Winning Without Losing: 66 strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life
Language: English
Pages: 305
ISBN: B00CI3M8VG
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Whatever your job is, chances are you find it hard to switch off. Today, we work longer hours, at weekends, at home and on the move - while the office is only ever a click away via smartphones and the Internet. But as much as we assume that this is the price of success - it doesn't have to be this way. Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne are here to show you how to build your business into something big, sustainable and widely recognized - and still lead a happy, whole and balanced life. In sixty-six short insights, they reveal strategies and methods which will allow you to combine professional success with putting friends, family and happiness first. Their Efficiency Boosters will increase your effectiveness, while you'll learn all about how to avoid Time and Energy Wasters and build a New Mindset that gives you to optimism and enthusiasm needed to succeed. So wave goodbye to guiltily checking your emails on a date, or getting home when your children are already in bed - this is your route to winning on every level.
TechStars and 500 Startups. He has set himself a mission of planting two trillion trees by 2020, and has set up the NGO WeForrest.org for this purpose. The counter on the website shows that the first 983,993 trees are in the ground and are helping to offset human CO2 emissions. CO2 weighs heavily on Liao’s mind. He once got a ride to the USA on a cargo ship. It took 3 weeks to get there, but the trip was 100% environmentally neutral. The trip also gave Liao plenty of time to think along the way.
his lathe Valde had a view of dozens of colleagues who, like him, were considered worth less than the tools they were using. ‘A worker is a 10-cent stamp,’ the factory owner used to remind his employees, referring to the amount it cost to send a letter to the employment office asking them to send a new worker to the factory the following morning. The work at the lathe was piecework; Valde and the others received a specific amount of money for each unit they produced. At a time and within a
everyone gets 24 hours in a day: Mitch Thrower, Einstein, Rockefeller, Oprah, Richard Branson and you. Use them wisely and you have more than enough time. Design Element #3: Split up and protect your day, don’t let work take it all over #4 Build back-up systems By Jordan Milne You’re an airline operating out of London’s Heathrow, the second busiest airport in the world and the hub that handles the most international traffic. You wake up to one of the most severe snow-storms in recent memory.
equation for success, but keeping our lives in perspective is critical to our own life balance. We need to see our projects in the greater context of our lives and the global community, as well as in relation to those who are less fortunate. So if we want to learn from these billionaires and scientists, live a longer, happier life and have as much fun as eating a gourmet meal or rolling around in bed (well, almost), then we should try reaching into our pockets and giving a bit more often. Life
technology. The boss gave him permission to go ahead, and in 1998 the new service was deployed for beta testing in the Central Bank of Russia. A year later, 80% of all transfers between Russian banks were running on this system. It wasn’t until 2006 that the system was replaced, and by then it was handling 1 million transactions a day. But Nick didn’t stay put long. By the end of 1999 he was already beginning to get bored, so he took a job as deputy CTO at one of the hottest Russian start-ups at