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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

How do you choose the doctors, lawyers, plumbers, and car mechanics that you need in your life? You seldom select them on the basis of their technical knowledge or their academic qualifications. Here is the shocking truth: You actually choose them on the basis of their business skills. How they build their practices, how they market themselves, how

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

I remember a McKinsey women’s event where fifteen or twenty young consultants from the San Francisco office sat around a glossy oval table listening to a junior partner speak about her successful ascent. The topic turned to work-life balance, as it always did at such events, and she advised us as follows: If there is a household task where it matte... See more

One of the first questions that new acquaintances ask one another is “What do you do?” or “What field are you in?” You need to be able to answer that question with no more than about 20 seconds of description. What is more, you need to answer that question in a way that sounds absolutely fascinating and that almost compels your interlocutor to ask

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

"Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"

Bill Gurley jamesclear.com

Thinking about our career, we might think in abstractions like “a job.” But really a career is made up of a bunch of different things like a salary, an identity, relationships, status, a sense of meaning, and so on. It is often easier to find a fit if you unbundle these things, and think about the parts that matter to you individually. Do you actua... See more

Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process

The Catholic legal scholar Cathleen Kaveny has argued that the reason so many of them are so unhappy—despite being generally very well paid—is the convention of the “billable hour,” which obliges them to treat their time, and thus really themselves, as a commodity to be sold off in sixty-minute chunks to clients. An hour not sold is automatically a... See more

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

I remember talking to an owner of a series of car dealerships in Spain in 2011-2012. The business had seen some massive boom years prior to the Great Recession, but following that, sales had collapsed. So now he had hundreds of employees on the payroll milling around doing very little at all. He could see the demise of the business ahead, but he ju

income soared. “I work very hard from nine to noon,” she said. “Then I have lunch on my deck, look at the birds, and from one to two, I watch a soap opera while I read my mail. Then maybe I’ll work two more hours. I discovered, if I’m efficient and focused, I don’t really need to put in all those hours.” I was genuinely surprised at how many women,

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Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money

"Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Succeed and Thrive in a Career You Love"

Henrik Karlsson • Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Barbara Stanny • Secrets of Six-Figure Women