##"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
1. Do What Needs to Be Done
2. Exploit Opportunities
A broken copier is not an “opportunity” to get a new copier, it’s a problem to be solved. Creating a new part that prevents the copier from breaking down is an opportunity (if you work in the copier-making business) that could be exploited to create a new, more durable copier.
3. Direct Yourself
4. Develop Practices for Effectiveness
5. Manage Your Time
6. Focus on Contribution
7. Organize for Excellence
8. Desire Greatness
9. Concentrate Your Efforts
10. Be Courageous
11. Decide Sparingly
12. Learn to be Effective
##"The Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton Christensen ##"Business Adventures" by John Brooks ##"Benjamin Franklin" by Walter Isaacson 1. Temperance: Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation 2. Silence: Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3. Order: Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time. 4. Resolution: Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 5. Frugality: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing. 6. Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions 7. Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty. 9. Moderation: Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve. 10.Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation. 11.Tranquility: Be not distuibed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. 13. Humility: Imitate Jesus and Socrates. ##"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill ##"Conscious Capitalism" by John Mackey and Raj Sisodia ##"As a Man Thinketh" by James Allen ##"Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World" by René Girard 1. Competitors tend to become obsessed with their rivals at the expense of their substantive goals, and because of that 2. the intensity of competition doesn't tell you anything about underlying value. People will compete fiercely for things that don't matter, and once they're fighting they'll fight harder and harder. ##The Obstacle Is the Way" by Ryan Holiday 1. Introduction, Too quickly blame external things and are stuck in fear, Great ones turn weakness into strength, Use problem as fuel, Ceaseless persistence and ingenuity 2. Three components, how we look at our problems, attitud Energy and creativity to break them down and make opportunities Inner will to handle defeat 3. Control your emotions 4. Practice objectivity 5. Alter your perspective, Finding the opportunity, prepare to act 6. Discipline of action, Get moving, Practice persistence, iterate, Follow the process, What's right is what works, Use obstacles against themselves 7. Can rebuild yourself with exercise,Perseverance 8. Turn fear into prudence, strength into transformation, mistakes into initiation, desire into undertaking, gather strength as we go 3. See things for what they are, Do what we can, Ensure and bear what we must ##"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman ##"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig ##"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius ##"Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell ##"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel ##"Reality Check" by Guy Kawasaki ##"How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" by Mohsin Hamid ##"Switch" by Chip Heath and Dan Heath ##"Out of the Crisis" by W. Edwards Deming ##"Peak" by Chip Conley ##"Influence" by Robert B. Cialdini ##"Lucky or Smart?" by Bo Peabody ##"Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck ##"The Four Steps to the Epiphany" by Steve Blank ##"Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" by Robert Coram