Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

Chip Conley: Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success

Using brilliantly simple math that illuminates universal emotional truths, Emotional Equations crystallizes some of life's toughest challenges into manageable facets that readers can see clearly - and bits they can control. Popular motivational speaker and bestselling author Chip Conley has created an exciting, new, immediately accessible visual lexicon for mastering the age of uncertainty. Making mathematics out of emotions may seem a counterintuitive idea, but it's an inspiring and incredibly effective one in Chip Conley's hands. When Conley, dynamic author of the bestselling Peak, suffered a series of tragedies, he began using what he came to call "Emotional Equations" (like Joy = Love - Fear) to help him focus on the variables in life that he could deal with, rather than ruminating on the unchangeable constants he couldn't, like the bad economy, death, and taxes. Now this award-winning entrepreneur shares his amazing new self-help paradigm with the rest of us. Emotional Equations offers an immediately understandable means of identifying the elements in our lives that we can change, those we can't, and how they interact to create the emotions that define us and can help or hurt our progress through life. mehr

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Understand Your Relationship with Money and Achieve Prosperity

Charles Richards: The Psychology of Wealth

Improve your "relationship" with money, build financial self-esteem, and make better choices to achieve your wealth goals In this fascinating exploration of the delicate relationship between money and the human mind, clinical psychologist Charles Richards explains that discovering our sense of self is the key to determining our relationship with money. He contends that credit or debt can be useful tools for building personal growth-if applied properly. Richards pays close attention to credit options, illustrating which ones are reactionary and, thus, harmful, and which ones are safe, reasonable, and healthy-and how these can be used to create wealth-enhancing and personal-growth opportunities.mehr

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What Went Wrong with America? And How it Can Come Back.

Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum: That Used to Be Us

America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What's Wrong with America?, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America's power and prowess.

They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America's history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values have made it impossible to carry out the policies the country needs. What's Wrong with America? is both a searching exploration of the American condition today and a rousing manifesto for American renewal. mehr

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The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen

David Novak: Taking People with You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen

You'll never accomplish anything big if you try to do it alone. We all need people to help us along the way. If you want to start a business, launch a product, move your company in a new direction, or raise money for a good cause, you need help from your team. Very few people get as much help from their team as David Novak. As the CEO of the world's largest restaurant company, with a staggering 1.4 million employees, he has spent the last ten years developing a program for creating effective leaders at every level. In Taking People With You, he shows exactly how to keep your teams motivated and on track: never stop learning, always celebrate achievement and never tolerate poor performance.mehr

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How Your Memory Is Costing You Money - and Why This Time Isn't Different

Ken Fisher, Lara Hoffmans: Markets Never Forget (But People Do)

Sir John Templeton, legendary investor, was famous for saying, "The four most dangerous words in investing are, 'This time it's different.'" He knew that though history doesn't repeat, not exactly, history is an excellent guide for investors.

In Markets Never Forget But People Do: How Your Memory Is Costing You Money and Why This Time Isn't Different, long-time Forbes columnist, CEO of Fisher Investments, and 4-time New York Times bestselling author Ken Fisher shows how and why investors' memories fail them - and how costly that can be. More important, he shows steps investors can take to begin reducing errors they repeatedly make. The past is never indicative of the future, but history can be one powerful guide in shaping forward looking expectations. Readers can learn how to see the world more clearly - and learn to make fewer errors - by understanding just a bit of investing past. mehr

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As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Michael Lewis: Boomerang

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.

Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.

Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations. mehr

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Thinking about Thinking

Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow

In Thinking about Thinking, the world's most influential psychologist Daniel Kahneman reveals the truth about our intuitions, our rationality and our experience of happiness itself, to teach us how to better our lives. Kahneman explores the fascinating flaws and marvels of human behaviour and reveals to us the common errors in people's beliefs. Overturning the conventional way most of us consider decision-making to be rational, reliable and in our own interests, Kahneman takes us on a ground-breaking tour inside the mind to show us how we are all motivated by impulses that often turn out to be irrational, unreliable and detrimental to our well-being.Why do smart people make bad decisions? How come the best laid plans can go so wrong? What really makes us happy?

This is the ultimate psychology book. No one can teach us better than Daniel Kahneman how to take better decisions and lead happier lives.mehr

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Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck - Despite Them All.

Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen: Great by Choice

Ten years after the worldwide bestseller "Good to Great", Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting. mehr



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Your company is only as strong as your leaders.

Dave Ramsey: Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

These are the men and women doing battle daily beneath the banner that is your brand. Are they courageous or indecisive? Are they serving a motivated team or managing employees? Are they valued?

Your team will never grow beyond you, so here's another question to consider. Are you growing? Whether you're sitting at the CEO's desk, the middle manager's cubicle, or a card table in your living-room-based startup, "EntreLeadership" provides the practical, step-by-step guidance to grow your business where you want it to go. Dave opens up his championship playbook for business to show you how to:

- Inspire your team to take ownership and love what they do
- Unify your team and get rid of all gossip
- Handle money to set your business up for success
- Reach every goal you set
- And much, much more!

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