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An an easy-to-use guide to solving these issues and improving productivity and performance by focusing on the small steps that accomplish big things. Every future goal, complicated task, and healthy habit can be broken down into simple, measurable, and tiny skills that can be easily practiced and mastered by removing obstacles, overcoming assumptions, and maximizing your potential at work and in life. This small-steps approach to success will help...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jon Gordon's The Energy Bus
Positive people and positive teams manifest positive outcomes. The key ingredient? Positive energy.
In The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy (2007), Jon Gordon explains how to cultivate positive energy in your life and career, which you then can share with your coworkers, customers, organization, team, friends, and family. Gordon uses the...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.
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1) The definition of an investment is clear: it's an operation which, after careful analysis, promises safety of principal and adequate returns.
2) There are three parts to the process of investing. First, before buying a stock, you must make a thorough analysis of a company and the soundness of its underlying businesses. Second, you need to protect...
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In Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million. This has spawned an underground industry of for-profit ambulances often run by people with little or no training or certification. An exception in this ethically fraught, cutthroat industry, the Ochoa family struggles to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care.When a crackdown by corrupt police pushes the family into...
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Ami Satou works for Cobara, a company that specializes in sweets. While she may be good at sales, her confidence in pretty much everything else is low, which is why she hasn't even thought about dating since college. Instead, she fills up her imagination with romantic scenes from shoujo manga.
When she meets Alain Giraud, a handsome, older French man in charge of a new project she's assigned to work on, she begins to struggle to keep that romantic...
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"In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens' multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband Guy Sarvananthan to face the fallout--and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Why not: He takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which...
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This alphabet book brings the topic of economics down to a child's level, using tangible examples and scenarios to explain complex ideas. M is for Money uses snappy rhymes and expository text to introduce subjects ranging from supply and demand to taxes. Dynamic and witty artwork brings each topic to life.
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Das analoge Organisationssystem - bestechend einfach und hilfreich
Der Erfinder der Bullet-Journal-Methode, Ryder Carroll, zeigt in seinem Hörbuch, wie wir endlich zum Piloten unseres Lebens werden und nicht länger Passagier bleiben. Seine Methode hilft uns, mit einer strukturierten Lebensweise achtsamer und konzentrierter zu werden. Inzwischen lassen sich Millionen Menschen von ihm inspirieren. Er erklärt seine Philosophie und zeigt, wie wir Klarheit...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits
Conceiving, designing, creating, and delivering a product is a difficult process that generates huge pressure and requires a balance between client and business needs. Teresa Torres's Continuous Discovery Habits (2021) lays out the basic elements of an effective and sustainable product discovery approach. She details how teams of managers, designers, and engineers...
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"It's the Manager" by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter offers management insights for improving workplace culture and employee engagement. It underscores the critical role of managers in shaping successful organizations by adapting to modern work dynamics and employee expectations. The book emphasizes the need for a purpose-driven workplace that caters to the aspirations of younger generations and outlines strategies for effective leadership and communication....
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"2030" by Mauro F. Guillén explores transformative global trends affecting society and the economy by 2030. It delves into demographic shifts, technological advancements, and environmental challenges, offering insights on navigating these changes. This book summary highlights the importance of adapting to decreasing birth rates, aging populations, and the rise of the sharing economy, Guillén presents a future where collaboration and sustainability...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Mike Michalowicz's The Pumpkin Plan
Pumpkins come in different sizes, shapes, colors, and conditions, but they all start to look the same when you take picky kids to a pumpkin patch - except for one. There's always one extraordinary, enormous, prize-winning pumpkin that draws all the attention. In The Pumpkin Plan (2012), Mike Michalowicz explains how just like in a pumpkin patch, among entrepreneurs, only the...
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Summary of Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There generalizes from his personal experience as a business consultant to explain how successful leaders can diagnose and correct interpersonal problems that are holding them back at work. Using data-driven analysis and simple behavioral modification techniques, senior executives and other leaders can improve their relationships with employees by adopting an attitude of humility and...
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Summary of Mohamed A. El Erian's The Only Game in Town is a discussion of the role of central banks in confronting the current financial and economic dangers facing the world. Following the financial collapse of 2008, central banks pursued aggressive and innovative policies in an effort to stabilize the world economy. Policy makers have failed to enact the measures necessary to ensure growth, and so central banks have had to continue to innovate and...
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Buy now to get the key takeaways from Brian Tracy's No Excuses.
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1) Before seeking success, you must know yourself and what your ideal future looks like. Define your own idea of what success is.
2) Success is not about luck. It can be predicted and achieved through actions. Many successful people started out poor. The basic principle is that nature does not play favorites. You reap what you sow, so putting in the hard work will...
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Summary of Larry Olmsted's Real Food/Fake Food is an investigative overview of the food industry's often intentional efforts to mislead consumers about the origin and identity of the products that they eat. Author Larry Olmsted highlights the most outrageous examples of food frauds perpetrated upon the American people and offers recommendations for ways that consumers can reclaim their grocery bags and fill their dinner plates with foods they can...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Jack D. Schwager's Unknown Market Wizards
Unknown Market Wizards (2020) is a continuation of the Market Wizards series that trader Jack D. Schwager started in 1989. This time, instead of talking to famed traders, Schwager set out to see if he could find traders who are little known even though they have a long record of success. To his amazement, he found not one but eleven with great track records. In Unknown...
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Buy now to get the Key Takeaways from James Rickards's The New Great Depression.
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1) SARS-CoV-2 is a deadly virus more commonly known as coronavirus. The resulting disease from the virus is called Covid-19. Some infections produce no symptoms at all, while others cause lung inflammation, which leads to difficulty breathing and a myriad of other potential symptoms and complications.
2) The pandemic began in Wuhan, China. Like...
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