Archive for 'Business'
Effectiveness, not efficiency - Chapter #43
Happy 2010 for everyone! Miguel shares his theme for the year and Peter Drucker’s idea of doing the right thing vs doing things right.
00:00 Intro
00:30 2010 Theme: Creating Value
01:02 Effectiveness vs Efficiency
01:32 My Chritsmas toy
01:55 Peter Drucker quotes
02:41 Less is More
04:38 The best way to predict the future
Books mentioned:
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to [...]
Full StoryThe Power of Full Engagement by Loehr & Schwartz (review) - Chapter #41
This is a book that is has turned Miguel’s approach to work upside down.
If you suspect yourself to be a workaholic, or if you are often tired from work, you MUST read this book.
By applying their experience in training olympic athletes for top performance to the knowledge work arena, the authors proclaim Energy, not Time, [...]
Tribes by Seth Godin (review) and FREE books giveaway - Chapter #36
To Win a Free Copy of Seth Godin’s Latest Book:
1 Watch the video above
2 Leave a comment explaining the Tribe you’d really love to gather
and what is really stopping you from leading it (if anything!)
3 I will pick the best TWO comments and declare the winners in 7 days.
Keep reading!
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The Dip made Miguel hungry [...]
The Dip by Seth Godin (review) - Chapter #35
This is a little book that teaches you, quite literally, when to quit and when to stick.
Best-seller author Seth Godin asks the most poignant questions.
Miguel read the first chapter a few years ago. He’s happy he stumbled upon the full book last week:
00:00 Intro
01:10 Why be the best in the World?
03:13 The curves of accomplishment
04:30 [...]
Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (review) - Chapter #34
Gary is a character: in your face, fun, raw and a very loving human being. He is the host of WinelibraryTV and founder of the branding company Vaynermedia.
If you haven’t heard of him, you must have been hiding. He is taking the online world by storm. In Crush It! he explains how he built his [...]
Pick Your Battles Carefully: The Perfect Economy Strategy - Chapter #26
When playing for the longterm, you have to analyse carefully what resources you have available.
Miguel is great at overlooking this fundamental rule of strategy.
Time to go back to the drawing board and adapt.
A Book About Innocent - Our Story and Some Things We’ve Learned (review) - Chapter #23
Untitled from Miguel Mayher on Vimeo.
Some companies create products and services that turn customers into fans. Innocent drinks, the British smoothies and healthy veg pots company, has written a book outlining the secret ingredients on how they do it.
“A work about running a business and getting started, about nature and fruit, about company life and [...]
Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson (book review) - #10
Miguel does the first book review at BookVIM: an autobiography of an entrepreneurship superstar.
What would you like to see in a great book review?
Books mentioned:
Losing my virginity: The Autobiography
Screw it lets do it!
Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a global entrepreneur
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