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Deep Survival: Summary

One sentence summary: In extraordinary circumstances, like accidents or catastrophes, some people survive and others die, such that sometimes things lead you to believe that the first ones die and the second ones survive; this book explains, using numerous stories of accidents and catastrophes, and by exploring the latest scientific theories – from neuroscience to [...]

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The Wisdom of the crowds

Introduction In 1841, the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay published an essay entitled “Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds”. It is in fact a popular belief that people usually get dumb when they gather into crowds. James Surowiecki’s book discusses several situations where this is absolutely wrong, and collective perception, behaviour, or problem-solving can in [...]

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6 Thinking Hats: Looking at a Decision from All Points of View

‘Six Thinking Hats’ is a powerful technique that helps you look at important decisions from a number of different perspectives. It helps you make better decisions by forcing you to move outside your habitual ways o thinking. As such, it helps you understand the full complexity of the decision, and spot issues and opportunities [...]

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Mind Mapping

Mind Maps Mind Mapping is an important technique that improves the way you take notes, and supports and enhances your creative problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject and the way that pieces of information fit together, as well as recording the raw facts contained in [...]

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Inspirational Quotes from Great Leaders

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world. Uri Geller – Best – Love – Work A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. Jeff Bezos – Branding – Companies

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Leading Change: a practical case

The case: Jack Emmons, CEO of Voici Brands, is visiting a Chinese factory that produces clothes for Marquise, one of Voici’s competitors. [...]

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The Power of Blink

  Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking is a 2005 book by Malcolm Gladwell in which he explores the power of the trained mind to make split second decisions, the ability to think without thinking, or in other words using instinct.What is « tipping point »: the moment when an idea, product or concept suddenly catches fire [...]

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