The Best Highlights from Lessons in Leadership by Jonathan Sacks When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually …
The Best Highlights from 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story by Dan Harris “Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that …
The Best Highlights from How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity. Criticism is futile because it puts …
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The Best Highlights from Sapiens By Yuval Noah Harari The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and groups. This glue has made us the masters of creation. The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity …
The Best Highlights From Founders at Work By Jessica Livingston Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want. Maybe somebody has a need and, in our …
The Best Highlights From The Hard Thing About Hard Things By Ben Horowitz Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not …
The Best Highlights from The Lean Startup By Eric Ries What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly. As you …
The Best Highlights From Zero to One By Peter Thiel and Blake Masters As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important dimension to lead to a real monopolistic advantage. The perfect target market for a startup is a small …
The Best Highlights from Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s …
The 4-Hour Workweek Timothy Ferriss Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro …
