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  What You Do Is Who You Are - How...

  Ben Horowitz

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  Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times. 
  Ben Horowitz has long been fascinated by history, and particularly by how people behave differently than you’d expect. The time and circumstances in which they were raised often shapes them—yet a few leaders have managed to shape their times. In What You Do Is Who You Are, he turns his attention to a question crucial to every organization: how do you create and sustain the culture you want? 
  To Horowitz, culture is how a company makes decisions. It is the set of assumptions employees use to resolve everyday problems: should I stay at the Red Roof Inn, or the Four Seasons? Should we discuss the color of this product for five minutes or thirty hours? If culture is not purposeful, it will be an accident or a mistake. 
  What You Do Is Who You Are explains how to make your culture purposeful by spotlighting four models of leadership and culture-building—the leader of the only successful slave revolt, Haiti’s Toussaint Louverture; the Samurai, who ruled Japan for seven hundred years and shaped modern Japanese culture; Genghis Khan, who built the world’s largest empire; and Shaka Senghor, a man convicted of murder who ran the most formidable prison gang in the yard and ultimately transformed prison culture. 
  Horowitz connects these leadership examples to modern case-studies, including how Louverture’s cultural techniques were applied (or should have been) by Reed Hastings at Netflix, Travis Kalanick at Uber, and Hillary Clinton, and how Genghis Khan’s vision of cultural inclusiveness has parallels in the work of Don Thompson, the first African-American CEO of McDonalds, and of Maggie Wilderotter, the CEO who led Frontier Communications. Horowitz then offers guidance to help any company understand its own strategy and build a successful culture.  
  What You Do Is Who You Are is a journey through culture, from ancient to modern. Along the way, it answers a question fundamental to any organization: who are we? How do people talk about us when we’re not around? How do we treat our customers? Are we there for people in a pinch? Can we be trusted?  
  Who you are is not the values you list on the wall. It’s not what you say in company-wide meeting. It’s not your marketing campaign. It’s not even what you believe. Who you are is what you do. This book aims to help you do the things you need to become the kind of leader you want to be—and others want to follow.

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  Confident Public Speaking -...

  Rosemarie Barnes

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  A good idea not shared or understood by others is a shame. A brilliant idea not shared and understood is a tragedy. Public speaking is so much more than the courage to stand in front of a group and talk. For a presentation to be powerful, it must have the right amount of content, organized in a memorable way for both speaker and audience, it must be delivered with power, warmth, and charisma, and it must be spoken in the language of the audience. How much content is enough?  How much is too much?  Most public speakers work so hard to give great value to their audiences that they inadvertently make a huge mistake; they include far too much information into far too little time.  Time is never a speaker’s friend.  Going overtime in a presentation is an egregious error and rude to the nth degree.  How well is your presentation organized?  If you must rely on notes, cue cards, or even worse, slides, to keep you on track, the problem is not one of memory; the problem lies in the organization.  Excellent speakers use systems and strategies so that the presentation is simple for them to remember and impossible for their audiences to forget.  Through good organization, speakers are able to build anticipation, excitement, and engagement; so simple, but not easy.Speakers are not generally trained actors, but they do need to know their way around a performance space.  Don’t like that word, “performance?”  Get over it, because each time a speaker stands to deliver a message they are absolutely, un-categorically, giving a performance.  As such, knowledge of stagecraft is as vital as is the message.  Which part of the space is the strongest?  The weakest?  How can a speaker use that information to assist the audience in understanding the message?  What are the best ways to enter and exit? A general understanding of how to use presentation spaces properly is extraordinarily valuable to every great speaker.To move or not to move?  That is the question.  Speakers must fill the space, but (and here’s the important bit) they do not have to do it with their feet to do it.  Movement can be good.  Movement can be effective.  Movement can make the audience seasick, drowsy, and provide an opportunity for them to disengage from the presentation and answer e-mails.  Too much, or idle movement can and does dilute the message.  Period.  The trick, of course, lies in using movement with purpose and one of those purposes is NOT to connect with your audience.  It is sad but true, that moving to one end of the performance space gets the speaker closer to that side of the audience, but the consequence is to disengage from the other side.  Your listeners are there to benefit from your entire presentation, not half of it.  There are other, much better strategies to keep the audience engaged the audience at all times, and scant few of them involve cardiovascular exercise for the speaker.  Hot on the heels of understanding the effects of movement is the monumental importance of body language.  When we feel threatened, nervous or surprised, our reptilian brain immediately takes over and high handedly imposes its control.  Adrenalin floods our systems causing us to fight, flee, or freeze with little care as to the physical message we are sending.  When an audience sees a conflict between the verbal and physical messages they will always, always, believe the physical over the verbal.  If you want the listeners to like you, understand you, and trust you, (and that is the point, isn’t it?) then the messages you send absolutely must be unified.  From the tilt of the head to the direction of the toes, be sure the story being told is the you intend.Now add in the secret ingredient of vocal control, the fine art of linguistic choices, and the careful use of charisma, and we have the recipe for creating excellence in public speaking.  <br /&

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  Conversation Transformation -...

  Ben E. jamin, Amy Yeager, Anita...

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  One of the New York Post's Top 10 Best Career Books of 2012Repair communication breakdowns on the spot and drive positive results in every conversationFailed conversations can take a heavy toll on our professional and personal lives, threatening to damage relationships, erode trust, and make it impossible to resolve conflicts, reach decisions, or achieve mutual understanding.Conversation Transformation gives you practical guidelines for managing the six most common (and aggravating) conversation killers: yes-buts, mind-reads, negative predictions, leading questions, complaining, and verbal attacks. Each skill-building chapter guides you through a three-step process for replacing unconstructive habits with more effective responses:AWARENESS: Learn to recognize an ineffective communication pattern the instant it occurs.ACTION: Use specific new strategies to turn the conversation in a better direction.PRACTICE: Engage in repeated, structured practice to turn those actions into new habits.

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  The Physics of Wall Street - A...

  James Owen Weatherall

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  A look inside the world of “quants” and how science can (and can’t) predict financial markets: “Entertaining and enlightening” (The New York Times).   After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But while many of the mathematicians and software engineers on Wall Street failed when their abstractions turned ugly in practice, a special breed of physicists has a much deeper history of revolutionizing finance. Taking us from fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack–era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes on the Pacific coast, James Owen Weatherall shows how physicists successfully brought their science to bear on some of the thorniest problems in economics, from options pricing to bubbles.   The crisis was partly a failure of mathematical modeling. But even more, it was a failure of some very sophisticated financial institutions to think like physicists. Models—whether in science or finance—have limitations; they break down under certain conditions. And in 2008, sophisticated models fell into the hands of people who didn’t understand their purpose, and didn’t care. It was a catastrophic misuse of science. The solution, however, is not to give up on models; it’s to make them better.   This book reveals the people and ideas on the cusp of a new era in finance, from a geophysicist using a model designed for earthquakes to predict a massive stock market crash to a physicist-run hedge fund earning 2,478.6% over the course of the 1990s. Weatherall shows how an obscure idea from quantum theory might soon be used to create a far more accurate Consumer Price Index. The Physics of Wall Street will change how we think about our economic future.   “Fascinating history . . . Happily, the author has a gift for making complex concepts clear to lay readers.” —Booklist

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  Paisano Vyavhar (S) - Gujarati...

  Dada Bhagwan

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  Among the world richest people, who are the richest people in the world? Those with a spiritual code of ethics (highest ethics and values, and ethical behavior).    In the Audio book "The Science of Money", Gnani Purush (embodiment of Self knowledge) Dada Bhagwan explains the spiritual science behind Money and it's use. He describes that one's ethical values create a spiritual balance sheet, influencing one's financial balance sheet.    Dadashri offers in-depth answers to questions such as:    "How would a spiritual teacher define business ethics?    "In financial dealings, which moral ethics are to be followed?"    "Among the ways to get rich, is it true that the simplest means is by giving away money?"    "Why is it helpful to donate to charity, and what are the reasons to make an anonymous donation?"    "Of the many charities to donate to, what are the best charities to donate to?"    Among the myriad of spiritual Audio books available today, it is rare to find spiritual guidance related to the use of money. For learning the hidden principles that govern one's ultimate balance sheet (what one leaves behind or takes with him when he dies), this Audio book will prove an invaluable resource.

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  Mask

  Eli Wehbe

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  Eli Wehbe lived at the white-hot center of Los Angeles nightlife. More than a decade of hustle, scramble, and hard work put him at the pinnacle of the life he always wanted: celebrity friends, beautiful women, fast cars, popularity—and plenty of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He achieved his dream—and it left him empty. Then, a tragedy threatened to destroy him and everything he worked for.In this raw, honest, and vulnerable memoir, one of America’s nightclub greats—a man who literally had his name in lights in Hollywood—shares his story and reveals the naked truth behind Los Angeles after dark. Riveting from first page to last, Mask describes the backstabbing, insecurities, and hollowness that drive the nightclub business and the people within it.After plunging to the depths of despair, Eli refused to give up, embarking on a profound journey of self-discovery and reinvention. Mask chronicles his ultimate odyssey from teen outcast to Hollywood mogul to extreme athletic achievement—an inspiring American story of creation, failure, and redemption.

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