Whether you’re the reader who courts a new book each week or the one still slogging through that bestseller your girlfriend/boyfriend recommended months ago, psychologists and their therapist, analyst, psychiatrist say your time is being well spent.
So here is a prescription of hard drugs my doctor recommended to keep me grinding through 2019,she cautioned of addiction,here is a peek:
-Taking People With You
Have you ever noticed that when you are around someone who loves to learn you feel inspired by his or her passion and curiosity? This person can energize a team and bring new ideas. Look around you – is it true that the best in your industry are always learning, always raising their game, always in a high performance mindset where they are open to learning how to get better and reach the top?
While Novak admits there are many people out there smarter than him, he attributes much of his success to prioritizing knowledge and ideas over ownership and ego. As an added tip he suggests that just by telling people you would like to learn from them, you can open doors.
He created a culture of commitment to always be learning at YUM!. As a leader, he suggests you need to seek out opportunities for both yourself and your team to expand your knowledge about your business
“I also believe deep down in my bones that all people, when given a choice, have an inherent desire to do the right thing, to contribute, and to make a positive difference through the work that they do.”
– Taking People With You
The book I read is called Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, written by Duncan Clark. This book is about the story of Jack Ma and Alibaba. The author first met Jack in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba. He was an early adviser to Alibaba. After two decades, he interviewed Jack Ma and chronicled the rise of Alibaba. This book has twelve chapters, there is a saying stated by not only Jack Ma but also other famous entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates on each new chapter page. The most memorable quote that I have read is “Nobody knows the future. You can only create the future” —- Jack Ma. However, most of the sayings are quite deep to understand. Apart from the sayings, I think the book is easy to read overall, because the author tended to use simple words. Perhaps this might make the book a little bit dull in term of writing style. The book consists of many conversations with Jack Ma. There is no any author’s comment or self-reflection in the book which makes sense in a biography
The House that Jack Ma Built Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life and- death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Blind since she was 6, Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast. In German, Werner, an orphan boy, wins a place at an elite and brutal military academy and, ultimately, becomes a highly specialized tracker of the Resistance. Werner travels through the heart of Hitler Youth to the far-flung outskirts of Russia, and finally into Saint-Malo, where his path converges with Marie-Laure.
This book, so aptly titled, gives hope to the world. Zoleka takes the reader through her journey, she tells her story in simple, relatable tones. At any given point in her book someone finds a glimmer of hope. The fact that she is an iconic grandchild bears no addition to her authenticity. She quantifies the human narrative of life, love and everything else. She speaks the language of men, women, children, families and communities at large
-What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In “Who Will Greet You at Home,” a National Magazine Award finalist for The New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In “Wild,” a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground. In “The Future Looks Good,” three generations of women are haunted by the ghosts of war, while in “Light,” a father struggles to protect and empower the daughter he loves. And in the title story, in a world ravaged by flood and riven by class, experts have discovered how to “fix the equation of a person” – with rippling, unforeseen repercussions. Evocative, playful, subversive, and incredibly human, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky heralds the arrival of a prodigious talent with a remarkable career ahead of her
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky I was Raped …And You Were Born My son if you find this letter, I want you to know that I have been hiding something from you, the man you believe to be your father is not”- Scelo Mncube
—I was Raped …and you were born ,
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.
Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.
An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.
What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives.
If I were to ask you if you wanted to grow and be your best self you would undoubtedly say “Of course”. Novak suggests the best way for you to do that is to always be learning. He believes that being an avid learner is the single biggest thing that separates a good leader from a great one.
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