Learn Management in the form of a Story – book review of The Goal book I was expecting to read another management book broken up by non-fiction style topics and how-to format. I was pleasantly surprised when it read like a novel. Real characters, and not just office characters – but wife, kids, parents, the whole set. I was recommended …
Psycho-Cybernetics Book Review
Loved This Book – Bought Original Paperback Version I got a used copy of the original (see my photo) based on recommendations in these reviews on Amazon – I haven’t read the new version – but wow – I am blown away by this book. Highly recommend for everyone who is doing high pressure type work and wants to think …
Fight Club – Movie or Book, Which is better?
So I Have Watched The Movie 10+ Times – Still Enjoyed the book It is true, the book is always better than the movie. Watching this movie in 1999 in New York City Theaters and I remember how much influence on my way of thinking, to challenge the hamster wheel, just as I was starting college. Of course the book …
Buy Then Build: Book Review
Buy Then Build – Book Review As I prepare to go to the Invest Like a Boss podcast meetup here in Chiang Mai on Jan 3 – I felt I should catch up on some reading about investing and this one was a new one with amazing reviews so I couldn’t help myself. Buy Then Build is a book about …
Book Review: No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners
Buddhism, something we are surrounded with here in Thailand. Been on a reading frenzy lately – basically when I go out with the wife and kids I slip my kindle in my pocket and read while they are playing or in spare time. Been pretty effective way to get through books. The format of the book was very digestible, as …
Leveraging Life Force 8 – Cashvertising Book Review
If you are doing any kind of business writing – you need to learn from Cashvertising and the life force 8 (lf8), today we discuss
Book Review – Fully Lived: Keep things flowing – keep things going.
Life is going pretty fast – but the key is to keep them going and flowing. Back from Bangkok, a small jet lag (one hour difference) still affects my morning routine as it takes a day or so to get the exact timing of wake up and going to sleep right. Think I’m doing better than previous conferences, in the …
Julian Hosp Book Review
Just finished reading a fantastic book by Dr. Julian Hosp! I was fortunate to get connected to him and interview him for the Global From Asia podcast. Reading his book has inspired me on some new initiatives and I want to share today a bit about what I learned. Wish I Read This Earlier I guess that is true with …
Book Review – How to Be a Power Connector
A couple months ago my friend Chris Moore sent over a podcast episode on I Love Marketing podcast that he felt would be perfect for me. It about managing and leveraging your contacts. Judy Robinett was the one interviewed. She resonated with me about how to organize and strategically think about your relationships. Got me enough to buy her book …
Book Review- Startupland
I was fortunate enough to attend Mikkel Svane’s (Zendesk founder and CEO) presentation of his startup journey founding the company in Denmark to relocating to SF and the recent IPO. I’m really happy he also stopped by Shenzhen on his China visit – as a lot of people are unaware of the size and ability of the tech community here. …
Book Review: Zombie Loyalists -> I’ve Been Bitten!
Just finished reading the new book by Peter Shankman, “Zombie Loyalists”. I’m so excited I devoured the book as soon as it was released a couple weeks ago, and just finished it over the weekend. I listened to Peter speak as keynote at a DCBKK in 2013 (Dynamite Circle mastermind conference and he really moved me at that speech, discussing …
Speaking at Shenzhen Startup Tuesday, about USA Startup weekend & book review
For those of ya’ll in Shenzhen, China – stop by tomorrow night at Shenzhen Marketing’s startup tuesday at Chaihuo makerspace. I’m going to be presenting on the concept of Startup Weekend and go through what I learned when reading the book by the guys who are driving Startup Weekend globally. I’ll also explain the expansion plan in China, get ideas …
Adapt, Why Success Always Starts With Failure – Book Review
Committed my Sunday afternoon to finishing this book “Adapt, Why Success Always Starts with Failure” by Tim Harford, this excerpt really got my interest we are blinder than we think (page 17)….Humans cannot make the right decision every time, we have to learn by failure, we have to have courage to try, and have to have the right balance of …
Revisiting Lifestyle Design, Great Reading on a Rainy Sunday
I’ve been a fan of Tim Ferris’s Four Hour Work Week book, reading it back in 2007 and partially reflecting on it in the blog Life on the Road post…but today was a rainy Sunday afternoon in Shenzhen and spent a lot of my afternoon reading through the it, chillin on the couch at Andy + Rica‘s place. Again, part …
Movie Review – The Social Network, A Facebook Story
FINALLY got to watch the facebook movie “The Social Network”, and wow, it is AMAZING, really has not much to do with the actual making of the technology and marketing of facebook, but does bring home the struggles and problems in doing business with friends, and not having clearly defined roles and exit strategies for partners. I’m not gonna ruin …