Have you read a whole book and then realized you didn’t understand anything? A lot of people have gone through this too! And most of the time, we blame the author, do not we? But the reality is that often, we do not know how to read correctly! Creating this microbook was a great experience …
Daniel Pink is one of our favorite authors here at 12min. His provocative looks on the most diverse subjects bring great perspectives, and in Drive, he shows his vision of how people are motivated. Contrary to most who believe that the best way to motivate someone is to use financial rewards, Pink brings a new …
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Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, coined the term Long Tail in an article that became a reference for anyone who wanted to understand the new consumer relationships in pervasive digital media times. Using the universe of films, books, and music, he has proven that the Internet has created a new marketplace, where total revenue …
Working deeply is one of the most valuable skills in the contemporary world and “Deep Work” is a manifesto on this working style. Deep work is a skill that is becoming increasingly rare with technological advances, mobile computing, and our increasing reliance on social networks. Working deeply means developing the ability to focus on tasks …
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Business Adventures tells stories about important moments in different companies and how those moments defined their future. This microbook is a wonderful collection of American business adventures that will teach you with the mistakes and the correctness of others. You will learn about how greed can lead people and businesses to commit fraudulent attitudes in …
Debt super-cycle – when debt growth results in huge debts and credit crises – is affecting several countries in the world. And this includes the developed and powerful like the United States! These nations need to face complicated decisions: seek a debt restructuring or reduce it through austerity measures. In the book, the author introduces …
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What does Martin Luther King have in common with the kidney thieves you’ve heard about on the internet? The answer is simple, they know how to create lasting messages from ideas that stick. To understand how these ideas really stick together, the Heath brothers wrote “Ideas that Stick” and in this summary, we will share …
Be honest: Do you sleep on average how many hours a day? Probably less than seven – which is understandable since we are very busy in our daily routines. Among all the daily tasks like work, meeting with friends, going to the gym and browsing your social networks, we just did not find much time …
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This is the story of how two friends, Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, started a social network at Harvard University that today is worth billions of dollars and that you probably use every day. In 2003, after almost being expelled from Harvard, Zuckerberg, inspired, created Facebook, and revolutionized the way people communicate on the internet. …
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Some find it very difficult to see the importance of mathematics and how it influences our world and the things around us. Daniel Tammet, a mathematician, and author presents us with a new insight into numbers throughout the book. Understand how mathematics is unlimited and how it is part of your life and your day …
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