Note: because Making Things Happen book is both heavy and complex, I am publishing the summary in two parts. Here is the second part, the first part is here. Summary and Book Review of “Making Things Happen”, second part: Chapter 9 : Communication and relationships For a long time during our civilization, the slowness of […]
Summary of “Making Things Happen” : Project management is a complicated art which requires you to master a number of things such as planning, understanding what needs to be done, writing a good overall vision statement, understanding where ideas come from, understanding what to do with ideas, writing good specifications, understanding how to make good […]
Summary of “The Creative Habit” : Creativity is learned, nourished and maintained; for inspiration to flow through us and spring forth from the mind, you must prepare, have rituals that invoke it, to know our creative DNA – what we are made for, use our memory and connect disparate things with each other, organize work […]
Summary of “45 Effective Ways for Hiring Smart” : Making a hiring error can be very expensive – around two and a half times the salary of the person hired if you catch the error six months later – and the success of a company depends on the quality of people in it; this book […]
Summary of “The Art of Happiness”: Happiness is the purpose of all existence, so why not let ourselves be inspired by the reflections and practical advice of an unconditionally happy man, the Dalai Lama. By His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, 1998, and 2009 (revised version) 296 pages Note: This guest chronicle was […]
Whether it’s for Christmas, birthday, a special event or just for pleasure, a book is an original and exciting gift with the potential to completely change the life of the person you give it to. Few things can boast such possibility and at such modest cost. But it is difficult to find that rare pearl […]
Summary of “The Unwritten Laws of Business” : To succeed in your career, you must understand and apply many unwritten rules with respect to the work, the chain of command, colleagues, project management, the organizational structure, what managers expect from their subordinates, character, personality, and personal development; sometimes these laws seem obvious but even so, […]
Note: Because Made to Stick is a very comprehensive book, I’m publishing my book summary in two parts to give you all the salient points. This is Part Two. Part One is here. Book chronicle and summary of Made to Stick, Part II Chapter 5: Made to Stick Principle 5 – Emotion “If I look […]
Summary of “Made to Stick”: Some ideas influence their audience, making a mark on their memory for a long time and even making them act; whilst others are forgotten having hardly been heard. The authors of Made To Stick study the ideas that stick and explain their methods of adhesion. By Chip Heath and Dan […]
Summary of The Effective Executive: An executive – one who makes decisions that affect your business – must be effective, that is, he must do what it takes; this book teaches us to do that, by teaching us to learn how to watch our time and to organize it, to ask ourselves about what we […]