Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence earning him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. His books including, Influence: Science & Practice, are the result of decades of peer-reviewed research on why people comply with requests. Influence has sold over 2 […]
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
– Stephen Covey
May 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Stephen R. Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, has been a top-seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its fifteenth year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword […]
Should you live for your résumé … or your eulogy?
– David Brooks
May 27, 2014 By
From TED.com Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love — the values that make for a great eulogy. (Joseph Soloveitchik has called these selves “Adam I” and “Adam II.”) Brooks asks: […]
How do we heal medicine?
– Dr. Atul Gawande
May 26, 2014 By
From TED.com Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine — with fewer cowboys and more pit crews. Surgeon by day and […]
First, Break all the Rules
– Marcus Buckingham
May 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
First, Break All the Rules, subtitled What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999), is a book authored by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, who offer solutions to better employee satisfaction with the help of examples of how the best managers handle employees. The book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for 93 weeks. Business authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman discuss the fallacies of standard management thinking and […]
I’m Going to Succeed because I’m Crazy!
May 20, 2014 By
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The Art Of The Start
– Guy Kawasaki
May 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The Art of the Start is a popular 2004 business book written by Guy Kawasaki. It focuses on entrepreneurship and key points about starting a business, bootstrapping, and pitching new ideas to potential investors. Kawasaki opens by listing the five most important things an entrepreneur must accomplish: Make Meaning: How will you make the world a better place? Make Mantra. […]
The E-Myth Revisited
– Michael E. Gerber
May 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Never before have so many people entertained the idea of starting their own business. If this applies to you, before you take the leap, read this book. The E-Myth came out in 1985 and became an underground bestseller, with over a million copies sold. The initial edition became quite hard to get, but luckily Gerber brought […]
Why Do We Fall
May 16, 2014 By
“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion” Why do we fall? We fall to only know what we have not done, how far we have not gone, when perhaps we could have. When we know the reasons that led us to fall, only then we can prevent another fall again. Falling helps us also move forward in a […]
