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2022-04-14 06:47:41 Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action

'Start With Why' is about a naturally occurring pattern, a way of
thinking, acting and communicating that gives some leaders the ability to inspire those around them.

In early 1900s, two teams, unknown to each other, embarked upon the same quest- the quest to fly. Samuel
Langley was a well known professor with powerful friends like Andrew Carnegie & Alexander Graham Bell. With a grant of $50,000 and a team comprising some of the best brains of the time, Langley set off to fly. At the same time in Dayton, Ohio, the Wright Brothers put together a prototype in their humble bicycle shop, without any funding or any top notch team. On December 17th 1903, Wright Brothers became the first men to fly. Why did a well-funded and better qualified team fail in front of humble bicycle workshop owners? Do we know the real reason behind why some organisations succeed and some don't? Read on to find out. Open / Comment

2022-04-08 06:34:12 Rework: Change The Way You Work Forever

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses.

What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you. Open / Comment

2022-04-02 14:25:24 The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide To Personal Freedom

In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. Open / Comment

2022-03-30 10:41:07 The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses

Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures would have been preventable if the Lean Startup methodology had been followed. In this Lean Startup summary, we’ll give you the key takeaways you need in a succinct way, but with enough detail, so you fully understand those key concepts.

The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want — and learning it quickly. It’s about continuously testing what you think your customers might want and adapting based on the results — and doing this before you run out of money.

The book was written by Eric Ries, who used Lean Startup principles to grow his company (IMVU) from a fledgling startup to a business with a $50 million annual turnover. Open / Comment

2022-03-19 10:20:14 Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Mind

The gist of Think Straight focuses on the number of thoughts a person has per day, and pointless most of those are. The author, Darius Foroux, doubts the productivity of a ‘preoccupied’ mind. In this book, he explains how our thoughts tend to work against us, instead of for us.

By admitting that people have no control over their minds, people let their minds free. Instead, one must master their mind. Foroux says that people have the choice of what they think, however people rarely use it. Once the mind is brought in control, we can revolutionize every aspect of our life.

Foroux is an entrepreneur, blogger, and podcaster. He is the co-founder of a laundry technology company, while his blogs focus on life, productivity, and business. His podcast, called The Darius Foroux Show, has hosted several ‘thought’ leaders. ‘Thought’ leaders consist of leaders who propagate a certain flow of thought. Open / Comment

2022-03-12 07:59:13 How To Talk To Anyone: 92 Little Trics For Big Success

How to Talk to Anyone is a psychology-backed book that offers guidance on effective communication. Lowndes covers a wide range of communication types, broken down into verbal and nonverbal, across almost every possible context. Your approach should adapt depending on who you are talking to and the specific context. So, How to Talk to Anyone offers guidance on how you can become a master communicator. As a master communicator, you can connect with others irrespective of the environment. Open / Comment

2022-03-07 08:08:57 Ego Is the Enemy: The Fight To Master Our Greatest Opponent

The Ego is the Enemy draws on a vast array of stories and examples, from literature to philosophy to history. We meet fascinating figures like Howard Hughes, Katharine Graham, Bill Belichick, and Eleanor Roosevelt, all of whom reached the highest levels of power and success by conquering their own egos. Their strategies and tactics can be ours as well.

But why should we bother fighting ego in an era that glorifies social media, reality TV, and other forms of shameless self-promotion?  Armed with the lessons in this book, as Holiday writes, “you will be less invested in the story you tell about your own specialness, and as a result, you will be liberated to accomplish the world-changing work you’ve set out to achieve.” Open / Comment