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Here’s the July 1, 2011 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers – with the Financial Meltdown back in the Top Spot

Here’s the July 1, 2011 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers – with the financial meltdown back in the top spot. Each month, I post this list.  The new #1 is another look at the players and the disastrous mistakes that led to the massive financial meltdown. At the First Friday Book Synopsis, our… Read More Here’s the July 1, 2011 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers – with the Financial Meltdown back in the Top Spot

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2 Ways To Guarantee Mediocrity (Or Even Outright Failure) – Poor Work Ethic; No Team Meetings

I have spent 13 years reading business books and presenting synopses of these books to folks ready and willing to learn.  It took a while (I’m not all that sharp!), but I think I am beginning to learn some things myself.  In fact, I think I am ready to state, for certain, that there are… Read More 2 Ways To Guarantee Mediocrity (Or Even Outright Failure) – Poor Work Ethic; No Team Meetings

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Here’s The New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers, published February 4, 2011

Here’s the New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers, published: February 4, 2011.  Two books that we presented quite a while back at the First Friday Book Synopsis (Outliers, presented two years ago, January, 2009 & The 4-Hour Workweek, presented nearly three years ago, March 2008) are still #s 2 & 3 (actually, tied for… Read More Here’s The New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers, published February 4, 2011

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Are We Truly A “Flabby Lot?” – In A 10,000 Hour Rule World, Why Are We So Flabby?

Discipline is hard – harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures.  We can’t even keep from snacking between meals.  We are not built for discipline.  We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail.  Discipline is something we have to… Read More Are We Truly A “Flabby Lot?” – In A 10,000 Hour Rule World, Why Are We So Flabby?

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Hardcover Business Best Sellers, the latest list from the New York Times (Oct., 2010)

Here’s the latest list of Hardcover Business Best Sellers.  The New York Times publishes this on the first weekend each month. We have presented many of these at the First Friday Book Synospis, and blogged about some of the others.  (Bob Morris has especially taken us into the Robert Sutton book, Good Boss, Bad Boss).… Read More Hardcover Business Best Sellers, the latest list from the New York Times (Oct., 2010)

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From Roger Staubach to Title IX Babies – Athletic Endeavor Really Can Lead to Business Success

Legendary is not a strong enough word.  Here in Dallas, whatever punch the word “legendary” carries, it is not enough to describe the name Roger Staubach.  The winner of two Super Bowls for the Dallas Cowboys, Roger Staubach is simply the man.  And his success on the field carried over into a vast Real Estate… Read More From Roger Staubach to Title IX Babies – Athletic Endeavor Really Can Lead to Business Success

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It Takes 10,000 Hours, But It Really Has To Be The Right 10,000 Hours – A Lesson From The Big Short

The legendary screenwriter William Goldman was said to have shouted “Nobody knows anything!” in relation to the prediction of movie sales… Quoted in The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb —— I recently presented my synopsis of The Big Short by Michael Lewis to an audience of sharp folks for the downtown edition of the Urban… Read More It Takes 10,000 Hours, But It Really Has To Be The Right 10,000 Hours – A Lesson From The Big Short

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Read What You Want to Read – Just be Sure to Keep Reading

Here is the problem.  As Malcolm Galdwell out it in Outliers, When it comes to reading skills, poor kids learn nothing when school is not in session. The only problem with school, for the kids who aren’t achieving, is that there isn’t enough of it… For its poorest students, America doesn’t have a school problem. … Read More Read What You Want to Read – Just be Sure to Keep Reading

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