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Peter Drucker on the 8 habits of highly effective executives: https://t.co/Th9Z9pGO28
The 3 dead-simple "Work Habits" I track to guarantee progress every single day (without resorting to complex productivity systems or accountability apps): https://t.co/bQWsTKw3NA
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Cass and Cheney had their nervous moments, as Dalrymple, like a mini-Rockefeller, expanded into grain elevators, Great Lakes steam transport, and a host of related enterprises. But within just a few years it was clear that the farm operations were a spectacular success. The “Dalrymple farm” had grown to thirty thousand acres by the early 1880s,
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
A small band of legislators didn’t live at the Driskill, where the bills were routinely picked up by lobbyists, but at small boardinghouses below the Capitol; the members of this band didn’t accept free lodging from the lobbyists, and they didn’t accept the “Three B’s” (“beefsteak, bourbon and blondes”) which the lobbyists provided to other
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson I
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