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The 4-Hour Workweek

Here’s my mantra:

Balance is more respectable than focus. Anyone can put their mind to something and achieve it using a combination of ability and hard work; but true achievement is to get there without allowing family, friends, body, and soul to notice.

This is out-of-whack with the whole self-help genre that pushes the idea of focusing on goals (written in pen and reviewed regularly, of course) and envisioning success. I don’t set goals, I don’t have a lot of focus, and I don’t do a lot of envisioning; which has probably resigned me to a life of rampant mediocrity that I construe as balance in my own, warped mind. So be it.

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Little Black Book of Connections

You may recall that I read the Little Red Book of Selling last year. I liked it a lot. This black book about connecting and networking is just as good. Gitomer is my main man. He’s my Stephen Covey. He’s my Dale Carnegie. He’s my Lou Holtz.

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The Little Red Book of Selling

I’ve been compiling a list of business books that are keepers and I thought this one might have potential. I heard about it at www.personalmba.com, which is worth checking out. It was on the site’s reading list of 40 books that are supposed to mirror the course work in your average MBA curriculum. On the site they have message boards and discussions for each of the books and a host of other topics.