Download or read book Why Some People Succeed and Others Fail written by Samuel A. Malone, MR and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring and remarkable book discusses the principles of success that have directed and motivated many people to make a significant contribution and difference to the world. The text is underscored by the best scientific research currently available which is made accessible to the reader through clear simple language.

Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by Tom Eisenmann and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Download or read book Why People Fail written by Siimon Reynolds and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Medal Winner, Success and Motivation, 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards An essential guide for mastering failure in order to achieve your goals Success is often just a moment—a goal fulfilled, soon to be replaced with new goals. But failure is the ambitious person's constant companion, often dogging us for months, years or even decades before we finally reach our aim. In the groundbreaking book Why People Fail, Siimon Reynolds, one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, explores the main causes of failure, in any field, and reveals solutions for overcoming them and creating a successful personal and professional life. Why People Fail offers strategies and ideas for defeating the sixteen most common failure habits such as destructive thinking, low productivity, stress, fixed mindset, lack of daily rituals, and more. Outlines the common habits that lead to failure and shows how to overcome them Features dozens of tips and exercises to help increase business and personal success Written by Siimon Reynolds, an internationally recognized expert on high performance and business excellence Many people have changed their lives by mastering just one of the timeless principles in this book. Master five or ten and your life will rocket to a totally new level.

Download or read book Why some succeed while others fail written by Harry A. Lewis and published by Primento Digital sprl. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two ways are open before you in life. One points to degradation and want, the other, to usefulness and wealth. In the old Grecian races one only, by any possible means, could gain the prize, but in the momentous race of human life there is no limiting of the prize to one. No one is debarred from competing; all may succeed, provided the right methods are followed. Life is not a lottery. Its prizes are not distributed by chance. There can hardly be a greater folly, not to say presumption, than that of so many young men and women who, on setting out in life, conclude that it is no use to mark out for themselves a course, and then set themselves with strenuous effort to attain some worthy end; who conclude, therefore, to commit themselves blindly to the current of circumstances. Is it anything surprising that those who aim at nothing, accomplish nothing in life? No better result could reasonably be expected. Twenty clerks in a store; twenty apprentices in a ship-yard; twenty young men in a city or village—all want to get on in the world; most of them expect to succeed. One of the clerks will become a partner, and make a fortune; one of the young men will find his calling and succeed. But what of the other nineteen? They will fail; and miserably fail, some of them. They expect to succeed, but they aim at nothing; content to live for the day only, consequently, little effort is put forth, and they reap a reward accordingly. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Harry A. Lewis entered Harvard College in 1964 and discovered his passion for computer programming during a part-time job in a Harvard psychology laboratory. He graduated summa cum laude in Applied Mathematics in 1968. Lewis served as a commissioned officer of the US Public Health Service during the Vietnam War, worked on image processing and systems programming, and later earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics. He became a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard and authored books on computer science and higher education. Lewis also served as Dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003 Orison Swett Marden (1848–1924) was an American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. His writings discuss common-sense principles and virtues that contribute to a well-rounded, successful life. Many of his ideas are based on New Thought philosophy. His first book, “Pushing to the Front” (1894), became an instant best-seller. Marden went on to publish fifty or more books and booklets, averaging two titles per year

Download or read book Why Some Succeed and Others Fail written by Luther Strong and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More dreams and aspirations have been destroyed because of a lie that we believed about our self and our abilities. The only way to get away from the negative suggestion of poverty in your life is to make a complete "about face." Fear is the greatest inhibitor of all. We have two things that we can give in this world; one is honesty and the other is sincerity! For true honesty and sincerity, we must start with ourselves. Be honest with yourself! Be sincere with yourself! Then and only then can you be honest and sincere with your fellowman. This book was created to help you reach your goals in life through proper thinking. I also want our children to learn early to understand and use their mind power.

Download or read book Hidden Treasures written by Harry A. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collapse written by Jared Diamond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times

Download or read book Hidden Treasures Or Why Some Succeed While Others Fail written by Harry A. Lewis and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timeless classic that examines the lives of well known successful people who started at the bottom and grew to become successful icons. It has some of the greatest stories ever told. It also describes the principles that lead to success as well as failure. The book provides the answer to “why some succeed while others fail”. This enlightening and eye-opening read.

Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by David Feinleib and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the want-to-be entrepreneur thinking about taking the leap, the boot-strapped entrepreneur trying to energize a business three or four years in, and the venture-backed entrepreneur trying to scale, Why Startups Fail shows you the key mistakes new ventures make—and how to avoid them. Nearly everyone has an idea for a product they could build or a company they could start. But eight out of 10 new businesses fail within the first three years. Even only one in ten venture-backed startups succeeds, and venture capitalists turn down some 99% of the business plans they see. The odds appear to be stacked against you! But entrepreneurs often make the same avoidable mistakes over and over. Why Startups Fail can help you beat the odds and avoid the pitfalls and traps that lead to early startup death. It’s easy to point to successes like Apple, Google, and Facebook. But the biggest lessons can come from failure. What decisions were made, and why? What would the founders have done differently? How did one company become a billion-dollar success while another—with a better product and in the same market—fail? Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of the Silicon Valley startup community, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and blogger Dave Feinleib analyzes companies that have come and gone. In short, powerful chapters, he reveals the keys to successful entrepreneurship: Excellent product/market fit, passion, superb execution, the ability to pivot, stellar team, good funding, and wise spending. In Why Startups Fail, you’ll learn from the mistakes Feinleib has seen made over and over and find out how to position your startup for success. Why Startups Fail: Shows venture-backed startups and boot-strappers alike how to succeed where others fail. Is equally valuable for companies still on the drawing board as well as young firms taking their first steps. Takes you through the key decisions and pitfalls that caused startups to fail and what you can learn from their failures. Covers the critical elements of entrepreneurial success.

Download or read book Nine Things Successful People Do Differently written by Heidi Grant Halvorson and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact on performance. Here’s a hint: accomplished people reach their goals because of what they do, not just who they are. Readers have called this “a gem of a book.” Get ready to accomplish your goals at last.

Download or read book Truthful Living written by Napoleon Hill and published by Grand Harbor Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer brings you the very foundation of Napoleon Hill's self-help legacy: his long-lost original notes, letters, and lectures--now compiled, edited, and annotated for the modern reader. Twenty years before the publication of his magnum opus Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill was an instructor, philosopher, and writer at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, where he taught courses in advertising and sales. These rare, never-before-seen lectures were thought to be lost to history. Until now. Given exclusive access to the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Jeffrey Gitomer has unearthed Hill's original course notes containing the fundamental beliefs in hard work and personal development that established Hill as a global leader of success and positive attitude. In Truthful Living, Gitomer has captured Hill's foundational wisdom for the twenty-first century. These easy-to-implement real-world strategies for life, family, business, and the bottom line prove as energizing and inspiring today as they were nearly one hundred years ago.

Download or read book Super Entrepreneurship Decoded 5 Secret Keys to Create Breakthrough Businesses that Change the World written by Fabrice Testa and published by Houndstooth Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All across the planet, entrepreneurs and innovators are actively working to solve humanity's toughest problems. If you are an inventor, trailblazer, or game-changer who dreams of making the world a better place through crazy ideas with extraordinary results, this book is for you. Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded will show you step by step how to make that dream a reality, from tackling an insurmountable problem to creating the kind of breakthrough business that can fix it. Learn about the Age of Exponential Acceleration, in which super-entrepreneurs have become motivated to act boldly in solving the world's biggest problems. Discover the five secrets of the top super-achievers who are changing the way we travel, eat, work, and simply go about our daily lives. By applying the unique method presented in Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded, you will be able to materialize your dreams, build your own future, and achieve anything you want in life.

Download or read book Fail Fast Fail Often written by Ryan Babineaux and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bold, bossy and bracing, Fail Fast, Fail Often is like a 200-page shot of B12, meant to energize the listless job seeker." —New York Times What if your biggest mistake is that you never make mistakes? Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, psychologists, career counselors, and creators of the popular Stanford University course “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” have come to a compelling conclusion: happy and successful people tend to spend less time planning and more time acting. They get out into the world, try new things, and make mistakes, and in doing so, they benefit from unexpected experiences and opportunities. Drawing on the authors’ research in human development and innovation, Fail Fast, Fail Often shows readers how to allow their enthusiasm to guide them, to act boldly, and to leverage their strengths—even if they are terrified of failure.

Download or read book Nuance written by Michael Fullan and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Break the cycle of surface-level change and failure How do leaders become clearer as complexity increases? We live in a world where decisions require judgment, getting people on board, drawing on local knowledge, ingenuity, and commitment. As leaders, how do you get beneath surface-level change to tackle complex challenges with depth and clarity. Nuance is the answer. Michael Fullan returns with an eminently readable, compelling and practical guide on the three habits of nuance: joint determination, adaptability, and culture-based accountability. Learn how you can: · Combine the power of networks and humanity to get to desired destinations. · Embrace complexity and understand context to develop better judgment · Change the culture of your organization to harness the forces of nuance. · Develop quality change that sticks With tons of examples and case studies of this book makes explicit the hidden habits and mind frames of leaders who deliver lasting change.

Download or read book Now You Know written by Ryan Chamberlin and published by Platinum Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now You Know will transform the way you think about sales. Are you a sales achiever? Do you sometimes feel like you haven't quite "figured it out?" Are you performing at the highest levels in your personal and professional life? If not, get ready, because Now You Know is a book that will move you from an average salesperson, to a top 5% influential sales master! You can read and memorize all the pitches, scripts, and closing tips you want, but without applying these 7 laws, you are destined for mediocrity at best. That may be a strong statement, but the top money earners in sales know it to be true. This is not a book about tactics. It's about the 7 laws, that when applied within any sales system will revolutionize your business and help you achieve the results you desire. Over the past decade, Ryan Chamberlin has trained some of the top sales people in the United States by teaching them these 7 principles that only the top pros know. He calls them "the 7 Laws of Sales." If you are not where you want to be in your life or your business, Now You Know is designed to take your sales strategy, and your team, to the highest possible level.

Download or read book Innercise written by John Assaraf and published by Waterside Productions. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you really have so much potential...why are you NOT using all of it? The latest brain science delivers the answers you need to break free and unlock the hidden power of your subconscious mind, so you earn more, live more, and achieve more than ever before. By using the latest technologies and evidence-based training techniques, you can release years of old programming, limiting beliefs and habits that keep you stuck achieving the same results over and over again. Discover powerful brain-based techniques that elite athletes, Navy SEALs, CEOs, and astronauts use to upgrade their mindset, focus, and emotional fortitude!" --

Download or read book The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle written by E. James Rohn and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To have more we must first become more", is the very essence of the philosophy of personal development, success and happiness addressed by Jim Rohn in The Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle.This book presents a realistic and powerful formula for the attainment of success and happiness. The philosophy presented in these pages is a blending of many of Mr Rohn's publicly expressed insights combined with an abundance of new material from his private journals.The final result is a stimulating and inspiring creation that brings hope to those who are uncertain, encouragement to those who are discouraged, and new understanding to those who are bewildered by the complexitiies of modern society. It teaches that the journey is as important as the arrival.