From TED.com In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk. Mark Bittman is a bestselling cookbook author, […]
How to build your creative confidence
– David Kelley
March 29, 2014 By
From TED.com Is your school or workplace divided into “creatives” versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create… (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated […]
Killer American diet sweeping the planet
– Dean Ornish
March 28, 2014 By
From TED.com Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined — and it’s mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating habits will save lives. Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He’s […]
Getting to YES
– Roger Fisher and William L. Ury
March 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury. Reissued in 1991 with additional authorship credit to Bruce Patton, the book made appearances for years on the Business Week” Best Seller” list. The book suggests a method called “principled negotiation or negotiation of merits.” Members of the Harvard Negotiation […]
Positioning
– Al Ries and Jack Trout
March 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
A business book classic, it is the first book to deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public, Positioning describes a revolutionary approach to creating a “position” in a prospective customer’s mind – one that reflects a company’s own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors. [From: Troutandpartners.com] Al Ries attended high […]
Less stuff, more happiness
– Graham Hill
March 4, 2014 By
From TED.com Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life. Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com; he travels the world to tell the story of sustainability, and tweets […]
McDonald’s: Behind The Arches
– John F. Love
March 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment
McDonald’s is the story of an American business success, a company that proved the value of hard work, ingenuity, trial and error, and gut instincts. In McDonald’s: Behind the Arches, business writer John F. Love tells the astonishing story of the people and the strategies, the innovation and the brilliance that turned a single hamburger stand into a […]
How to Win Friends & Influence People
– Dale Carnegie
February 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
You can go after the job you want…and get it! You can take the job you have…and improve it! You can take any situation you’re in…and make it work for you!Since its release in 1936, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold more than 15 million copies. Dale Carnegie’s first book is a timeless bestseller, […]
Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15, 2014 By
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. He was born Michael King, but his father changed his name in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther. A Baptist minister, King became […]
Only the Paranoid Survive
– Andrew S. Grove
January 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Only The Paranoid Survive: How To Exploit The Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company And Career New Edition is an excellent book by Andrew S. Grove that aims to motivate every manager to expect the unexpected in his business after applying the techniques and principles he has stated. [From: Flipkart.com] “The Lesson is, we all need […]
