The Tactics, Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons and World-Class Performers Champion snowboarder Shaun White reveals that he always approaches major competitions with both serious goals (win the Vancouver Olympics) and silly goals (wear stars-and-stripes
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Friday Book Review! Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole
Growing up on Long Island, young Anthony Scaramucci had only one dream: to own his own company. In his book, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success, Scaramucci, a hedge fund
Continue ReadingFriday Book Review! Be the Business by Martha Heller
The information-age tidal wave has submerged our companies and organizations. If the IT department was once contained in a room where brainy technologists worked their magic, today every office, every desk, every employee and manager
Continue ReadingFriday Book Review! The Network Imperative by Jerry Wind, Megan Beck, Barry Libert
Not too many years ago, the idea of a hotel chain that didn’t own a single building or an international taxi service that didn’t own any cars might have seemed ludicrous. Today, of course, we
Continue ReadingReview: Living Forward by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy
Most people don’t plan their lives, write Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy, authors of Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want. Instead, people drift through the years, going
Continue ReadingReview: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss Never Split the Difference, a new book on negotiation, presents an alternative to Getting to Yes, the classic text by Roger Fisher and William Ury of Harvard. For
Continue Reading11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want
Dave Kerpen, the author of The Art of People, has developed a remarkable career around a key skill: being likeable. Kerpen is the founder of a social-media software company called Likeable Local as well as
Continue ReadingReview: #AskGaryVee by Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk is the prototypical social-media business success. The son of a wine shop owner, Vaynerchuk started a video blog called Wine Library TV — a quirky discussion about wine by a young man who
Continue ReadingReview: How to Have a Good Day by Caroline Webb
When someone would tell comedian George Carlin to “have a nice day,” Carlin would react angrily: “What if I don’t want to have a nice day?” Unlike Carlin, most of us would prefer to have
Continue ReadingReview: Originals by Adam Grant
Throughout history, there have been extraordinary people who, in Wharton professor Adam Grant’s elegant phrase, “moved the world.” Grant calls these people “originals” because they are nonconformists who are unimpressed with the status quo and
Continue ReadingReview: Driven to Delight by Joseph A. Michelli
For most of its storied history, Mercedes-Benz has been a very product-focused company, and with good reason. The brand was built on the quality and durability of its luxury cars. In the last decade of
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