Annette Simmons is one of my favorites. I read and reviewed the “Story Factor”. It is one of the best Storytelling books available right now. There are a large number of storytelling, presentation technique etc. books and they are growing. What is peculiar with the whole thing is that there are a surprisingly number of really […]
Archive | May, 2011
Looking past limits by Caroline Casey
We all handle our “reality” in different ways. Some people are limiting by nature. They have a gift of finding what could be wrong with everything. Some people see themselves as victims of circumstances or victims of life. A huge number of people blame their parents, spouse, God, boss etc for their failure or shortcomings. Very few […]
Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
This is an interesting book with an interesting approach and layout. Each chapter is dedicated for a specific technique. There are a number of examples for each technique. I enjoyed a lot of the chapters, however, I found 35% of the content too hypothetical and far fetched. Of course this depends on who you are […]
Poke the box by Seth Godin
This is by far one of the best short-books I have ever read. In fact, stop reading this blog and spend the time on reading the actual book. In any frame of reference Seth Godin gets the maximum points for this book. The format, content, technique of storytelling etc. It all comes in a well balanced […]
Unlimited Power by Anthony Robbins
If you are interesting in motivation, leadership etc. you have hear about Anthony or Tony Robbins. There are hundereds good speakers and there are thousands of really bad motivational speakers. Tony is on the top 10 of these guys. You can have your opinion about the speakers as well as the people listening to them. I […]
Part 2/2: Advanced searching & saving searches
By Shahram on May 4, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
This is the last of two blogs, here is a link to the first one. Once you have played with the shortcuts and the simple search syntax it is time to create more advanced searches. Setting the scope: Here are some of keywords to limit and scope of your search. notebook: to limit which notebook […]
Part 1 of 2: Effective searching in EverNote
By Shahram on May 2, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
Searching is key in any media/circumstance. In the old days who ever could do a good search at Altavista, Yahoo or eventually Google was the king. I even had searching classes back in university for faculty and other students. Since than has the search engines evolved to let any type of search produce decent results. […]
