Abundance mentality. One who believes that there is plenty for all would not waste energy competing with others. They would...
My boss is the smartest guy I know… I’m not just saying it because he signs my paychecks. Seriously, I mean it. He does things most bosses don’t do. It’s made him a wealthy man. And it’s made many of his employees more money than they’d ever dreamed of. He worked his way up...
Breakthroughs! by P. Ranganath Nayak This is the story about the people and companies behind fourteen of the most successful 20th century commercial breakthroughs: the VCR, the Post-it note, ChemLawn, Tagamet, the Walkman, The CAT Scanner, the microwave oven, Toyota manufacturing system, Nike, Nautilus, propylene, Federal Express, Club Med, and the compact disk.] The...
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Let’s pretend that the diagram below belongs to you—that this is the shape of the all-important mindset that defines your general BrainMap Profile—and that it depicts how your brain thinks (even though it is only a sample of the many “maps” you’ll be getting). With the very first “map” served up by your online...
50. Stay focused. 49. Divide your time for each task in hand. 48. Analyze the outcome of your effort and decide accordingly how much time you need to spend. 47. Take a break. 46. Spend time with your loved ones. 45. Share ideas with others. 44. Keep your home office out of sight from...
“The Advanced Leadership Clinic by Srikumar S. Rao is a unique program designed for exceptionally talented executives actively looking for exponential improvement in performance. It will enable you to smash all previous achievement records and take you to new highs of personal effectiveness. Expect it to turbo-charge your career and take you to a...
Seeking meaning? Seeking connectedness? Looking to create a better world through social change? Does this sound like a mid-career manager suffering burnout? Surprise…it’s today’s teen. Why do Teens Matter? Teens matter because they are shaping the way the world will be tomorrow. With 300-400 million teens around the world their mindset is shaping the...
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For people overwhelmed by choices…solutions for fast and confident decision makers. Small organizations tend to be more efficient than large ones because in a large group it is easier to separate decisions from their consequences. In general we make better decisions when the consequences affect us and we make poorer decisions when they don’t....
It was 1898. James Webb Young dropped out of school and started working for a book publisher. He was 12 years old. By the time he turned 22, he was advertising manager. In 1912, he joined the prestigious advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. And he quickly became known as an “idea man.” In 1917,...
Each individual will define excellence in a deeply personal way. Consider these five questions while envisioning the quality that you desire for your life and career: What would your vision of excellence look like if it had no restrictions, and you knew that you could achieve it? In what areas of your life are...
Intuitions are sudden, strong judgments whose origin cannot be immediately explained. They seem to emerge from an obscure inner force, but they actually begin with a fleeting perception that starts a mental process. Science attempts to explain intuition as a kind of “mental matching game,” in which the brain absorbs a given situation then...
talk about exactly what you will get today: )Traffic Through Backlinks, Content Distribution and Dynamic Linking Strategy & Action Cashmaps One of the fastest ways to drive a flood of people to your website is through search engine optimization (SEO) via content distribution, back links, and dynamic linking. When you apply these tactics, you’ll...
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The fastest way to learn ANYTHING Sure, there are seriously important things to learn in data structures, algorithms, and methodologies, but the fastest way to learn programming (the fastest way to learn ANYTHING) is to try to solve your own problems, not the stock rote example problems you’ll find in books. If you want...
“Writing or reviewing a mission statement changes you because it forces you to think through your priorities deeply, carefully, and to align your behaviour with your beliefs” Stephen Covey 1. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.) 2. What are your favorite things to do in the past? What about now?...