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How to Win Friends and influence people»rank: 192par: Dale Carnegie
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. lt was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and lnfluence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to 'the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.' He teaches these ... |
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking»rank: 101par: Malcolm Gladwell
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. lt was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and lnfluence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to 'the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.' He teaches these ... |
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Getting Things Done»rank: 288par: David Allen
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, 'flow', 'mind like water', and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-dos clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western ... |
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The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down»rank: 131par: Peter D. Schiff
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, 'flow', 'mind like water', and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-dos clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western ... |
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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge»rank: 231de: Project Management Institute
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, 'flow', 'mind like water', and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you'd almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-dos clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western ... |
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't»rank: 278par: Jim Collins
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, 'Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?' ln Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits ... |
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Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)»rank: 314par: William Marsden
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Five years ago, Jim Collins asked the question, 'Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?' ln Good to Great Collins, the author of Built to Last, concludes that it is possible, but finds there are no silver bullets. Collins and his team of researchers began their quest by sorting through a list of 1,435 companies, looking for those that made substantial improvements in their performance over time. They finally settled on 11--including Fannie Mae, Gillette, Walgreens, and Wells Fargo--and discovered common traits ... |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything»rank: 194par: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Chroniques et points de vue: :Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. ln Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could ... |
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Tax-Free Savings Accounts»rank: 140par: Gordon Pape
Chroniques et points de vue: :Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. ln Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could ... |
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Call Me Ted»rank: 124par: Ted Turner, Bill Burke
Chroniques et points de vue: :Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. ln Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: They could ... |