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Austin Kleon • Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)
Design is hope made visible.
You can live your life as the result of history and what came before, or you can live your life as the cause of what’s to come. You choose.
When talent doesn’t hustle, hustle beats talent. But when talent hustles, watch out.
When you work only for money, without any love for what you do in and of itself, your work will lac... See more
wearecollins.com • 101 Design Rules
Make a daily “focus area.” About ten months after launching our online productivity application, Action Method Online, a user suggested to me that our team create a special “focus area” within the application to which you could drag up to five Action Steps—from any project—that you wanted to focus on today. This arrangement suggested that, regardle
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The Missing Link: Reflections on Philosophy and Spirit by Sydney Banks (Lone Pine Publishing, 1998) Instant Motivation: The Surprising Truth Behind What Really Drives Top Performance by Chantal Burns (Pearson, 2014) The Path of No Resistance: Why Overcoming Is Simpler Than You Think by Garret Kramer (Greenleaf Book Group, 2015) Stillpower: Excellen
... See moreJamie Smart • Results: Think Less. Achieve More
model all of the great masters of history and strip away all the layers of complexity from your days. Simplify. Streamline everything. Become a purist. Less really is more. Concentrate on just a few work projects so you make them amazing versus diluting your attention on too many.
Robin Sharma • The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
User is Always Right, The: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web
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10 Learnings from Peter Drucker’s “The Effective Executive” (as laid out by Jim Collins in the foreword):
1) Know thyself (ratio of "avg performer on your team : Your performance" stays constant)
2) Do what you're made for (what can you do uncommonly well, plan your career on that, eradicate weakness but only within the domain of your strength, don’t
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