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 [...]
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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 [...]
The Unwritten Laws of Business
One Sentence Summary: To succeed in your career, you must understand and apply many unwritten rules with respect to the work, the chain of command, colleagues, project management, the organizational structure, what managers expect from their subordinates, character, personality, and personal development; sometimes these laws seem obvious but even so, those presented in this [...]
The Creative Habit – Learn it and use it for life
One Sentence Summary: Creativity is learned, nourished and maintained; for inspiration to flow through us and spring forth from the mind, you must prepare, have rituals that invoke it, to know our creative DNA – what we are made for, use our memory and connect disparate things with each other, organize work documents so that [...]
Lead the Field
One-Sentence Summary : To succeed in life you can’t just count on luck and circumstances; you must find hidden nuggets inside yourself rather than trapsing around the world in vain looking for them, have goals and desires and define them clearly, have an attitude that sets you up for success and love yourself, use your [...]
45 effective ways for Hiring Smart
How to predict winners & losers in the incredibly expensive people-reading game One Sentence Summary: Making a hiring error can be very expensive – around two and a half times the salary of the person hired if you catch the error six months later – and the success of a company depends on the [...]
Strengths Finder 2.0 : Now, discover your Strengths
One Sentence Summary : Our society does not put enough emphasis on our strengths, yet knowing and developing them is extremely important for our success and our happiness; Strengths Finder 2.0 lets you discover precisely what they are and work on them to help you become a better you. by Tom Rath, 175 pages, [...]
10 Days to Faster Reading + Free BONUS speed reading test
One Sentence Summary: Reading fast is a professional and personal asset, it is possible to improve your reading speed significantly by using various techniques and methods, like the use of guides (cards, fingers, pens…) or skimming, scanning and skipping … and plenty of others. by Abby Marks Beale, 200 pages, published in 2001. Summary [...]