This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, "Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create," by Al Ramadan, Christopher Lochhead, Dave Peterson, and Kevin Maney. Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can’t build a legendary company without building a legendary category. I took 3 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, "The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time" by Arianna Huffington.  We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, writes Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences – on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed, she boldly asserts, is nothing short of a sleep revolution.  Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives. I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'The Orderly Conversation: Business Presentations Redefined' by Greg Owen-Boger, Dale Ludwig.  The Orderly Conversation forces us to rethink how we present in front of an audience and gives us some techniques to organize our presentations to facilitate a conversation. I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future' by Peter Thiel.  Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by venture capitalist, PayPal co-founder, and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel who shares some of his most intelligent insights learned from his experiences. I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'The Challenger Sale: Taking Control Of The Customer Conversation' by Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson. What's the secret to sales success? If you're like most business leaders, you'd say it's fundamentally about relationships-and you'd be wrong. The best salespeople don't just build relationships with customers. They challenge them. I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success' by Ken Segall. Simplicity isn't just a design principle at Apple--it's a value that permeates every level of the organization. It's what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on earth in 2012. I took 10 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'Rise from Darkness: How to Overcome Depression through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Positive Psychology' by Kristian Hall. This self-help book about beating depression is special; it is not written by an academic, but by a person who overcame his own depression by following the techniques in the book. If you struggle with depression, you will be able to identify with the author and the text. "Rise from Darkness" was written by someone who really understands how you feel.  I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes' by Tom Roth. In Eat Move Sleep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom’s bestsellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise. Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping.   I took 3 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'Predictable Revenue' by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler. Before Predictable Revenue, Aaron worked at Salesforce.com, where he created a revolutionary Cold Calling 2.0 inside sales process and team that helped increase Salesforce.com's revenues by $100 million.  The same process has since also helped companies like Responsys (sold to Oracle to $1.5 billion), and Acquia (named the #1 fastest growing company in North America) dramatically speed up new sales growth.  I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Cut The Crap Podcast features the book, 'Agile Selling' by Jill Konrath. Sales guru Jill Konrath offers both new and experienced salespeople a plan for rapidly absorbing new information and mastering new skills by becoming agile sellers. Readers will learn the mindsets, learning strategies and habits that they can use in crazy-busy times to start strong and stay nimble. I took 4 Golden Nuggets away from this book! ---------- Go to CutTheCrapPodcast.com and signup to receive a summary from each episode that will highlight all of the golden nuggets shared in the podcast. ----------- Follow Ryan on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SnapChat.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.