2000 Books for Ambitious Entrepreneurs - Author Interviews and Book Summaries
Mani Vaya
On 2000 Books podcast, we interview today's top Business and self help authors and get the the most important actionable ideas from the world’s greatest books for ambitious entrepreneurs. We also summarize classic business books and self help books for entrepreneurs such as Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich, Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence people, Good to Great, Lean Startup, Zero to One, Never Eat Alone, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos. Some of the authors interviewed include David Allen, Dan Pink, Adam Grant, Chris Brogan, Mike Michalowicz. Our goal is to provide you the best, most actionable ideas from these great books so that you as entrepreneurs, startup founders and CEOs can get to the next level in business and in life using the ideas from these great books
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Jun 6, 2016 • 39min
5:[Productivity] Deep Work - Cal Newport | 4 Rules for Producing more while working less
In DEEP WORK, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. We dive into both the parts of this book during our interview.
Jun 1, 2016 • 38min
4:[Sales] Go For No - Andrea Waltz| 3 Keys to Increase your success Rate in any endeavor
Andrea Waltz, author of 'Go For No', discusses the concept of embracing failure and rejection to achieve ultimate success. She explores the importance of shifting mindset, overcoming self-imposed limitations, and dealing with fear and anxiety. Ambitious entrepreneurs can learn and grow from her resources on goforno.com.
Jun 1, 2016 • 32min
3:[Entrepreneurship] Toilet Paper Entrepreneur - Mike Michalowicz| Why having fewer resources (not more) is the ultimate key to success
"Never started a company before? Struggling with little or no cash? Have no experience, no baseline to judge your progress against? Thank God! You've got a shot at making this work." So says Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, a business book that is so uniquely useful, so raw and entertaining, it reads like the brainchild of Steve Jobs and Chris Rock. The founder of three multimillion-dollar companies, including Obsidian Launch, a company that partners with first-time entrepreneurs to grow their concepts into industry leaders, Mike Michalowicz knows what it really takes to spin your great idea into pure gold.
Jun 1, 2016 • 31min
2:[Entrepreneurship] Exponentail Organizations - Salim Ismail | Why exponential organizations are 10x better, faster & cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)
In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company―the Exponential Organization―that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers.
Jun 1, 2016 • 32min
1:[Leadership] Drive - Dan Pink |The surprising truth about what motivates us
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Listen to my interview with Dan Pink as we unpack all these different kinds of motivations and learn how you can harness the power of all different kinds of motivations in business and life.
