An Alabama mother has been charged with endangering the welfare of her teenager. The teenager was sitting in a cardboard box on top of her minivan down a main road. Albertville cops arrested the 37-year-old mother. Police collected a number of phone calls that a minivan on the highway had a child riding on top. [...]
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Dear Readers, When I launched my project in October 2008, I launched my blog in French and English at the same time, for several reasons, but particularly because I wanted to make an impact in the English blogging world and to make my project known to most of the participants in the Personal MBA. Since [...]
News books and New Category
With the review of Making Things Happen, I have finished the 10 books in the Productivity & Effectiveness category of the Personal MBA. This is an important step for me and I am happy to have reached it. I am going to pause this week mostly to be able to offer you articles summarizing what [...]
Interview with Josh Kaufman and First Review
Josh Kaufman, creator of the Personal MBA, interviewed me recently. You will find the interview on the Personal MBA site. In particular I described my time as an entrepreneur, how I discovered the Personal MBA, how the idea came to me for my crazy challenge, and I give some advice to people who might be [...]
GTD, Implementation – 1
1 – Choice of central tool for the system – difficult This week, as promised, I am focused on implementing GTD. The least I can say is that it’s not simple. Especially due to the number of available electronic applications, and because I want to, and must, have a system for collecting and processing that [...]
A week without books – Implementing GTD and thinking
As i wrote in my previous article about 10 pearls of wisdom, I have decided not to read a book this week so that I can focus on implementing the GTD method. This method is, in fact, very promising and I think that I can save a lot of time in the long term, but [...]
Erika Andersen sent me a signed copy of her book
Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees, which is in 37th position on my list, stumbled upon my project and liked it very much to the point that she sent me a signed copy of her book by express mail, with her encouragement! Thank you Erica, I appreciate your gesture and your support very [...]
My crazy project: Read 52 of the best business books in 52 weeks, and post a weekly review here on my blog
"You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library." – Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), Good Will Hunting First of all I want to introduce myself to those who don’t know me: I am Olivier Roland, I’m 27, I’m French and I manage [...]