- The 25 Most Important Business & Career Skills All Smart People Should Know
1. Business Management: Basically, the art of getting people to do things
2. Marketing: Because the purpose of a business is to find a customer, thus, marketing
3. Selling: Knowing how to sell things to peopl…
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- How social media is destroying useful criticism: Everyone is being nice and dishonest
In this age of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and where everyone is trying to build her/his Tribe (or 1000 fans) , everybody is playing nice - everybody is playing to please one's echo chamber - no one likes the…
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- How to identify bad books: Or, How to identify and stay away from books with smart titles and fancy generalizations
This decade has seen a big spurt in non-fiction books with smart titles becoming popular - aka the 'Gladwell books' - books with smart titles (World is flat, Four hour workweek, What would Google do?), books containing …
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- C.S. Lewis's writing advice: useful but hypocritical
So C.S. Lewis wrote a letter about writing advice, sounding like George Orwell, and in the process, unravelling the ugly truth about fantasy writing: it is so, so bad.
Lewis's tips:
1. Always try to use the language …
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- The Success Manual has been updated!
The updated version of The Success Manual has more content and is easier to use. The book has 600+ pages of compiled wisdom on 125 important traits, skills and activities, helping you grasp instantly great ideas from …
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- Introducing Rules for Writers: Collection of useful writing advice from great writers and books
Rules for Writers is a nifty collections of 200+ Big Ideas about writing from Great Writers and some useful books about writing. The advice is arranged across fiction writing, non-fiction writing, business writing, an…
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- Introducing Rules for startups: Collection of useful tips from 50+ great books on entrepreneurship
Rules for Startups is a never-before compilation of big ideas about startups from 50+ Best Books on Entrepreneurship.
Useful tips from the 50+ useful books for all you entrepreneurs out there have been arranged acro…
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- Introducing The Gist: Condensed knowledge from 200+ greatest business and self-improvement books
The Gist contains 1000+ Big Ideas From 200+ Greatest Business & Self-Improvement Books of all time.
The Gist will help you learn instantly from the gist of 200+ all time great business and self-improvement books - c…
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- How cookbook ghostwriters work
Ghostwriting is common among business leaders, sports figures and celebrities... and cooks. One such ghostwriter, with years of experience writes about the craft in the New York Times. The parts that I liked:
One …
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- 15 books everyone must read and keep at all times to survive an apocalypse
Apocalypse reading is big nowadays. It is a staple of modern existence. We always think the worst is around the corner. And personally, I think so too. So, it is best to stay prepared. Lists of essential survival items c…
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- How Mills and Boon style romance novel help women: By being field guides to real-life difficulties
The least 'stuck-up' books in the world, Mills and Boon style romance novels are field-guide to real-life difficulties of women - family, love, marriage, place in society, dreams for the future. In this wonderful post at…
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- Don't take any lessons from Rap musicians
Rap music, the ironic business of selling a lifestyle of money, status, women and cocaine to impressionable, which has made successful businessmen out of people like Jay-Z, P. DIddy and others, has often been used as an …
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- Whatever the odds, the (real) incredible story behind DLF: How it fudged its books to the top in an unregulated Indian real estate market
That India needs a real estate regulator, along the lines of TRAI, is stressed once again by the case of real estate leader DLF, which has been found to fudging its books to boost its stock price and various other malpra…
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- Oprah's Book Club did not help Publishing: Only stole sales from important literature away to fluff literature
The much vaunted Oprah's book club, long thought to be a boon to book publishing was not that good to publishing at all, according to a study. All Oprah's Book Club did was take sales away from books that ought to be rea…
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- What we read, is our biography
Leon Wieseltier writes in The New republic that “Many books are read but some books are lived, so that words and ideas lose their ethereality and become experiences”.
“One’s books are one’s biography”
Next: Read …
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- The 3 Main Lessons from Jamie's Food Revolution
Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals is sort of companion book for the American TV of the same name by famous British TV chef Jamie Oliver.
[From the 100 Ways To Be Being…
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- The 100 greatest books of all time everyone must read
Note: This list is from The Success Manual, the popular compilation of advice on 25 essential business skills and career skills. I arranged this list of 100 most influential and useful books of all time differently. Rat…
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- The Success Manual: Summaries of 100+ Greatest Business and Self Help Books
This handy book list is from The Success Manual, The Encyclopedia of Advice. A list of all the articles in the series on one page can be accessed here. You will also want to read 100 ways to be remarkable, articles from …
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- What was the first self-help book?
Self-help books are all the rage in these 60 years or so. But, self-help books aren't a new phenomenom. Let's see. Balthasar Gracian wrote The Art of Wordly Wisdom in the 17th century. Before that there was Meditation…
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- Arundhati Roy: Proud to be a one-hit wonder
Prof. Tyler Cowen, a good economics blogger, calls Arundhati Roy a "one hit wonder" and then proceeds to say that Arundhati's views on social development haven't much economic standing. If it were some other blogger, one…
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