Books
Textbook rant
By Seth Godin
I’ve spent the last few months looking at marketing textbooks. I’m assuming that they are fairly representative of textbooks in general, and since this is a topic I’m interested in, it seemed like a good area to focus on.
As far as I can tell, assigning a textbook to your college class is [...]
Jim Collins Backlash; My Highlights of Collins New Book
By Verne Harnish
“…keeping you great”
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Jim Collins Backlash — I received three emails from readers warning me that there’s some dissatisfaction brewing over Collins’ ideas [...]
Tired of Working For Someone Else? A Look At Carving Your Own Road
Many people reach mid-life only to realize they’re no longer happy with their job – and perhaps haven’t been happy for a long time. They want to make a change, but they’re afraid: Quitting a job to start a business or a new career is risky and scary in so many different ways.
Jennifer and Joe [...]
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions — and the end of reading alone
By STEVEN JOHNSON
Every genuinely revolutionary technology implants some kind of “aha” moment in your memory — the moment where you flip a switch and something magical happens, something that tells you in an instant that the rules have [...]
Blogs, books and the irony of short
By Seth Godin
Blogs have eliminated the reason for most business books to exist. If you can say it in three blog posts and reach more people, then waiting a year and putting in all that effort seems sort of pointless. The chances that your effort will be rewarded with income in proportion to the time [...]
Ayn Rand & Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged of Ayn Rand has been the second most influential book (after the Bible) to Entrepreneurs and Business Owners in the USA. I read it some 4 years ago and it has changed my business philosophy since. Below some information of Ayn Rand and her philosophy.
* Name: Ayn (pronounced “eye-n”) Rand
* Birthplace: St. Petersburg, [...]
Compilation of football ads… the 10,000 hour rule!!!!
Last month I read the book Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, its one the books I have enjoyed most to read and also one I have learned the most. One chapter is called “The 10,000 Hour-Rule” where he explains that to really master anything you have to practice it at least 10,000 [...]
How to Hire Employees Safely
By Erin Duckhorn
Published by Eyth Blog http://www.e-myth.com/cs/user/print/post/how-to-hire-employees-safely
Much of your business growth depends on finding the right people to staff your expanding organization, but in most companies much more time and money is devoted to choosing and purchasing equipment than to preparing for the hiring process. Something about the price and mass of a turbine engine [...]
How Blogs Helped The Four Hour Work Week Become a Best Seller – The Timothy Ferriss Interview
http://blog.mixergy.com/tim-ferriss/
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TED Interview: Tribes Author Says People, Not Ads, Build Social Networks
Seth Godin is an author and entrepreneur. His latest book, Tribes, argues that “lasting and substantive change can be best effected by a group of people connected to each other, to a leader and to an idea,” according to Publisher’s Weekly.
In an interview with Wired.com, Godin discussed the role of ego in a successful leader, [...]