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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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Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone. – Mitch Joel
Feb 6
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This is a perfect audiobook when you search for extra energy to move on with your new business. Gary energized me with his passion. In the book he emphasized the role of social media in the new business paradigm. I know much about online stuff, I know how media works. Still I enjoyed listening to Gary. If the names such as Facebook or Twitter sound new to you the book is the must for you. Read the rest of this entry »
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I used to say the most important is how we relate to any situation we face. Our attitude is very important. “Man’s Search for Meaning” gives me more power to invite others to pursue own life sense and practicing its fulfillment. Viktor Frankl shows that practicing freedom of choice and dignity was possible even in conditions of Auschwitz where Frankl spent many long months of 1940s.
The book gently combines the camp’s stories of the author with his introduction of Logotherapy. Re the latter, the following list of tenets represents Frankl’s basic principles of Logotherapy:
Life has meaning under all circumstances, even the most miserable ones.
Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.
We have inalienable freedom to find meaning.
We can find meaning in life in three different ways, by:
Creating a work or doing a deed;
Experiencing something or encountering someone;
The attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering.
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Right brain and left brain – quite an exciting topic. Many of us might already know functions of left brain: uses logic, detail oriented, facts rule, words and language, present and past, math and science, can comprehend, knowing, acknowledges, order/pattern perception, knows object name, reality based, forms strategies, practical, safe; and right brain: uses feeling, “big picture” oriented, imagination rules, symbols and images, present and future, philosophy & religion, can “get it” (i.e. meaning), believes, appreciates, spatial perception, knows object function, fantasy based, presents possibilities, impetuous, risk taking. In the Pink’s book you can find good ideas how to make both brains working well in the Conceptual Age. Read the rest of this entry »
The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be – Andy Stanley
Nov 10
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“Attention determines direction, and direction determines destination.” – this sentence perfectly summarizes the book of Andy Stanley. The book is simple and true. As written by a pastor it refers to the Christian teaching and the Bible on many pages. The principle of choosing good paths to reach good destinations is an universal truth and the book is applicable to the readers independent from their religion. Read the rest of this entry »
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I bought this book for my daughter. After being so much inspired by The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (written by Sean’s father) I wished my teenager would absorb some of this social magic. Daughter read her paperback version while I listened to the audiobook in the car. We both liked it very much!
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