The Busyness Delusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Busyness Delusion write by Chris Gardener. This book was released on 2018-06-17. The Busyness Delusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When your business is a "job in disguise" and feels like a hamster wheel it's time to get smarter. How to have financial security, freedom and fulfilment ... without being so stupidly busy. When people find out you run your own business you know what they'll ask: "How's it going? Are you busy?" Somehow, "busy" has come to mean "successful." But you didn't wake up this morning thinking "my main aim today is to be as busy as possible!" You don't have your business "to be busy" ... so why DO you work so hard? We all have our businesses for the same reason. The same three reasons actually - to have financial security, freedom and fulfilment - the 3Fs. But these aren't the outcomes for most small businesses. Instead, the common experience feels like you're on a hamster wheel, where the hours are long and the rewards mediocre. Self-esteem is threatened and life, love and relationships impacted. This book explains why this happens and how to approach work in a smarter way, to have a better business with less busyness and more certain results, so you can get back to living and loving life again. How, by climbing off the hamster wheel and escaping The Busyness Delusion, you can take the easier, more certain route to turn your own business into one that does give you all 3Fs. It covers: Why the hustle method is seductive but flawed, and how to use a smarter approach Why most self-employed people unwittingly choose the hardest way to earn, and what the easier options are. How to overcome the biggest obstacle to a smarter business and better life. What financial security really means and how to achieve it quicker and more easily. How to get better results by applying a simple model of how the brain works to give you more control. How to eliminate your competition to make it easier to get better results. Providing a new framework, illustrated in clear diagrams and told through a compelling story, this book reveals why copying others creates the hamster wheel effect, and precisely what to do to have a business and life you deserve. "This book nails the problem with most small businesses. The solutions are time-tested principles, for the first time pulled together in an original and enjoyable way that's easy to understand and implement." Dan Sager
The Halo Effect
The Halo Effect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Halo Effect write by Phil Rosenzweig. This book was released on 2008-12-09. The Halo Effect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do some companies prosper while others fail? Despite great amounts of research, many of the studies that claim to pin down the secret of success are based in pseudoscience. THE HALO EFFECT is the outcome of that pseudoscience, a myth that Philip Rosenzweig masterfully debunks in THE HALO EFFECT. THE HALO EFFECT highlights the tendency of experts to point to the high financial performance of a successful company and then spread its golden glow to all of the company's attributes - clear strategy, strong values, and brilliant leadership. But in fact, as Rosenzweig clearly illustrates, the experts are not just wrong, but deluded. Rosenzweig suggests a more accurate way to think about leading a company, a robust and clearheaded approach that can save any business from ultimate failure.
Rest
Rest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rest write by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This book was released on 2016-12-06. Rest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done—but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers, painters, and thinkers—from Darwin to Stephen King—to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. "Deliberate rest," as Pang calls it, is the true key to productivity, and will give us more energy, sharper ideas, and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives, and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.
DELUSION
DELUSION - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook DELUSION write by Terry K. Rodgers. This book was released on 2011-12-20. DELUSION available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Delusion is the story of a farm boy left with no choice but to flee his confusing and dysfunctional family and strike out on his own. All he needed was space, time to think, a chance to clear the dross of his life from his mind. The independence he sought and the free life he craved was so close he could taste it, then the girl came along. Riding a trail bike in Coringup National Park, black gown flowing behind her and, from what he could see, intricate designs painted on her neck and her face. He wasn’t to know it at the time, but that was the moment an ethereal, mystical, persuasive new force took a hold on his life. If he’d had just a little more fire in his belly, a little more steel in his spine, was less of a fantasist and dreamer, the bizarre beauty who appeared out of nowhere may not have taken over his life quite as easily as she did. But from the moment he stumbled across her his unmaking had begun. And he could do nothing to stop it, like she’d gone inside his head and controlled him. Even when she rebirthed him and renamed him as Draigh, the Dragon, her Protector, he missed his chance to put a stop to her theatrics and nonsense. The question is, had he known what a train wreck she was going to make of his life, could he have done anything about it? Guilty, the foreman had droned over and over to each accusation, spoken with a malevolence he could taste. And yet he’d done none of it, not that anyone cared. It was her, Arachne, who created the trail of carnage left strewn in their wake. Why would they want to blame him? Right from the outset he was against taking GranJude’s little yellow car. GranJude was in Summerland and would be back soon and would need it, but Arachne prevailed and that was the key to what happened, the beginning of the end. Once he slid behind the wheel and headed north from Coringup there was no turning back. He was Draigh now, Draigh the Dragon, Arachne’s companion and protector and dupe, riding with an exotic who reckoned she owned him and probably did. She knew every thought he was having, she pushed him to corners he didn’t want to go. Never mind her clear rules of distance and non-engagement, when a bloke’s stricken it’s too easy to be swept up in the flurry and be carried along. Stricken or smitten, he could never be sure. Arachne, the Weaver of Webs, the writer of Scripts. Love-hate, no doubt about it. He wanted her and needed her, he didn’t want her and didn’t need her. But it was like she was him, it was like he was her. Oh, the places she led him. The people whose lives they impacted and meshed with. And yet, whatever she was doing, whatever she was plotting, he knew none of it. Like helping a geriatric bank robber finance his simple daughter’s wedding and his overdue retirement. Like witnessing her own death in a previous time. Helping the beautiful but melancholic Levis Bretherland dispose of his demons and burdens and possessions. Loving Pet Picolla. Bringing new dimensions to the mundane lives of Fatarse and Shortarse The Dwarf.
Slack
Slack - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slack write by Tom DeMarco. This book was released on 2002-04-09. Slack available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If your company’s goal is to become fast, responsive, and agile, more efficiency is not the answer--you need more slack. Why is it that today’s superefficient organizations are ailing? Tom DeMarco, a leading management consultant to both Fortune 500 and up-and-coming companies, reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions, or it could mean designing workloads that allow people room to think, innovate, and reinvent themselves. It means embracing risk, eliminating fear, and knowing when to go slow. Slack allows for change, fosters creativity, promotes quality, and, above all, produces growth. With an approach that works for new- and old-economy companies alike, this revolutionary handbook debunks commonly held assumptions about real-world management, and gives you and your company a brand-new model for achieving and maintaining true effectiveness.
