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Achieving Business ExcellenceFor the past five years, I’ve been working hard in preparation for writing another book. As part of my research, I’ve read literally hundreds of books, articles, and research papers on the key strategies of the world’s top companies—many of which, I am honored to say, are [Read more]
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Posted: 14 years ago | ||
Presentation Revolution - Changing the way the world does presentations
I’m dissatisfied. Even more so… I am disturbed, and you should be as well. Today we live in a business culture that abuses the art and science of public speaking everyday. We power up our PCs (Macs, if we’re lucky) and present poorly prepared and hideously designed [Read more]
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Posted: 14 years ago | ||
The Art of the StartI use a top-ten list format for all my speeches, and I would love to begin this book with a top-ten list of the most important things an entrepreneur must accomplish. However, there aren't ten there are only five,
Great Ideas for Starting Things
Make Meaning. The best reason to start [Read more]
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Roadmap to Power Sector Reform in NigeriaThe availability of reliable Electric Power to the homes and businesses of our citizens has been one item in our national life that we have approached with so much hope and yet experienced so much frustration over the past decades. Various regimes, in the distant past, paid little attention to the [Read more]
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Challenges from Nigeria’s Economic RecoveryThis piece documents the facts of the supply-side recovery in Nigeria in the last few years and identifies the triggers. It then discusses the challenges the new turn of events pose to policy makers, who are only just responding to the previous downturn. Data that have become available since [Read more]
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The CEO of the 21st century
What are the qualities and characteristics that help create successful leaders? Consider this four-point plan. With business leaders’ public—and private—behavior coming under increasing scrutiny, it’s becoming nearly impossible to avoid getting caught in a lie. Few things [Read more]
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Posted: 15 years ago | ||
The Bootstrapper’s BibleThere has never been a better time to start a business with no money. And this manifesto will show you how. This manifesto is based on The Bootstrapper’s Bible, a book I wrote a few years ago. What I’ve done is divided it into short sections, so you can find the little kernel of insight [Read more]
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The Long Tail: Forget Squeezing Millions from a few Megabits at the Top of the Charts...In 1988, a British mountain climber named Joe Simpson wrote a book called Touching the Void, a harrowing account of near death in the Peruvian Andes. It got good reviews but, only a modest success it was soon forgotten. Then, a decade later, a strange thing happened. Jon Krakauer wrote Into Thin [Read more]
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111 Ridiculously obvious thoughts on selling
“Everyone lives by selling something.” 1. “Strategy” overrated, simply “doin’ stuff” underrated. See Kelleher and Bossidy: “We have a ‘strategic plan,’ it’s called doing things.”—Herb Kelleher. “Execution is a [Read more]
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Ten Unhealthy habitsAfter years of working with entrepreneurs, investors, corporations, and institutions, I realized that most people have one or more habits that prevent them from being wealthy. For each habit I have created and tested a counter-habit, hoping that this can help individuals live happier. This is a [Read more]
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