2000 Books for Ambitious Entrepreneurs - Author Interviews and Book Summaries

1) How to design our days so that we give our very best when we are at work? 2) How can we enjoy guilt free play? 3) How to stop feeling like yet another day just went by without any real sense of progress and fulfillment? 4) Why Hard edges are important in our days 5) Moving from compulsive to conscious behavior

Perfectionism can be our biggest enemy - because it hinders us from TAKING ACTION. If we wait for the perfect moment to take perfect action, we can end up waiting forever and lose out in the game of business and in life. In today's interview I will endeavor to learn why we need to abandon perfectionism and how we can become much more ACTION oriented by embracing Imperfectionism. Get this Audiobook...

Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, getting a promotion, or getting a pink slip. It's essential to be pitch perfect—to get the right message across to the right person at the right time. We cover: 1) The importance of Preparation 2) The pasta sauce principle 3) Importance of Certainty 4) How to deliver the perfect pitch under...

Big Ideas: 1) Why slow is fast and fast is slow? 2) You can't connect with people when you are going fast. 3) Thinking fast and thinking slow 4) Controlling the Rhythms of life 5) Action Items

How do we move from blame, fear and victim mindset to radical responsibility, trust and empowerment? 3 commitments we discuss: 1) Taking Radical Responsibility 2) Learning through curiosity 3) Feeling all the feelings   Jim Dethemer is a Co-Founder of the Conscious Leadership Group (CLG) a leadership consulting and training organization. Throughout his career, Jim has coached leaders from Fortune...

Key Ideas : (1) Plant the right seeds: Don't waste time doing a bunch of different things just to please your customers. Instead, identify the thing you do better than anyone else and focus all of your attention, money, and time on figuring out how to grow your company doing it. (2)Weed out the losers: In a pumpkin patch small, rotten pumpkins stunt the growth of the robust, healthy ones. The same...

How can we sell more by selling less? Jay Baer's Youtility offers a new business approach that cuts through the clut­ter: marketing that is truly, inherently useful. If you sell something, you make a customer today, but if you genuinely help someone, you create a customer for life. Jay Baer provides a groundbreaking plan for using information and helpfulness to transform the relationship between c...

Originals are made - NOT BORN. They don't have better ideas than their peers. They just keep trying and trying. Einstein had 248 other papers that nobody knows about. Edison had 1000 patents BUT only 6 that really matter. Originals try a lot of ideas to get to a few good ones. Quantity and Quality are correlated. Originals persist instead of quitting. That's the biggest difference. Dean Simonton's...

The obstacles that we think prevent us from realizing our deepest wishes can actually lead to their fulfillment. Starry-eyed dreaming isn't all it's cracked up to be, and as it turns out, dreamers are not often doers. While optimism can help us alleviate immediate suffering and persevere in challenging times, merely dreaming about the future actually makes people more frustrated and unhappy over t...

1) What happens when you don't make your goals - You can either act like an inner ally or an inner enemy. Self compassion makes you an inner ally. 2) 3 components of self compassion: Kind towards ourselves Sense of common humanity Mindfulness

In this interview, Jessica Jackley tells us the story of founding of Kiva. Kiva is a p2p lending platform that helps underprivileged entrepreneurs in developing world through micro loans from common people like you and I. Kiva has enabled over 1 Billion $+ of lending on it's platform so far and is constantly growing. In this interview Jessica and I talk about: What is Entrepreneurship in it's true...

3 keys to making meaningful, long lasting connections with people we have just met.

What really makes a successful entrepreneur? What they do, how they act...and how to find your best path to business success. Get the 3 "Ws" right from the start What will you sell, who will buy it–and why will they buy it from you? Unlike other books on entrepreneurship, this book focuses on the crucial operational issues associated with consistent profitability. You'll learn how to identify the...

A mini habit is a very small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day; its "too small to fail" nature makes it weightless, deceptively powerful, and a superior habit-building strategy. You will have no choice but to believe in yourself when you're always moving forward. The barrier to the first step is so low that even depressed or "stuck" people can find early success and begin t...

In a noisy world where it seems everything's been said—and shouted from the rooftops—how can your ideas stand out? Fortunately, you don't have to be a genius or a worldwide superstar to make an impact. Drawing on interviews with more than fifty thought leaders in fields ranging from business to genomics to urban planning, Dorie Clark shows how these masters achieved success and how anyone—with har...

Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review columns (which is one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 MINUTES clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives. Bregman works from the premise that the b...

How do we springboard from adversity to strength? New scientific research suggests that resilience isn't something with which only a fortunate few of us have been born, but rather something we can all take specific action to develop. To build strength out of adversity, we need a catalyst. What we need, according to Dr. Alex Lickerman, is wisdom―wisdom that adversity has the potential to teach us....

To make people truly care about what you have to say, you need more than just a good idea, trust among your audience, or a certain number of followers. You need a potent mix of all of the above - and more. As traditional channels for marketing and selling disappear and more people interact mainly online, the very nature of attention is changing. Use the Impact Equation to figure out what you're do...

Disciplined Entrepreneurship will change the way you think about starting a company. Many believe that entrepreneurship cannot be taught, but great entrepreneurs aren't born with something special – they simply make great products. This book will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehe...

To achieve unimaginable business success and financial wealth—to reach the upper echelons of entrepreneurs, where you'll find Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sara Blakely of Spanx, Mark Pincus of Zynga, Kevin Plank of Under Armour, and many others—you have to change the way you think. In other words, you must develop the Entrepreneur Mind, a way of thinking that comes from learning the vital lessons...

In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a ser...

In a world inundated with sales books on getting to yes, this book recommends just the opposite, focusing on how increasing your failure rate can greatly accelerate your movement toward ultimate success. In this interview, we discuss 3 key ideas: (1) You have to be willing to fail more in order to succeed more (2) Intentionally increase your failure rate (3)The Worst NO that we will ever get

"Never started a company before? Struggling with little or no cash? Have no experience, no baseline to judge your progress against? Thank God! You've got a shot at making this work." So says Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, a business book that is so uniquely useful, so raw and entertaining, it reads like the brainchild of Steve Jobs and Chris Rock. The founder of three m...

In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company―the Exponential Organization―that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks te...

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct ou...