Malcolm Gladwell goes on an intellectual journey through the world of "Outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. He explains...
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communication expert Garr Reynolds, creator of PresentationZen.com – shares his experiences in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with Power Point or Keynote. Presentation Zen challenges the controversial wisdom of making “slide presentations” in today’s world and encourages you to think...
The Snowball recounts the life and times of one of the most respected, well-known men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor now has allowed one writer, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.” Buffett has never told his full life...
An icon, Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story. The star of The Apprentice and developer of some of the planet's most prestigious real estate, he's been on the bottom and risen to become one of the world's wealthiest men. Bill Zanker started with $5,000 and created a $5 million a year company. That was before he met Donald Trump. Thirty months later, after Zanker learned to think BIG himself. He is now generating over $100 million a year in sales—and...