Finally decided to read one of the most-sold management books of all times. Memorable quotes In no case do we have a company that just happened to be sitting on the nose cone of a rocket when it took off. Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter […]
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Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
A leader demonstrates his commitment to get to B by his willingness to be “who he needs to be” and do “whatever it takes in the form of necessary required actons” to get to B. The world said conform, the world said settle for less, the world said compromise and no one will know… […]
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Somewhat long, but really appreciated this work by an award-winning journalist showing how a secretive family behind Purdue Pharma helped to create America’s opioid crisis. Basically the first pharma company that proactively did sales and pushed products out products at a stage when their secondary effects were not fully tested. A lot of learnings about […]
The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
Fanatical Prospecting by Jeb Blount
A great read for any person in sales to improve their Pipeline Generation activities. This was a good book about the actions, methodologies and mindset that equip the sales teams who differ the 20% from the other 80%… Setting of the time each week, and not letting anything interfere with it. Here are the key […]
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Amazing story of an interesting businesssman.. Did not save many quotes from this book, as it was not too many things learned – more of a story. Memorable quotes His business success was “attributable to being at the right place and right time and meeting the right people, coupled with a trusting relationship.” “It’s easy […]
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
As someone working in sales and doing forecasting on a daily basis, this book caught my attention 🙂 Memorable quotes I believe it is possible to see into the future, at least in some situations and to some extent, and that any intelligent, open-minded, and hardworking person can cultivate the requisite skills. In one of […]
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Memorable quotes Ed didn’t think she meant it to sound as callous as it did. But she was so laser focused on achieving her goals that she seemed oblivious to the practical implications of her decisions. Ellison might be one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of some $25 billion, […]
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Definitely one of the top 10 books I’ve read. There is so much research that has been published about the effects of sleep (and lack of it!) that we can’t afford to be ignorant of.. Matthew Walker does a great way of summarizing this, citing research after research of how we should optimize for sleep […]
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Memorable quotes We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel. …but the docility, the lack of responsibility of the modern man, his base subservient acceptance of every common decree. The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not […]
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Memorable quotes I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now. Bowerman’s strategy for running the mile was simple. Set a fast pace for the first two laps, […]
People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams by Jono Bacon
Memorable quotes This reality is producing conditions like never before for people across the globe to collaborate, share information, and build new things. Innovation is no longer just happening in labs If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. This delicious cocktail of technology, connectivity, and people […]
Winning by Jack Welch
Memorable quotes “How many of you have received an honest, straight-between-the-eyes feedback session in the last year, where you came out knowing exactly what you have to do to improve and where you stand in the organization?” On a good day, I get 20 percent of the hands up. Most of the time, it is […]
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
Memorable quotes The first is ignorance–we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works. There are skyscrapers we do not yet know how to build, snowstorms we cannot predict, heart attacks we still haven’t learned how to stop. The second type of failure the philosophers […]
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
Memorable quotes Learn something, and then it’s time to leave. So my new, simple, and regular life began. I got up before five a.m. and went to bed before ten p.m. I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up […]
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Memorable quotes In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if […]
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckeown
Memorable quotes “In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time—literally—substantial and rapidly growing […]