Memorable quotes First, disruptive products are simpler and cheaper; they generally promise lower margins, not greater profits. Second, disruptive technologies typically are first commercialized in emerging or insignificant markets. And third, leading firms’ most profitable customers generally don’t want, and indeed initially can’t use, products based on disruptive technologies. By and large, a disruptive technology […]
Tag: 2015
How to Win Friend and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
American author, company executive and leadership expert Dale Carnegie started writing this book in the 1930’s as there was, at that time – no existing literatuer on a this topic: How to succesfully (in a proven way) behave towards other people. Memorable quotes ‘Rick, I know your hotel is quite busy and you would like […]
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Memorable quotes I am often reminded of Arthur C. Clarke’s third law, that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world – Arthur Schopenhauer We’ll make another twenty years of progress in just fourteen years (by 2014), and then do the […]
Perfect Selling by Linda Richardson
A good introduction book into selling – where Linda explains a 5 step process: Connect Explore Leverage Resolve Act Linda also stresses the need for taking notes during meetings, maximizing listening/talking ratio and how customers buy from salespeople they believe understand what they want and care what is at stake for them. Memorable quotes Questioning […]
No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy, the Canadian self-help author discusses how most people give in to the two worst enemies of success: they take the path of least resistance (in other words, they’re lazy) and/or they want immediate gratification: and don’t consider the long-term consequences of the actions they take today. Memorable quotes The most important success […]
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
This is a very interesting book which brings up two different mindsets – 1) a growth mindset – seeing competencies as something that can be developed over time, fixed mindset – that your abilities are fixed and cannot be improved. Choosing either of which, has major implications in daily life as you face uncertainties or […]