Earlier in the week, as part of my postings about good books for a good life, I wrote about the book on the McDonald’s business which is a great story about a very well constructed business. The BUSINESS, not the junk they produce. Only the business. A reader wrote me saying “Thanks for the MacDonalds recommendation, but […]
Hate Your Job? Here’s help…
June 9, 2014 By
12 Ridiculously Awesome Jobs You Didn’t Even Know Existed! Yes it’s from BuzzFeed… and most jobs probably don’t pay much… But hey, holidays are for dreaming…
Emotional Intelligence
– Daniel Goleman
June 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.” Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to monitor one’s […]
Execution
– Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
June 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“Execution may very well be the best business book of the year, and one of the most useful to have come around in a long time. This smart and pithy book focuses on a simple though vexing challenge: How can the leaders of an organization exhort their people to deliver on the most important goals?….It’s rare to […]
The Story Factor
– Annette Simmons
June 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Annette Simmons is founder of Group Process Consulting, specializing in helping organizations build more collaborative behaviors for bottom-line results. A popular speaker, community activist, and author of Territorial Games and A Safe Place for Dangerous Truths, she lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. [From: Amazon.com] The new material for this revised edition offers an expanded case study of storytelling in action […]
Delivering Happiness
– Tony Hsieh
June 5, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Delivering Happiness (2010) is a book by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh. It details his life as an entrepreneur, with emphasis on the founding of Link Exchange and Zappos. In 2009, Hsieh began writing Delivering Happiness over Labor Day in Lake Tahoe. He wrote most of the book stream of consciousness, often completing 3,000 word chunks a day that he would send to his editor in New York. While writing […]
Think and Grow Rich
– Napoleon Hill
June 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals with how to get rich, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help people succeed in all lines of work and to […]
Habits of happiness
– Matthieu Ricard
June 3, 2014 By
From TED.com What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment. Sometimes called the “happiest man in the world,” Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author and photographer. Why you […]
Women, Lean in …to prosper
– Sheryl Sandberg
June 1, 2014 By
From TED.com Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business. Millions of views (and a best-selling book) later, the Facebook COO talks with the woman who […]
Don’t Quit. Just DO IT
June 1, 2014 By
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