Pollard's original insights
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Big points in life
Free options
Informed mutual champions
Leverage and deliberate practice
Leverage and time management
Leveraging others' life capital
Life capital
Lollapaloser
One life-enriching conversation per month
Pollard's Paradox
Qualified deal flow
The financial/ Life Capital analogy
The tradability of options
Proven ideas from the experts
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Adler's "What of it?"
Bennis & Biederman's great groups
Cialdini's psychology of persuasion
Covey's emotional bankaccount
Covey's sharpen the saw
Covey's "win-win" mindset
Fisher's scuttlebutt
Graham's margin of safety
Granovetter's strength of weak ties
Johari Window
Lynch's 2 minute monologue
Maister's first law of service
Munger's forwards & backwards thinking
Munger's mental models
O'Kelly's concentric circles
Reichheld's ultimate question
Schwartz' manange your energy not time
Seligman's flexible optimism
Seligman's positive psychology
Senge's definition of failure
Senge's dialogue versus discussion
Surowiecki's wisdom of crowds
Taleb's black swan & serendipity
Taleb's scandal of prediction
Wegner's transactive memory
Whyte & Janis' groupthink
Inspirational stories to challenge you
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Alan Waddell
Bono
Brother Colm O'Connell
Colleen Barrett
Dr Raff
Gene O'Kelly
Hajeera's US$50 microfinance loan
Heart patients
Richard Feynman
Tiger Woods
Transplant recipients
So you are...
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A CEO
An entrepreneur building a business
A financial advisor
A human resources executive
A job seeker
A person looking to buy a business
A person whose life is in transition
A professional services provider
A woman executive
Reviews, Video/Podcasts, Presentations
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Articles / Reviews
Actuary Australia (June 2009)
AFR Boss (July 2009)
CEO Forum (Winter 2009)
CEO Forum Website (May 2009)
Charter Magazine (Dec 2009)
My Career
Video/Podcasts
2GB, with Ross Greenwood, Podcast
Business 21C, Video & Book Review
AICD Podcast
Institute of Actuaries - Podcast, Biennial Cenvention
Institute of Actuaries - Podcast, Insights
Presentations
Ferrier Hodgson - Presentation
Institute of Actuaries - Insights Slides
Institute of Actuaries - Paper, Biennial Cenvention
your comments
Comment by: Debbie Dunn
Mark Twain said "Great people are those who can make others feel they too can become great".
Ian thank you for one of the most inspiring and invaluable books I have ever read. I am at a significant crossroad on my journey and I now feel some of my choices are less daunting as I embrace daily opportunities for engaged conversation with whom ever I meet. At the end of the day I reflect on & marvel at the subtle synchronicity some exchanges bring.
I absolutely love your website - intelligent, innovative and fun to use.
My friends & family will be receiving this book (&link) for Christmas.