How to be the best you can be? That is what “Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success” covers. Being intrinsically driven. Covering the pursuit of excellence. Covering the pressure from work and society. Making an increasing number of people in the world miserable, hopeless, suffering, and
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Purpose Andro Donovan’s “Motivate yourself” is probably one of the best books on finding your purpose. If not the best, it is definitely the most practical. Purpose is the new black Purpose is the new black in business. It helps you to scale your company as described in “exponential organisations“, it helps you to
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Drawdown Of all the books I have read about climate change, this is the best. It made me realise how shameful we are behaving as a civilisation. Not sure if we even deserve the word “civilisation”. The definition is “the stage of human social development and organisation which is considered most advanced”. We are going
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Before I read this book I would say anything environmental, AI, robotics, biotech (that include genetics), IoT, neuroscience, space, gaming and health. There is an obvious overlap between those sectors. Just imagine a huge box full of Lego blocks, combining these technologies with mobile, nano, virtual reality, big data, augmenting, biomimicry, material science, quantum physics
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The gap between brand and reality is something we talk about a lot with our clients. IKEA fan I was a fan of IKEA. I think their business model is fantastic and they seem to be a company that has a sense of purpose. Not an IKEA fan Since last week I had to revise
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“Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future” is from the authors of “The Second Machine Age”, which is a must-read book for every CEO who truly wants to understand exponential and reinvention. It is one of our anchor books in most sessions we do with Bookbuzz clients. High hopes I had high hopes for their
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You can learn a lot from Navy SEALs People that follow me know I am a fan of Navy SEALs. Hence the reason I picked up “Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life and maybe the world” by William H. McRaven. He is a former United States Navy admiral who last served
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What business books to read over the summer? We get that question a lot. Time to switch off The first answer is that you should consider not reading a business book. I have started the Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series and I would highly recommend that first. Time to switch off, recharge the battery and
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“Difference.” I am a fan of Bernadette Jiwa. Her book “Difference” was an interesting read and an interesting take on marketing. About meaning, emotion, storytelling, caring, empathy and “tiny markets of someone”. She introduced “The Difference Model”. The model is built around six pillars: principles, purpose, people, personal, perception and product. A marketing version of the
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Climate change Below you will find two perspectives on climate change. A dark one and an optimistic one. The dark one The dark one is “The end of Western Civilisation, a view from the future”.Written as if a hundred year in the future, looking back on how we messed up the response to climate change.
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