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This is an excerpt from The Luck Factor , a 10-year scientific study of luck. It leads with some stuff about superstition which deters most people from getting to the good stuff. So here is a summary.
Lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.
1. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities
2. Make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition
3. Create sel Read more
What do Allstate Insurance, Discover Card, Coldwell Banker, Craftsman tools, Kenmore appliances have in common? They are all successful brands created by Sears, while Sears itself went bankrupt. Allstate alone has a market cap of $34 billion. According to Annie Duke , The story of Sears is the story of not knowing when to quit. Or more precisely, ignoring all the signs that you should quit something. While successful Read more
"That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard”, said Bill Campbell in typical fashion, to an employee in a meeting. Back then, he was a tyrannical boss, and it took a near mutiny from his staff for him to see the error of his ways and change. According to this book, he was a classic “diminisher”. He was not yet the legendary mentor to Silicon Valley CEOs like Steve Jobs and the Google founde Read more
Choose Possibility is a new book by Sukhinder Singh Cassidy. It is part personal story, and part career guide for ambitious professionals.
I first learned of Sukhinder in 2012 while watching videos at Stanford’s Entrepreneur corner, where she was interviewed as the founder of Joyus.
https://ecorner.stanford.edu/clips/th...
Sukhinder has had a remarkable career with stints that in Read more
What do you think about the book Buyology? (Truth and Lies about why we buy)
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