Archive for category Audiobook

Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls-Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins – Leonard Sax

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Surprising conclusion at the end of the book: teenage girls need first of all some spiritual development.

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The Greengage Summer – Rumer Godden

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Story about children in foreign country without adults’ supervision.

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Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship – Mahan Khalsa & Randy Illig

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Emphatic communication is the best selling tool.

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Your Child’s Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them – Jenifer Fox

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It is time to build on children’s strengths, instead of constantly eliminating weaknesses.

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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men – Leonard Sax

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Video games keep boys in the virtual world; less practical and more abstract school teaching made learning unattractive; ADHD drugs changes the brains ares responsible for motivation; environmental estrogens from PET bottles might modify various functions of the boys’ organisms; male role model radically changed.

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? – Seth Godin

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Build your job on your unique superpower.

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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More – Chris Anderson

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In the new market paradigm everyone can find his own niche.

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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation – Daniel J. Siegel

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Step back and analyze your thought processes.

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath & Dan Heath

eServus Comments:
To me the book was a set of well summarized basics about impactful presentations. Let me summarize the key ideas of the book:
You want people to pay attention, then say something unexpected; to understand and remember – be concrete; to believe and agree – be credible; to care – be emotional; to act – tell stories. What sticks? SUCCES: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories.

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Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone. – Mitch Joel

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Joel starts by saying “I google you… just like you google me.” This exactly how I gather information when planning meetings, going for negotiation or after hearing a name in the news. Actually the book is about business, a very new way of doing business based on the social capital. It is about the trust economy, you being media, migration from mass media to mass content, about participation, entrepreneurship and digital nomads. It is a perfect guidebook for travellers into internet business.

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