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If Anyone Can Build Anything, What’s Left to Defend?
Not so long ago, software took twenty people and six months. Today one person can ship it in a weekend.…
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business insights to shift your paradigm
I write from distilled experience and acute observation. Written by a CEO for CEOs.
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The Loneliness at the Top
To do your job effectively, you can't come down from the top, you are needed up there, the work is…
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Eating Your Own Dogfood
For more than two decades now, I’ve rarely eaten dinner late into the night. I try to eat before sunset…
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What You Tolerate, You Endorse
Tolerating bad behavior feels like kindness. It's actually a transfer of pain, from the person who earned it to everyone…
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Move the Needle
With one of my coachees we delivered 52.5x growth in share price over six years. Looking back, the operating principle…
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When the Founder Becomes the Bottleneck
At the last webinar, I spoke about the founder’s mindset and how it differs from an entrepreneurial mindset. Successful startups…
Bill Gates
Microsoft Founder
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Investment Legend
Jeff Bezos
Amazon Founder
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they are old, you say? well, maybe... but that's not it.
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From a library of international bestsellers, these hand-picked titles represent the most powerful catalysts for personal and professional transformation.
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The Innovator’s Dilemma
This book will help you:
Understand why great companies fail and how to avoid disruption in your industry
Influence
This book will help you:
Develop magnetic charisma and build powerful relationships that accelerate your success
Seeking Wisdom
This book will help you:
Acquire mental models from Darwin to Munger that help you make better decisions in life and business
The Upside of Irrationality
This book will help you:
Harness the hidden forces that shape our decisions to improve your life and work
The Long Tail
This book will help you:
Profit from niche markets and discover why the future of business is selling less of more
The Lean Startup
This book will help you:
Launch successful businesses faster with less waste using revolutionary entrepreneurial methods
LIFE REFLECTIONS
philosophy that makes you think
More than 400 reflections on all things life
Finding Purpose
Two Types of Anger
"The same fire that warms up a room can burn down the house too. Anger results from misdirected emotions."
Overcoming Fear
Sankalpa: The Practice of Resolve
"<i>Sankalpa</i> is often compared to the perfectly stable and still Himalayas. A sincere seeker's resolve is like the Himalayas."
Building Resilience
How to Overcome Anger
"Let go of your anger, let it sink like the setting sun behind the horizon. Here are three practices."
Creating Balance
A Random Act of Kindness
"The question of my bread is a material question, but of my neighbor's bread is a spiritual question. ~Nikolai Berdyaev"
Embracing Change
The Course of Grief
"Grief has a life of its own. Like a river charts its own course, grief too must flow before it can merge into the sea of life."
Mastering Emotions
Be Grateful
"Be grateful for all of life's colors; that's what makes life worth living. Stop complaining."
Achieving Success
The Secret of Healthy Relationships
"Loving and living are not synonyms. Loving may be an emotional matter but living together is mostly about practicality."
Finding Peace
Purity of Intention
"When your focus is singular and your intention pure, the fragrant flowers of success blossom naturally."
Building Relationships
The Art of Discipline
"With persistence and discipline, 'Impossible' becomes 'I'm possible'. That's how our race has progressed."