Mani Vaya

2000 Books for Ambitious Entrepreneurs - Author Interviews and Book Summaries

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On 2000 Books podcast, we interview today's top Business and self help authors and get the the most important actionable ideas from the world's greatest books for ambitious entrepreneurs. We also summarize classic business books and self help books for entrepreneurs such as Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich, Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence people, Good to Great, Lean Startup, Zero to One, Never Eat Alone, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Some of the authors interviewed include David Allen, Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Chris Brogan, Mike Michalowicz. Our goal is to provide you the best, most...

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Mani Vaya

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Mar 15, 2024

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50:[People Skills] Make your Contacts Count - Lynne Waymon | 4 Keys to design & implement a networking strategy that will help you accomplish your goals 09.11.2016

How to design & implement a networking strategy that will help you accomplish your biggest goals

49: [Self Help] The Only Way to Win - Jim Loehr| 3 Keys to building Character 07.11.2016

How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfillment in Business and Life

48:[Self Help] The Power of Story - Jim Loehr| 1 Exercise to change the story that is running your life 02.11.2016

How we can drastically change our lives by changing the stories that are constantly running in our heads

47: [Self Help] Time Paradox - Phil Zimbardo | How to live a greater life by changing your perspective on time? 01.11.2016

1. Harnessing the power of Time Perspective psychology to get the most out of our lives. 2. How to develop a balanced time perspective 3. The right way and the wrong way to be successful in life. Which way are you headed?

46:[Productivity] The Power of Full Engagement - Jim Loehr| 3 Ways to Increase your Mental Energy to perform at your very best when you need it the most 26.10.2016

1. Mobilize four key sources of energy 2. Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal 3. Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do 4. Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes

45:[Self Help] Fully Engaged - Tom Sterner| 3 ways to handle life's challenges using the practices of mindfulness 24.10.2016

How to handle life's challenges using the practices of mindfulness

44:[Productivity]Procrastination - Lenora Yuen| 3 reasons why we procrastinate and 3 ways to beat procrastination 19.10.2016

3 reasons why we procrastinate and 3 ways to stop procrastinating.

43:[Self Help] Springboard - Dr Richard Shell | 3 Actions to take in order to take control of your Personal Success 17.10.2016

1. What's your personal definition of success? 2. Why society's definition of success should not be your definition of success 3. Why happiness is overrated and how to think about happiness the right way 4. 3 specific Actions you need to take in order to take control of your success

42: [Productivity] Unsubscribe - Jocelyn Glei | 5 steps to kill email distraction and increase productivity 13.10.2016

1. Why is email addictive and how to combat the addiction? 2. Hacks to make meaningful work more addictive 3. What is switching cost and why it kills productivity and what to do about it? 4. How to write high quality emails that will get people to take action?

41:[People] Power Mentoring - Ellen Ensher |3 Step process for getting a Powerful Mentor 10.10.2016

1. The 3 step process of finding a mentor 2. How to keep a mentor once you find them 3. How to make life long relationships with your mentors 4. Busting the most popular fears people have about approaching possible mentors

40:[Strategy] Aligning Strategy & Sales - Frank Cespedes |3 key components of strategy that every entrepreneur must apply rigorously 06.10.2016

1. The 3 key components of strategy that every business must apply rigorously - from startups to Fortune 500 companies 2. Why we must resist the temptation to make every sale that comes our way? 3.Why your desk is a very dangerous place to conduct business from ? 4.Why most businesses do not get to $10M in sales and what to do about it.

39:[Social]Hug Your Customers - Jack Mitchell | 4 strategies for increasing profitability 03.10.2016

1. Why loving your customers will improve your bottom-line 2. How Passion and Long term relationships are keys to long term sustainable business 3. Why we must understand our customers more than our products 4. How to become a customer centric organization 5. How to build powerful relationships with employees so that they help you get to the next level Visit us at: http://www.2000books.com Get Fre...

38:[Marketing] Brainfluence - Roger Dooley | 1 Key to communicate with the decision making part of your customer's brain 28.09.2016

1) How to tap into that 95% of your customer's brain that ultimately makes the buying decision? 2) HOW to build a Tribe that loves your business?

37:[Entrepreneurship] Disrupt You - Jay Samit| Don't just create value. You must also Capture Value 26.09.2016

1) How to achieve success without needing to raise funds from outside investors. 2) Why fast speed to failure is every great entrepreneurs Ammunition. 3) Why as entrepreneurs, we need to not only create value, but also capture value. 4) Why there is little difference between obstacles and opportunities.

36:[Self Help] Happiness Project - Gretchen Rubin| 4 keys to get more happiness in your life 21.09.2016

Happiness Project spent more than 2 years on the NY Times Bestseller list. We discuss: 1) Why happiness is the key to achieving more in life? 2)The 4 keys to live a happier, more meaningful life.

35: [Self Help] Make it Big- Frank McKinney| 3 Keys to living an Extraordinary life 19.09.2016

1) Why and how you must commit to killing the ordinary approach in your life in order to become extraordinary? 2) What do we need to do in order to build an extraordinary life? 3) How can we build our risk threshold so that we can go after our biggest dreams? 4) Why we must GIVE now - and not wait till we have enough money/success - in order to grow our own life. Download the FREE 4 Disciplines of...

34:[Productivity] Getting Things Done - David Allen| 5 keys to Getting Things Done 14.09.2016

5 keys to Super Productivity: - The paradox of having complete control v/s playing a big game in life. - Why we need to build an external brain and how can we do that. - The paradox that the more something is on your mind, the less it is actually happening - Why There are no problems - only projects. If you haven't labeled the problem as a project, you are a victim of the situation - Why we don't...

33:[Startup] Insight Out - Tina Seelig| 4 step process to go from idea to reality 12.09.2016

The 4 step process that every entrepreneur must go through in order to take ideas from conception to reality. Dr Tina Seelig is the director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. She teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship at Stanford. Dr. Seelig earned a Ph. D. in Neuroscience from St...

32:[Finance] Profit First - Mike Michalowicz| 4 Keys to Making more Profits without working more 07.09.2016

- How to make your business a cash generating machine rather than a cash eating monster? - Parkinson's law - The idea that When a resource is made available, we consume it all. And it is the same with our own money - Why it is much easier to lose weight if we start using a smaller dinner plate and how we need to treat our money the same way? - Why logic does not work when it comes to money and wha...

31:[Entrepreneurship] Scaling Up - Verne Harnish | Why most businesses never get to $1 Million Revenue mark 05.09.2016

Why most businesses never get to the $1 million revenue mark and what to do about it The most important people metric you need to monitor when in early phase of your entrepreneurial journey The most important thing to own in your customer's mind How to pulse faster in order to execute faster   Schedule a call with me here: http://www.2000books.com/discuss Get a free Audiobook with Audible: http://...

30:[Productivity] Essentialism – Greg McKeown| 3 Key mindsets of Essentialism 31.08.2016

1) 3 Key Mindsets of Essentialism 2) The common element between Warren Buffett, Mahatma Gandhi and Southwest Airlines 3) Why we must embrace tradeoffs rather than assume they are a necessary evil 4) Why most successful people do not break through to the next level

29:[Self Help] Carrots & Sticks - Ian Ayres| 3 Keys to use commitments to get things done 29.08.2016

How to Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done: - How commitments can be used to fortify our willpower - How we can use our social network to get the very best out of ourselves - Hyperbolic Discounting - Why our Inner Homer Simpson wins out over our Inner Spock and what to do about it - What are the best kinds of tasks/goals that we should use commitments for?

28:[Relationships]The Art of People - Dave Kerpen| 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want 24.08.2016

In Art of People Interview we discuss: -Mirroring -Validate their feelings - Paradox of persuasion - Paradox of Interested vs Interesting -Create your own advisory board

27:[Self-Help] What I wish I knew when I was 20 - Tina Seelig|The 1 difference between those who succeed wildly and those who live mediocre lives 22.08.2016

Tina Seelig - the director of Stanford Technology Ventures Program teaches us the most important difference between those who succeed in their entrepreneurial ventures and those who don't. Some of the ideas discussed: - Why we need to be Missionaries not mercenaries in our Entrepreneurial ventures - For successful people: Bottom is lined with rubber not concrete - Don't wait for permission from th...

26:[Self Help]Love is the Killer App - Tim Sanders|What Mark Cuban taught Tim about success 17.08.2016

We have 3 intangibles that we can give away freely - And these stockpiles actually grow as we give them away and help us move forward in our business. What are they? Let's explore in this interview with Tim Sanders on "Love is the Killer App"

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