Book and Content Reviews - Personal Growth

  • Picture of book cover for eight to be great

    8 to be Great

    This is for people who want to grow their professional skill set. The book is a short motivational read that should take no longer than a few hours to read to get what you need.

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    Drive

    This book is for anyone who is interested in motivation and goal setting, both in business and in their personal life. Drive is an unconventional look at business environments, management styles, mindset, parenting, and productivity.

  • Book cover picture for eat people.

    Eat People

    This book is for anyone who is interested in the business of technology innovation, and the responsibilities of entrepreneurs for a productive and advanced society. This is the main idea: we should support ideas and technologies that eliminate jobs.

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    Enchantment

    Enchantment is an inspiring set of guiding principles to grow yourself and your company into a trusted and inspiring brand. This book is for anyone who is looking to make progress in their career by developing or sharpening their interpersonal skills and/or becoming competent in the world of social media.

  • Image of the book cover for Mindset, the new psychology of success.

    Mindset

    This book is for anyone who is interested in learning about the growth and fixed mindset. Dweck argues that there are two types of outlooks people can have: a fixed mindset is someone who believes that their ability comes from the role of the dice at birth and it is fixed in stone and there is little (or nothing) they can do to improve -- while a growth mindset is someone who believes that they can learn from struggle and improve on their natural talent.

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    Practical Genius

    This book is for anyone planning their career. The book provides a simple process to take your special hard and soft skills and map them to different careers that leverage your unique qualities.

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    Pulse

    This book is for product managers and marketing people. The book describes how to leverage the Internet to measure trends in real-time, and describes tools for inexpensive and real-time measurement methodologies.

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    Speed Reading for Business

    This is a must-read for everyone, even if your goal is not to read a page per second and a book a day. With the techniques provided, you will find you can easily double or triple your speed and increase your recall of the content.

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    Switch

    This book is for all professionals. Although we are faced with change almost daily, most of us don’t know how it works, how to follow through with it, or if it’s worth the time and effort. This book is for anyone who is interested in learning how change works.