Book Summary – Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant Book SummariesBusiness ManagementEntrepreneurship and Start-UpsSales and Marketing

Book Summary – Blue Ocean Strategy: How to create uncontested market space and make the competition irrelevant

Instead of fighting head-on with your competitors, how do you create uncontested market space and make the competition totally irrelevant?  Based on a study of 150…

ReadingraphicsMay 31, 2016

Book Summary – Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance Book SummariesBusiness CommunicationMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentProfessional Development

Book Summary – Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

Numerous studies have shown that effective organizations and great achievers focus on leveraging their strengths rather than trying to fix their weaknesses. This book by…

ReadingraphicsMay 27, 2016

Book Summary – Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose Book SummariesBusiness ManagementHappiness, Emotional Intelligence & Spiritual GrowthLeadership and TeamworkMotivation and PotentialPersonal Development

Book Summary – Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose

In Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose, Tony Hsieh shares how he built Zappos from nothing to its eventual sale (or marriage)…

ReadingraphicsMay 17, 2016

Book Summary – Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing And Succeeding Under Any Conditions Book SummariesDecision-Making & Problem-SolvingLeadership and TeamworkPersonal Development

Book Summary – Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing And Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Through a simple fable about a penguin colony, with life-like characters that we can identify with. This book by John Kotter presents important lessons for…

ReadingraphicsApril 27, 2016

Book Summary – The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book SummariesHappiness, Emotional Intelligence & Spiritual GrowthPersonal Development

Book Summary – The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

This book by Eckhart Tolle  is a spiritual self-help guide to help us discover our true Being, release our pain and find deep inner peace.…

ReadingraphicsApril 12, 2016

Book Summary – Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard Book SummariesBusiness CommunicationBusiness ManagementLeadership and TeamworkMotivation and PotentialPersonal Development

Book Summary – Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard

Making lasting change in our companies, communities and our own can be hard, because of inherent conflict in our minds. In this book, the Heath…

ReadingraphicsFebruary 5, 2016

Scaling up your business – how to systematize without stifling creativity Business ManagementTips and Insights

Scaling up your business – how to systematize without stifling creativity

Have you ever been a part of an exciting new project/ start-up, which quickly became bogged down by bureaucracy and red tape as the team/ company…

ReadingraphicsOctober 17, 2015

Understanding Systems Thinking – The Beer Game Business ManagementLearning & Development

Understanding Systems Thinking – The Beer Game

The beer game was developed at the MIT in the 1960s to simulate a simple production/distribution system for one brand of beer. This is a…

ReadingraphicsOctober 14, 2015

What is “Flow” and how to “Get in the Zone” Motivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTime Management & ProductivityTips and Insights

What is “Flow” and how to “Get in the Zone”

Let's imagine this for a minute. You are ready in your starting pose, all set for your dance competition.  The music starts, and you feel…

ReadingraphicsOctober 11, 2015

What is the Core Identity of a Brand and How to Create a Strong One Business ManagementTips and Insights

What is the Core Identity of a Brand and How to Create a Strong One

What is the core identity of a brand? This is how you want your customers to relate to your brand. If you get conveying your…

ReadingraphicsOctober 8, 2015

How Can Technology Be Helpful in Enhancing Business Operations? Business ManagementScience, Technology & InnovationTips and Insights

How Can Technology Be Helpful in Enhancing Business Operations?

Technology has changed the digital realm, impacting how we do business, and reshaping our daily lives. From advanced tools and technological devices, access to technology…

ReadingraphicsOctober 3, 2015

Tips on Eliminating Time Wasters at Work Motivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTime Management & ProductivityTips and Insights

Tips on Eliminating Time Wasters at Work

Did you know that most common time wasters at work come from the very nature of our work? Wondering how? Let's break it down. 1.…

ReadingraphicsOctober 1, 2015

The Stockdale Paradox: where optimism meets pragmatism Motivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

The Stockdale Paradox: where optimism meets pragmatism

In the best-selling book by Jim Collins, Good to Great, one of the 6 ingredients that "good" companies used to become "great" was: confront the…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 29, 2015

Book Summary – The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success Book SummariesHappiness, Emotional Intelligence & Spiritual GrowthMoney and Personal FinanceMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentRelationships, Communication & Parenting

Book Summary – The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success

The Slight Edge is a philosophy, a new way of thinking. It helps us to make simple daily choices and take small actions, creating the…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 27, 2015

How to Invest Money for Predictable Returns Money and Personal FinanceTips and Insights

How to Invest Money for Predictable Returns

How to invest my money for predictable returns? In one of our earlier articles, we shared how you can develop sound money management habits using…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 25, 2015

Wooing and wowing your clients with outstanding customer service Business ManagementTips and Insights

Wooing and wowing your clients with outstanding customer service

Ask any company "is customer service important in your business?", and you will likely get a resounding "yes".  Yet, if you ask "how does your…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 21, 2015

Book Summary – Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life Book SummariesDecision-Making & Problem-SolvingHappiness, Emotional Intelligence & Spiritual GrowthPersonal DevelopmentSociology & EconomicsTime Management & Productivity

Book Summary – Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

The book answers the questions: "what is a good life", "how anyone can create an excellent life" and "how to transform every day activities into…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 19, 2015

Clear your thoughts like Dumbledore Personal DevelopmentTime Management & ProductivityTips and Insights

Clear your thoughts like Dumbledore

Are you a fan of the Harry Potter series of books and movies?  One of the cool "gadgets" that we love in the wizardry world…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 17, 2015

Made to Stick – Examples in graphics Business ManagementTips and Insights

Made to Stick – Examples in graphics

Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath is no doubt one of our favourite books about messaging and communications, with so many vivid…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 15, 2015

What are the Love Languages? How to Keep Your Love Tank Full Health and WellnessRelationships, Communication & ParentingTips and Insights

What are the Love Languages? How to Keep Your Love Tank Full

Are you enjoying a supportive and meaningful bond with your significant other? Do they feel the same way? We often form bonds through affection. Different…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 13, 2015

6 Surprising Ingredients behind Phenomenal Business Success Business ManagementTips and Insights

6 Surprising Ingredients behind Phenomenal Business Success

Great products/ services, strong management, big vision.... are these what you'd expect to be the ingredients for phenomenal success in business? Well, maybe not, according…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 8, 2015

Have the Cake and Eat It Too Business ManagementMoney and Personal FinanceMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

Have the Cake and Eat It Too

Many of us are familiar with the idiom "You can't have your cake and eat it too." But, is it really true? Well, apparently not…

ReadingraphicsSeptember 5, 2015

How to tap on different modes of thinking Leadership and TeamworkMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTime Management & Productivity

How to tap on different modes of thinking

Do you tend to be more optimistic or pessimistic? Are you always focusing on facts or making decisions based on your intuition? The next time…

ReadingraphicsAugust 31, 2015

What Rhonda Byrne didn’t tell you in The Secret Money and Personal FinanceMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

What Rhonda Byrne didn’t tell you in The Secret

In one of our earlier articles, we shared the 3-step creative process (Ask-Believe-Receive) outlined in Rhonda Byrne's international best-seller, The Secret.  We also separately zoomed…

ReadingraphicsAugust 26, 2015

Tips on How to Attract Money and Abundance in Life Money and Personal FinanceMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

Tips on How to Attract Money and Abundance in Life

Do you know people who amass large amounts of money only to lose them overnight?  Or others who can't seem to get out of certain…

ReadingraphicsAugust 24, 2015

Charisma vs. Quiet Doggedness: Here’s the resolution from Jim Collin’s 5 levels of leadership Business ManagementTips and Insights

Charisma vs. Quiet Doggedness: Here’s the resolution from Jim Collin’s 5 levels of leadership

Let's do a quick quiz - do you recognize any of these names? Colman Mockler Chales Coffin Darwin Smith Bill Allen Well, do you recognize…

ReadingraphicsAugust 21, 2015

Developing True Independence Motivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

Developing True Independence

Have you ever been impressed by someone who is crystal-clear about his beliefs, principles and values, yet can relate to and connect with people from different…

ReadingraphicsAugust 18, 2015

The 6 Jar Wealth Management System by T. Harv Eker Money and Personal FinancePersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

The 6 Jar Wealth Management System by T. Harv Eker

Many people try to get rich by emulating multi-billionaire Warren Buffett's investment strategy. There's great, though they miss (or choose to ignore) an important ingredient…

ReadingraphicsAugust 16, 2015

Ask-Believe-Receive: Here is How You Create Your Own Reality Using Visualization Money and Personal FinanceMotivation and PotentialPersonal DevelopmentTips and Insights

Ask-Believe-Receive: Here is How You Create Your Own Reality Using Visualization

You may have heard the saying, "You create your own reality." This idea suggests that our thoughts and actions shape our outcomes. While external factors…

ReadingraphicsAugust 14, 2015

Top 10 CEOs of All Time Business ManagementTips and Insights

Top 10 CEOs of All Time

If you enjoy business strategy books like Blue Ocean Strategy, Good to Great and Built to Last, then you wouldn’t want to miss Jim Collins’ pick of whom he considers…

ReadingraphicsAugust 12, 2015