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Insights from Seth Godin's The Practice. Sample Insights:
1) All journeys, whether to go to a doctor or to achieve a dream, follow a certain pattern. Courage and creativity must be found to go on such journeys and to get over the invisible forces that stop people from working and achieving great things. The practice leads to change.
2) We are used to following a path set for us in order to achieve a certain outcome. However, the new practice focuses...
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We all have trouble making decisions at times. But how many people actually try to improve their decision-making skills? Decisive: How to Make Better Decisions in Life and Work (2013) by Chip Heath and Dan Heath offers a process for reliably making the best possible decisions...
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Listen now to get the insights from Scott Galloway's Post Corona. Sample Insights:
1) Time is not constant: it can fluctuate based on change. Even the slightest event or element could produce change that has not been witnessed before, including a microscopic virus. In March 2020, America entered a new stage with the arrival of the coronavirus. Life felt static despite time speeding up.
2) The Covid-19 pandemic's most lasting impact will be as an...
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When one of the richest men in the world offers you free advice, it pays to listen. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (1997), edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham, consists of edited excerpts from Buffett's annual letters to investors at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., his holding company, dating from 1984 to 1996...
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Bargaining is a part of daily life. But what makes a skilled negotiator? In the third edition of Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People (2014), professor and author G. Richard Shell outlines a systematic and thoughtful framework for successful negotiation strategies based on insights into human psychology...
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Based on the highly acclaimed NPR podcast How I Built This with Guy Raz, this book offers priceless insights and inspiration from the world's top entrepreneurs on how to start, launch, and build a successful venture. Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the...
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Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real-world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal...
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