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FAN Courier Express (hereinafter FAN/FAN Courier/FAN Courier Express) offers and provides postal services included in the area of universal service, but also not included in the area of the universal service, in the matter of internal and international postal dispatches, under the following conditions:
FAN Courier Express accepts only postal dispatches packaged and duly labeled by the sender according to the item being sent, with an opaque outer cover that does not allow the contents to be viewed and has the full identification data of the recipient (first and last name/ name in the case of legal entities, the full address of delivery, telephone) and optional of the sender, except in the case of the reverse reimbursement, for which the sender's data is also mandatory.
By delivering the dispatches to the FAN agent/staff, the dispatcher agrees on the terms and conditions of FAN Courier Express, from the commercial offer of the provider, whether it signs or not the transport document (AWB).
The dispatcher is liable for the correctness of the data written on the postal dispatch and its appropriate packaging and labeling.
Approval conditions of postal dispatches
Weight and dimensions conditions:
Maximum approved dimensions and weights of the postal dispatch:
210 mm X 297 mm (A4 format) for envelopes, maximum weight 3 kg;
60 cm x 50 cm x 30 cm for parcels, maximum accepted weight is 30 kg.
Packaging conditions
To be approved in the postal network, the postal dispatches must fulfill the following packaging conditions:
Must be sealed by the dispatcher in an intact and opaque package, which does not allow the view of the content and must meet the conditions for weight, form and nature of the content and the mode and length of the transport;
The packaging must protect the content, so it cannot be damaged by pressure or successive handlings and it can be of: carton boxes, plywood, wood, plastic, metal, non-typified packages;
Must abide by the packaging conditions published on ro, in the FAN Courier Express SRL access points or specified in the contract signed with the dispatcher.
The postal dispatches which contain fragile goods must be packed appropriately by the dispatcher, using bubble wrap as padding, shockproof polystyrene or other material which attenuates the mechanical shock and to have the "Fragile" inscription applied. FAN Courier Express SRL is obliged to recognize and abide by the inscriptions/labels applied by the dispatcher and to grant a special attention in the handling and storage of the postal dispatches in question.
FAN Courier Express is not liable for the eventual total or partial losses, damages, damages provoked to the people, environment, used installations or other goods, provoked by hidden vices by packaging.
The postal dispatches must not contain:
Goods through which their nature or packaging mode can cause damage to people, environment, used installations or other goods;
Packages which have writings which contravene public order or good behavior, respectively goods which contravene public order or good behavior, if they are delivered unpacked or in transparent package;
Goods for which the transport is forbidden by legal dispositions, either only for a part of the road: guns, ammunitions, drugs, explosive/toxic/flammable material;
Goods for which there are special transport conditions, through legal, administrative, economical, sanitary, veterinary, phytosanitary dispositions: art works, antiquities, gold, silver, jewelry, perishable goods, living animals etc.
FAN Courier refuses to take over postal dispatches which contain the goods described previously and postal dispatches which do not abide by the FAN packaging conditions.
FAN Courier Express SRL provides dispatching services with declared value, services for which the characteristics will be the insurance of an internal or international dispatch against the loss, theft, total or partial destruction or damage, for a value which cannot exceed the value declared by the dispatcher (against a 1% tax of the declared value) and the issuance, on demand, after submission, respectively delivery of postal mail of a proof regarding the deposit of the postal dispatch, or delivery to the recipient, without being confirmed in writing by the recipient.
The term in which the dispatcher can request the proof regarding the deposit of the postal dispatch which makes the object of a dispatch service with declared value is of 9 months from its deposit date, FAN Courier Express SRL being obliged to communicate that respective proof in an average term of 2 working days from the request date, through a method agreed with the dispatcher or integrator (for example fax, e-mail etc.), without additional costs for the dispatcher.
In case of referral service with the declared value, the maximum accepted value of the declared value for domestic postal shipments is 5000 RON.
From this conditions respectively the maximum accepted limits, it can be derogated only through concluded commercial contracts, in written form, between sender/integrator and FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L. or between recipient and FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L, based on negotiable individual offers (supplementing the public offer).
FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L. does not offer and provide dispatching services with declared value having the object of international postal dispatching.
FAN Courier Express SRL provides the reimbursement service, a postal service which particularity consists in the payment by the receiver to the sender, through the postal network, of the value of the item which is the subject of registered domestic or international dispatch. These postal dispatches are only accepted if the sender has correctly and completely indicated all his identification data.
FAN Courier Express SRL offers and renders the postal reimbursement service exclusively in/from Bulgaria and Hungary (from Romania to Bulgaria/Hungary and Bulgaria/Hungary to Romania respectively).
The accepted currency for payments and money collection in case of COLLECTING ACCOUNT service is LEI or the local currency of the destination country.
The accepted currency in which the collection or payment of the money for the reimbursement service can be LEI or another currency.
Payment of money to the sender in the case of reimbursement service involving domestic postal dispatches is made both in cash and in a bank account.
The maximum amount accepted by the supplier for domestic postal items that are the subject of the cash on delivery service, for the paying client without a contract is:
Sender Consignee Maximum standard reimbursement (cash) Maximum reimbursement Amount for Collecting Account
Individual Individual 5,000 lei 5,000 lei
Individual Legal entity 5,000 lei 5,000 lei
Legal entity Legal entity 5,000 lei 5,000 lei
Legal entity Individual 5,000 lei 5,000 lei
The payment to the sender in the case of reimbursement service involving international postal dispatches is made exclusively in a bank account.
The maximum amount accepted by the supplier for international postal dispatches subject to the reimbursement Service is:
Bulgaria – max. 10.000 BGN / 5000 EURO – Collector Account
Hungary – max. 1 000 000 FT / 3280 EURO – Collector Account
From this conditions, respectively the maximum accepted limits, it can only be derogated through concluded commercial contracts in written form, between sender/integrator and FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L. or between recipient and FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L, based on negotiable individual offers" (supplementing the public offer).
The deadline for returning the equivalent of domestic postal dispatches to the sender (amounts collected from the recipient) is 2 business days from delivery, and for international ones, it is 7 days.
FAN Courier Express SRL provides the Receipt Confirmation service, a postal service for which the characteristic is the delivery towards the dispatcher of the proof regarding the delivery of the registered postal dispatch, confirmed in written by the receiver, physically or digitally (on email). The return term towards the dispatcher of the proof regarding the delivery of the postal dispatch, internal or international, confirmed in written by the receiver, is 2 working days from delivery in case of internal postal dispatches and 2 working days from delivery in case of international postal dispatches.
In case of loss of proof of receipt confirmation of the postal dispatch by the receiver, FAN Courier Express SRL drafts and makes available for the dispatcher a copy of it (physically or by email).
FAN Courier Express SRL provides the Express service, a postal service which implies cumulatively:
The issuance by FAN Courier Express SRL towards the dispatcher, of a document which allows the provider to internally identify the dispatch in the postal network and which attests the date, hour and minute of the delivery and generally, the payment of the tariff;
The delivery of the postal dispatch at the receiver's address, personally to him or towards the person authorized to receive the postal dispatch;
Fast delivery of the postal dispatch;
The liability of the provider for non-abidance by the delivery terms afferent to the postal dispatches which make the object of this service.
The delivery times guaranteed for the postal dispatches which make the object of the Express service are:
12 hours, service available only in Bucharest, for postal dispatches delivered/collected from Monday to Friday until 18.00
24 hours in case of provision between two county residence and intra county;
36 hours between any two localities in Romania.
FAN Courier Express SRL does not offer and does not provide the express service, with the object of international dispatches.
In case of exceeding the guaranteed delivery times for the Express service, FAN COURIER S.R.L. is liable towards the user by returning a 0.5% from the cashed tariff for each 12 hours of delay, but the indemnity cannot exceed the value of the cashed tariff.
FAN Courier Express SRL does not provide the Postal Order service on paper.
The pick-up of the postal dispatch is made through the staff employed at the access points served by FAN Courier staff or from the address specified by the dispatcher, by the courier (provider's staff) and by automatic collection systems (lockers).
All the postal dispatches are handed over sealed.
The delivery of the postal dispatch is made at the address specified by the dispatcher, personally towards the receiver or the person authorized to receive the postal dispatch at the contact point served by staff, personally by the receiver or the person authorized to receive the postal dispatch, after the prior transmission of an advice which announces the postal dispatch or an automatic delivery system.
The delivery of the postal dispatch to the address specified by the dispatcher or at a contact point served by staff can be made on Saturday, if the dispatcher requested this, mention which will be specified on the transport document (AWB) at the box observations « Delivery on Saturday ».
Delivery at lockers is made every day of the week.
When they are taken over, they will be weighted, measured and the weight taken into consideration will be the biggest one between the physical one and the volumetric one.
The calculation formula for the volumetric weight is length x width x height/6000 cm.
In the FAN warehouse they will be sorted/weighted by the weighting belt, only for the own records of the supplier (FAN).
Each access point and contact as wells as the FAN Courier's staff who collects postal dispatches from the dispatcher's address holds appropriate measurement instruments (homologated and metrological certified balance).
FAN Courier Express will not use handling methods of the postal dispatches which, by the activity of its employees or external factors can alter, damage the postal dispatch or its content throughout the period when it holds the postal dispatches,.
Also, FAN Courier Express does not condition the provision of the postal services by the opening of the postal dispatch, will not open the sealed postal dispatch and will not use handling methods that could give the possibility to any person to acknowledge the content of the postal dispatch.
The postal dispatch can be opened by the receiver before accepting it, if the dispatcher chose the service "Open at delivery" and paid in advance the value of the service.
FAN Courier Express will return the postal dispatch to the address of the dispatching client by applying a tariff equal to the one way service, according to the tariff specified in the commercial offer, in a term which cannot exceed the delivery term of the respective postal dispatch and is calculated, where applicable, from the expiry date of the specified keeping period or delivery attempt, if this could not be delivered to the receiver from the following reasons:
The address of the receiver does not exist or if at that address there is no building where the postal dispatch could be delivered;
The receiver/person authorized to receive the postal dispatch was not found at the specified address and the keeping term at the contact point served by staff, expired;
The receiver or person authorized to take over the postal dispatch refused, where applicable, the receipt of the postal dispatch, confirmation in written, according to the legal provisions of the postal dispatch receipt, in case of receipt confirmation service or paying the value of the good which makes the object of the cash on delivery service.
Except the postal dispatches which make the object of Express and Special Delivery services, in case of impossibility of delivering the postal dispatches towards the receiver (or authorized person), Fan Courier Express will notify the receiver through a notice which announces the arrival of the postal dispatch and will keep, at the contact point, to be delivered, the postal dispatch that could not be delivered to the receiver, for a period of 5 calendar days from the notification date or 7 calendar days from notification in case of delivery at certain contact points or lockers, according to the notification received by the receiver.
If the sender or the integrator requested in written, when delivering the postal dispatch or through contract, the return with celerity of the postal dispatch, without the notification of the receiver and, respectively, without keeping the postal dispatch at its disposition, Fan Courier Express will return with celerity the postal dispatch to the sender.
The postal dispatches which were not delivered to the receiver and returned to the dispatchers will be kept for 9 months in the FAN Courier Express warehouse from Bucharest. If during this time the dispatcher or the receiver did not claim the postal dispatch, it will pass without any prior notification or formality in the FAN Courier Express property. For any keeping of the postal dispatch at the dispatcher's or receiver's disposal, FAN Courier Express will perceive a tariff of 1 leu/day, after the expiry of the advice term.
Except the Express service, FAN Courier Express guarantees the delivery of any internal postal dispatch under good conditions and in full confidentiality, anywhere throughout Romania in an average term of 2 working days, without exceeding 3 working days, except the situation when delivery on Saturday was requested.
In case of exceeding these delivery times of the internal postal dispatches (except the Express service), and in case of exceeding all the return terms afferent to them, FAN Courier Express, is liable towards the user by returning a 5% of the cashed tariff for providing this service.
For postal dispatches over 3m length the delivery will be executed exclusively through the contact points served by staff of FAN Courier Express, after the prior sending of a notice which announces the arrival of the postal dispatch.
FAN Courier Express guarantees the delivery of any international postal dispatch under good conditions and full confidentiality, in a maximum term of:
12 working days in European Union and SEE;
14 working days outside European Union and SEE
In case of exceeding the guaranteed delivery times for the postal services containing international dispatches, FAN Courier is liable towards the user by returning the tariff cashed for that service.
The delivery terms do not include legal holidays from the dispatching and/or receiving countries, force majeure and unforeseeable circumstances.
Additionally, in case of international postal dispatches both parties will abide by the incident legal dispositions regarding customs and the law from the states where operations of postal services are provided and those crossed in transit by the postal dispatch.
The settlement mechanism of claims received from users
FAN Courier Express settled a simple, transparent and accessible settlement mechanism for claims, especially regarding theft, loss total/partial destruction or damage of the postal dispatches, and non-abidance by the quality conditions of the services (delivery, return terms etc.). The procedures allow the equal and prompt settlement of claims and an adequate reimbursement or compensation system.
The introduction term of the prior claim addressed to the provider of postal dispatches is of 6 months and is calculated from the date of delivery of the postal dispatch.
The provider of postal services is obliged to settle the prior claim in a term of 3 months from its introduction date.
The dispatcher or receiver dissatisfied by the offered services (lack of providing the service or inappropriate providing of the service) can make a written claim by personal submission at any of the FAN Courier Express branches, by e-mail at customer@fancourier.ro, phone 021.9336 or can send it by registered letter through the postal service confirmation of receipt at 32 Sos de Centura, Stefanestii de Jos, Ilfov, to the attention of the Customer Relations department.
In order to settle the claim, the claimant user will have to describe in the content of the claim the event (facts, actions and causes), afferent to the claim, to specify his claims, chosen payment method in case of indemnity and necessary information to receive the indemnities and contact data (if the claim is considered founded, the applicant must be contacted), to submit relevant proof for correct and complete analysis, appropriate to the claimed event (such as, if applicable, AWB, document which proves the postal service copy, invoice issued by the provider, photos, package of the postal dispatch, damaged good which makes the object of the dispatch, copy of the record of findings etc.) and to make available any other data and information that might be useful to settle the claim.
The claim is analyzed and settled individually, for each postal dispatch.
The Client Relationship Department registers each claim and confirms its receipt based on the receipt mode, so: by issuing/handing a registration number in case of claims made personally, by phone(SMS), email if the applicant makes his email address public or requests this, by appropriate filling in and signing the receipt confirmation in case of a claim written and dispatched by envelope with confirmation of receipt, respectively through the answering address in case of a claim received by any postal service different from the confirmation of receipt service, when there is an express request for this from the applicant, regarding the confirmation mode of the claim, his request will be taken into consideration.
Any claim will be registered in the « Electronic Register of Claims » and the requester will be indemnified based on the type of chosen service, with declared value or not, in a maximum term of 30 days from the favorable completion date of the claim, without exceeding the term of 3 months from its introduction date.
If the claim is founded, the indemnity will be offered cash at the nearest FAN Courier branch, by postal order or bank transfer, if the requester is natural person and if the requester is a legal entity, the indemnity will be given by payment order or compensation. The claim will be considered founded, if according to the legal dispositions and provisions of this document, FAN Courier Express is obliged to provide indemnities.
In case of a postal service provided by more providers, the provider who delivered the postal dispatch is obliged to send the received claims, for settlement, to the provider who picked up that postal dispatch.
FAN Courier EXPRESS S.R.L. is liable, in case of loss, theft or total damage for internal postal dispatches, such:
With the full declared value, for a postal dispatch which makes the object of a dispatch service with declared value, including when that postal dispatch does or does not make the object of a service with reimbursement;
With the value of the reimbursement, for a postal dispatch which makes the object of a service with reimbursement without declared value;
With the value representing 5 times the tariff of the service, for postal dispatches which do not make the object of a dispatch service with declared value or service with reimbursement;
In case of loss, theft or total damage, besides the above mentioned indemnities, the tariffs cashed when the postal dispatch was delivered are also returned.
FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L. is liable for internal postal dispatches, in case of loss or partial damage or destruction, as it follows:
With the declared value for the lost, destroyed or damaged part or with the appropriate share of the lost weight from the declared value, for postal dispatches which make the object of a dispatch service with declared value;
With the value representing 5 times the tariff of the service, in case of partial loss, partial damage or destruction of the postal dispatches which do not make the object of a dispatch service with declared value.
In case of a dispatch which makes the object of a service with reimbursement, FAN COURIER EXPRESS S.R.L. is liable for the full value of the reimbursement if it did not return to the sender its full value or with the appropriate difference up to its full value, if the reimbursement was partially cashed from the receiver.
If the dispatcher declared a value smaller than the real one, the indemnity is at the level of the declared value.
In case of non-performance of the provisions which constitute additional characteristics of the postal services, named by the dispatcher through special specifications, only the tariffs, cashed in additionally to the applicable tariff for the standard postal service, will be returned.
The total loss of the content is equal to the loss of the postal dispatch.
If the claim addressed to the provider of postal services FAN Courier Express SRL was not settled conveniently or this was not answered in the term provided in the hereby general conditions regarding the provision of the postal services, the user in question can advance a claim to the regulation authority along with the proof of fulfillment of the prior claim procedure or a sue petition, in one year term from the delivery date of the postal dispatch,. The suing petition can be introduced whether a claim with the same object was advanced or not to the regulation authority.
In the following cases FAN Courier Express is exonerated of liability:
The damage was produced after an action of the dispatcher or receiver;
The user does not have a service for receiving the postal dispatches (example registration)
The dispatch was received without objections by the receiver, except the claims regarding the loss, theft, damage or total or partial destruction of the content of the postal dispatch;
The damage produced after a force majeure event or unforeseeable circumstances; in such a case the dispatcher is entitled to have the paid tariffs returned, except the insurance tariff.
FAN Courier Express SRL is liable for the international dispatches according to the provisions of the articles regarding the compensation of internal dispatches.
Handling of personal character data
SC FAN Courier Express SRL knows the importance of personal data and undertakes to protect their confidentiality and security.
According to the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation no. 679/2016 al U.E. for the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data, SC FAN Courier Express SRL manages safely and only for the specified purposes, the personal data provided in the context of the site's visit and the purchase of SC FAN Courier Express SRL services under the brand: FAN Courier.
The purposes for which we collect and process personal data
SC FAN Courier Express SRL collects and processes personal data for the following processing purposes:
administering, improving and performing the services provided by www.fancourier.ro.
commercial sales services, including the creation, management and development of service sales on the www.fancourier.ro website, customer account management, market research / studies, statistics.
advertising, marketing and advertising, promotions of SC FAN Courier Express SRL services, promotion of promotional campaigns, transmission of newsletters (newsletters), tracking and monitoring of sales of services and consumer behavior.
post-sales activities, including customer service, informing users / customers about the evaluation of the services offered (including the evaluation of services on the www.fancourier.ro website), improving the quality of the repair and maintenance services of the products marketed through the activity carried out in the within the Call Center service; performing service interventions, product replacements.
for probative purposes in connection with the above activities and archiving.
Under the Regulation, any individual may exercise the following rights
to be informed about the processing of personal data;
access to personal data;
rectification of personal data;
deleting ("the right to be forgotten") of personal data;
to obtain restriction of processing;
to portability of data;
to oppose the processing of personal data and to request the rectification, updating or deletion of data under the law – in the case of personal data processed for direct marketing purposes, this right may be exercised at any time, free of charge and without justification;
not to be subject to an automated individual decision, including the creation of profiles;
to file a complaint with ANSPDCP Supervisory Authority;
to appeal to the courts if violations of the relevant legislation have been found.
These rights can be exercised by sending an e-mail to SC FAN Courier Express SRL by accessing the contact form at fancourier.ro/contact, in writing at the following mailing address: shos. Glucose Factory, no. 11C, sector 2, Bucharest, or e-mail of Data Protection Officer (DPO) dataprotection@fancourier.ro.
Time of data processing
For the data declared within the call center service, the duration of the data processing is 3 years, as a rule, or until the exercise of the right to object. Also, SC FAN Courier Express SRL can store personal data for such a long period of time, for probation and archiving purposes.
The hereby document is an integrated part of the commercial offer of FAN Courier Express SRL, representing the general clauses of the individual contract which will be considered signed between the dispatcher and FAN Courier Express SRL, when accepting the postal dispatch in the postal network. The individual contract is signed by accepting the provider's offer by the dispatcher, without the necessity to draft a document.
S.C. FAN Courier Express SRL
Felix – Lucretiu Patrascanu


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In this episode Salim Ismail gives a deep dive of his book, Exponential Organizations where he shows you how any company, from a startup to a multi-national, can become exponential. In his book, Ismail unveils years of research learning how organizations can accelerate growth through the use of technology. The goal of the book is to provide you with the knowledge to leverage assets such as big data, communities, algorithms, and new technology to achieve performance ten times better than your competition. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need a guide for harnessing and strategizing the hyper growth of a company that feeds off of modern technology in the 21st century and beyond. The Book's Unique Quality Because we focus on accelerating technologies and the future we identified an inflection point in how we build businesses that has never noticed before. The Best Way To Engage You can jump in as needed but I would suggest reading the first two chapters first because it lays the premise and basis of the book. The Reader's Takeaway As we finish the book the core economic basis of these new exponential organizations kind of bubbled up. When you are building and running a business you are worried about money and cost of supply and worried about cost of demand. The internet allowed us to drop our cost of demand exponentially. A Deep Dive Into The Book We open chapter one basically by saying the world is moving exponentially quicker. As we digitize things we hop onto what we call Moore's Law and the pace of change moves very, very quickly at an accelerating pace. Where we saw computers move at this pace over the last 50 to 60 years based on Moore's Law we're not seeing six, seven or eight technologies hop onto that same curb. The first chapter is to give a hard reality check that the world is moving more quickly than we've ever seen it before and we give some specifics on how that works. The second chapter talks about our organizational structures and the fact that how we organize ourselves is very linear and has been for a long time. All of our businesses have inherited a local and linear characteristic where if you had twice as big of a farm you need twice as many people to farm it. We are seeing today that an information based environment actually accelerates and doesn't just stay linear. We are seeing new organizations that are scaling at an accelerating rate and not just as a multiplier. In this chapter we teach you how to make your organization adapt to this new accelerated pace. Chapter three looks at the five externalities of these organizations and I open this chapter by saying all these exponential organizations have one single visionary mission statement characteristic. Each has what I call an MTP (Massive transformative purpose). Chapter three continues to describe five externalities and map onto the acronym SCALE. S stands for Staff on Demand. C stands for Community and Crowd. The A stands for Algorithms. The L stands for leveraged Assets. And the E stands for Engagement. Chapter four dives into the five internal control mechanisms that these organizations are using to manage and track themselves. This maps on to the word IDEAS. The I stands for Interface Processes. The D stands for Dashboards. The E stands for Experimentation. The A stands for Autonomy. And the S stands for Social Technologies. What we found is if you implement four out of the 10 attributes that we described in chapter three and four you will get to the 10x level. Chapter five summarizes all of it and explains the implications of this new model. This chapter goes through a whole set of implications about how to think about the future. The second half of the book, chapter six to chapter ten, explains how to apply it. Chapter six is about how to apply this to a startup. And when you are starting a company from scratch what sequence to go in. This chapter will give you the specific steps to take to launch a startup with these principles in mind. Chapter seven is about how to apply this to a midmarket company. There are a lot of midmarket family style businesses that have grown early on but have now plateaued and this is about taking that and blowing it open. Chapter eight is about how to organize a big company because you can't take a big organization and turn it in to one of these new animals, it's too disruptive of a change. What you need to do is take a disruptive set of changes agents that exist in all organizations and build one of these exponential organizations off the edge of your own attacking in another marketplace. Chapter nine is a set of nine success stories of what big companies are doing. In the final chapter we talk about the role of the executive in the future.
In this episode Peter Voogd shares his book, 6 Months To 6 Figures, where he reveals the exact strategies he's used to go from dead broke to over 6 figures in 6 months in multiple industries. In his book, Voogd gives you real world, tactical strategies to maximize your income, get large projects done in less time, and create the perfect lifestyle for you. The goal of the book is to help you enjoy higher levels of fulfillment, more passion, increased energy, and constant achievement. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are tired of an inconsistent income, have low productivity, and don't have enough time to get things done, but are serious about becoming successful. The Book's Unique Quality (6:23) Everything is based on experience, results, and past succeed and failure. It's the no sugarcoating way to get to where you want to be. And it's real world tactical strategies from my 10 years of experience. I also have a real authentic and raw understanding of what it takes to motivate and inspire the millennials and leaders of today. The Reader's Takeaway (21:53) You have to understand the power of focusing on mastery verses overload. Those who have more than three priorities really don't have any. People are so overloaded with information and the second you become overwhelmed you seek distraction. The number one reason why most people don't succeed is because they never have ever told themselves that now matters. A Deep Dive Into The Book (10:57) Since I already explained chapters one and two I will start with chapter three. Chapter three is the money mindset and what money really matters. So the big focus is getting in the right mindset to attract money and I go through eight very tactical strategies on how to make sure you're maximizing your income in the most efficient, intentional, and effective way possible. From there I go to the actual six steps to six figures and I do a broad spectrum on my story and how I came about. The first must is absolute clarity. When I was broke and struggling I realized I need to get clear on who I was, who I wasn't, what my strengths were and what I wanted. It's easy to make decisions when you determine what your values are so I realized that I hated being broke and I knew I didn't want to settle for a normal job or work for someone else. In this part of the book I walk the read through a 90 day challenge where they pick their goals for the month and they figure out the most top 10 compelling reasons to hit those goals. I also talk about the power of reverse engineering. This is where you figure out your ideal six month outcome. After you have absolute clarity, you got to increase your most important account which is your confidence account. Everybody has a confidence account inside them and based on that confidence account is what they've accomplished or haven't accomplished. So I go through the biggest tactics and comprehensive tips on how to build your confidence. I talk about the biggest thing you can do to build your confidence is choose growth in the moment. The third aspect I talk about is shifting your circle of influence. I walk the reader through an activity I learned at a Tony Robbins business mastery event that made the whole event worthwhile. And I give away hundreds of thousands of dollar information in here. I also give the reader an outline e-mail on what you can send to millionaires and billionaires to reach out to and get a response. After you shift your confidence you then want to make sure that you have consistent energy and motivation. I go through energy tactics and how to maximize your energy and motivations. Those who don't make time for exercise and energy will eventually have to make time for illness. I realized that no matter how successful you are, if you don't have energy, you have nothing. Next is about peak performance secrets of the world's greatest. I've studied peak performance for 10 years and I've put my best 10 tactics in this section on 10 game changing productivity strategies that you can use right away to really help your results. The next chapter is crafting your perfect result rituals. And what I've realized is the amount of stress people have in their life is in direct correlation to the lack of systems or rituals they have in place. So I literally go through how to create rituals to make sure you have topnotch habits. Lastly I talk about how to continually grow and how to make sure you're becoming who you need to become to build a world class life. This is not just how to make six figures, it's how to sustain it year after year and how to build a champion type world class life that is inspiring for others as well.
Introduction In this episode Jay Papasan reveals all his insights on his and Gary Keller's national bestseller, The One Thing where they reveal the surprisingly simple truth behind achieving extraordinary results. In their book Papasan and Keller provide you with a simple yet effective approach to improving the results in every area of your life including your work, personal health, relationships, and inner spirit. The goal of the book is to help you be more productive, become healthy and fit, increase your paycheck, boost business sales, build a career, and nurture stronger relationships with others. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are tired of living mediocre lives and need an actionable system that will help them achieve results they never thought possible. The Book's Unique Quality (3:54) I think the combination of the way I write and the way Gary thinks is we are both very practical. I think we have a proven system and our ways to implement it is what makes all the difference. The Best Way To Engage (4:48) We organized the book as teachers and coaches by what they needed first. The Reader's Takeaway (21:50) I want people to internalize this idea of the focusing question. I think a lot of times we are not appropriate in our moments because we are not really clear about where we are going. When you know what your one thing is you need to hold on to it because that allows you to say no to stuff. A Deep Dive Into The Book (6:14) I think that we are living as business people in a time through technology, through a connected flat world, where we have unlimited opportunity. The things that we can say yes to in terms of business opportunities, people, and networking opportunities, are really crazy and we haven't evolved to having an understand of what we really need to say no to. There are six lies that we believe that we think makes sense but in reality they don't. One of the six lies is that everything matters equally. That in a world of too many choices, too many obligations, and a to-do list that get too long, in our rush to do everything we end up treating everything as if it's equal. The first big lesson of the book is taking the idea of priority and applying it to our to-do list. Take your list of all the things you could do and identify the things that you should do, and do those first. The next big thing that gets in the way is when people try to do two things at once and call it multitasking. Research shows that when you try to do two things at once you lose time and efficiency. In the heart of the book is a very humble question we call The Focusing Question. And if there was one habit we wanted people to take away it's this idea right now of knowing your number one priority. And we want them to say this question… What's the one thing I can do, such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? This question was formed through years and years of consulting with entrepreneurs. When you identify your one thing, the best way to get people to do it is to make an appointment with themselves to do it. In our research the most successful people use their calendars primarily not to meet with other people, but to schedule time for themselves to do their most important work. So identify your one thing, you make an appointment with yourself to do it on a regular basis, and then you let that lead your results. What we saw is that a lot of people would have the appointment show up but they would not have a place where they could effectively work. So we teach people to build a bunker, find a place in your life that you can really get focused and be able to give your full attention to the things that matter most. Also, store provisions, once you have that place you need to make sure that you have everything that you need to work. You also want to turn off any electronics that could possibly distract you from your one thing. And lastly you want to enlist support. People always underestimate how much the people in their environment will come and help them if they will just tell them why keeping this time is important. NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 06:14 The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (1:16) I live in Austin, Texas. My wife runs a highly successful real estate team here called The Papasan Property Group and we have two kids, Gus and Veronica. In the big picture I grew up in Memphis Tennessee, spent about 20 years in publishing before settling with my family here in Austin to be a writer.
Introduction In this episode Emily Guy Birken takes a deep dive into her book, The 5 Years Before You Retire, where she reveals a comprehensive guide to planning your retirement early. In her book Birken gives you a complete overview of retirement planning with simple strategies that explain how you can maximize your last years before retiring through conservative financial decisions. The goal of the book is to help you save money for your future, get the most value from your 401K, and maximize your current savings that is realistic for years to come. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who have a very basic understanding of what it takes to retire and need a simple yet comprehensive guide that will educate on the early steps of retirement. The Book's Unique Quality (2:46) The big thing is that I am focusing very specifically on the actions that the reader needs to take to be prepared. The Best Way To Engage (3:32) For the people who don't have a background in finance and who are just now thinking retirement for the first time, it makes sense to start on the first page and read through to the end. For those who have been saving for a while and feel like they got a good handle on some things, I would suggest jumping around to the part of the book that fits their needs best. The Reader's Takeaway (12:43) I would say to manage your expectations. It's not bad to dream about all the things you want to do but you must remember that retirement cannot solve all your problems. You need to manage your expectations and find your contentment within yourself. A Deep Dive Into The Book (4:28) I have the book broken up into three parts. Part One is about the nitty-gritty of your finances for retirement. Part Two I call The Government Giveth and Taketh Away. And Part Three is Home, Family, and Other Considerations. In the first part, The Nitty-Gritty of Your Finances, I start by helping you figure out how far away you are, how much money you have, and how much money you might need. I liken saving for retirement to be similar as starting a weight loss journey. The first thing you have to do is know where you are. So if you are starting a weight loss journey you have to first step on the scale and if you are starting a retirement journey you have to figure out how much money you have and how much you will need. The first two chapters are all about figuring out what you can count on and how much you will need to live comfortably. And then the second chapter is all about maximizing your savings and your budgeting over the last few years before retirement. The third chapter is about how to structure your income in retirement. The fourth chapter is on how to find the right financial planner. I am a daughter of a financial planner and have a very rosie view of financial planning but I also want to make it clear that you need to be your own advocate in finding a financial planner. I go through all the different ways of what you need to do to find a financial planner that you can work with and trust including questions to ask. From there I talk about what to expect from Medicare. There are a lot of potations for Medicare and it's a little overwhelming so it's a good idea to know what to expect before getting into retirement. Finally, I talk about how to plan for healthcare options in retirement. The final section, Home, Family, and other Considerations, I talk about what your housing options are in retirement and that includes staying in your home to moving into a retirement community. I also cover things like reverse mortgages and how that can work. I talk about family fortunes, how your retirement will affect your children, your grandchildren, and potentially your elderly parents. I also talk about creating a budget on a retirement income. The last two chapters I cover common retirement pitfalls and the 10 possible things you could do that would screw up your retirement. I go through what these common pitfalls are and show you how to avoid them. Finally, I talk about what to do if you don't have enough saved and what your options are in that situation. NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 04:28 The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (0:35) I am a Personal Finance writer; I write on the internet, on many different sites. I'm also an author and currently on my second book on retirement called Your Retirement Path. I was frustrated by the fact that retirement planning books all seemed to focus on younger workers, those who are in their 30's and 40's. And then there are some books on stretching your budget for those who are already retired but there didn't seem to be any guides available for that crunch time in those five years before you retire. I wanted to fill that gap for those who are looking at retirement in the very near future.
In this episode Todd Kashdan takes a deep dive into his book, The Upside of Your Dark Side where he reveals over 15 years of research on the science of happiness, love, creativity, and relationships. In his book Kashdan provides the simple tools that will help you get through the negative emotions and launch you to the highest peak in your life. The goal of the book show you how you can truly maximize your potential in any situation. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who need help turning simple negative emotions such as anger, guilt, and self-doubt into powerful actions that improve your effectiveness. The Book's Unique Quality (4:22) There are very few books out there on this topic. It's couched in scientific research for how to get the best of your personality in the difficult and pleasurable situations. The Best Way To Engage (5:30) It's a very breezy read. I think the best way is to read from beginning to end but it's sectioned in a way that you can pick your way through. The Reader's Takeaway (35:43) That while we all want to have a high frequency of moments it's important to know that negative emotions and the tools that help us get through are the springboards to the highest peaks in our life. A Deep Dive Into The Book (6:52) One of the most important premises of the book is if you ask people what the fundamental objective in life is 80% to 90% of people will say it's to be happy. The best strategy to live a life well lived is to have an attitude where you're present with an attitude of curiosity and you're constantly plugging away doing what matters. For the first part of our book we talk about the benefits towards negative emotions. Instead of trying to categorize and label our emotions we must think of what's useful and not useful for the exact situation that you are in. We need to focus on not being more positive or happy but being emotionally agile. The next part of the book we move to social agility. Part of making a contribution to the world is to recognize the value of the sides of your personality that deviate from generosity and kindness. The entrepreneur that does not have a big vision of why they want to make a change in the world, what that change is going to be and why they think they are the perfect catalyst for that, is not going to get angle investor funding. A striving for supremacy, which is one of the components of narcissism, is fundamental to making tracking towards big aspirational goals and we walk your through exactly what those steps are. In this type of environment where we hire consultants and experts to come on to our team for short periods of time, narcissism works extremely well to get traction, get allies and form a strong confident tribe in the face of adversity and difficulty. Another characteristic we talk about is psychopathy which we use Teddy Roosevelt as the example. One of the elements of psychopathy is fearless dominance; the willingness to be bold with your decisions knowing that 20% to 30% of people will disagree with you. We walk through the parts of your personality that might not be socially attractive to talk about but actually are exactly what you need every once and awhile. In the third part of the book we talk about mental agility. In our society there is an obsession with mindfulness being the panacea for everything. There are incredible benefits of mindlessness and being present with your negative emotions. When we prematurely discard aspects of our personality because they are not comfortable we dismiss psychological strengths that are at our win and we give them away for nothing. And those people that are comfortable in being whole which means whatever part of their personality that arises for the situation to help that they are willing to use those tools effectively to get the best possible outcome. These are the people who are going to accomplish more than the ones who are only going to be have human focusing only on positivity and kindness. The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (0:37) I am a psychology professor at George Mason University, a Senior Scientist at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being and an author of four different books. The four books are Curious?, Designing Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Positive Psychology, and The Upside of Your Dark Side. My Co-author and I have been studying the science of happiness, love, creativity and relationships for about 15 years. Both of us have read numbers of books that our colleagues have written about how to integrate this in the workplace and we have always been dissatisfied with it. We wrote this book to rectify what you need to do to flourish and function optimally in a world where we are overwhelmed. This is 15-20 years of science pulled together in one book.
Introduction In this episode Carson Tate takes a deep dive into her book, Work Simply, where she provides a system to help make work less complicated and more organized. In her book Tate gives you a step-by-step productivity system that is separated into four custom styles that are uniquely fit for different types of learners and doers. The goal of the book is to help you identify your own unique productivity style, maximize your effectiveness, lead great meetings, communicate properly, and tell how your desk defines your work style. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that maintain a very busy schedule, work over 40 hours a week, and need help organizing tasks into an effective system. The Book's Unique Quality (4:15) The key difference from my book is that it is based on this concept that I developed called productivity style. In the book you take an assessment to determine your thinking style and once you discern your type then the rest of the book you customize strategies and tools based on your type. The Best Way To Engage (5:22) I absolutely do not recommend you read my book front to back. I would suggest that you go to the chapter or chapters in the book that speak to your current challenge and read that content. The Reader's Takeaway (14:04) It would be to personalize your productivity. Decide to no longer accept a one size fits all solution for your time or e-mail or communication challenges. Push back and understand your thinking style and then rigorously filter and only allow in those strategies and tools that are in alignment with you and the way that you work. A Deep Dive Into The Book (7:38) Early on in the book there is a chapter on your productivity style, why it matters, and how to identify it. Then the book moves into the areas that I think most of us really struggle with in our businesses. In this section there is a chapter about Managing Your Attention and in our 24/7, always connected world, how do you manage your attention so that you're able to focus on your goals and priorities. And this chapter looks at how to control against distractions, how to manage "emergencies", and also how to manage your technology. Then the books moves on to Setting Priorities. Everybody knows about setting priorities but I introduce a new framework here that I call Ready Goals and these goals are slightly different than most of us have been taught around Smart Goals in that they are realistic, exciting, action oriented, directive, and ultimately they are yours. Next I look very specifically at the challenge we face like investing your time wisely, how to free your brain and build an effective master task list, how to get more done, and then how to tame your inbox. And then we move into how to shape your space. How do you shape your physical environment regardless of where you work for optimal performance? Each of the sections start with best practices and each one have very specific strategies for you based on your productivity style. Each chapter also has very detailed charts that make it very easy to access the information and most of them are downloadable from the website. In the third part of the book we talk about how to work more effectively with others. This section looks at how to delegate effectively and gives you charts on productivity style clues so that you can identify the style of your direct reports, the style of your investors and vendors. Then there is a section on working well with others and why we have what I call these productivity clashes and what to do about them. And the finally piece in this section is around meetings and how to get work done in and through them. I end the book with a high level summary so that you can pull out the nuggets and take away what you want. NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 07:38 The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (1:23) I am the owner and founder of a company called Working Simply and that's my personal mission as well as my company's mission to help individuals, teams, and organizations streamline and simplify their workflow. I am very privileged to have the opportunity to work with really high achieving entrepreneurs and business owners and as I was working with them I was finding that they were struggling in trying to adopt and adapt some of the time management, productivity, best practices in the marketplace. So they were feeling frustrated and overwhelmed because the latest and greatest app or blog post that they read wasn't working for them. I realized that it wasn't the lack of drive but rather the tools that they were using weren't aligned to the way they think. So I wanted to write a book that helped people identify the way they think and then align their thinking styles to the way they actually work so that they can be more productive and more discerning.
A summary of things you should know about The Little Book of Clarity according to Jamie Smart: Introduction In this episode Jamie Smart reveals all his insights on The Little Book of Clarity where he provides you with a quick guide to focus and declutter your mind. In his book Smart expands on his original book Clarity and provides you with new, powerful ways to improve your productivity, eliminate stress, and master the art of innate thinking. The goal of the book is to help you create more relationships, meet personal goals, pinpoint negative goals, and train your brain to start prioritizing your day-to-day life more clearly. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are constantly bombarded with an extensive to-do list and need an effective manual that will clear their head in order to get things done efficiently. The Book's Unique Quality (3:18) You'll find that almost all other books about productivity and clearing your mind is going to give you a whole bunch of things to do, things to practice, and things to remember. It didn't make sense to me how you could help someone to have a clear mind by giving them more things to think about and do. My book doesn't give you anything to do, anything to remember, or anything to practice and as you start to understand how it all works then it starts to implement automatically. All you need to do is read the book and it'll do the work for you. The Best Way To Engage (4:25) It really is one to be read in sequins and in fact one of the earliest chapters tells you about a way of reading in which I call reading for insight. The Reader's Takeaway (14:36) A simple misunderstanding about how the mind works is the cause of pretty much all the struggles that you face in your life and all the struggles we face in society. When you clear up that misunderstanding your life is going to instantly improve. A Deep Dive Into The Book (5:36) The introduction is setting the scene and you'll find it talking about things that you can relate to and it'll be setting a different direction for it. You'll also find that at the end of every chapter there is a QR code that you can scan with your smartphone and it'll take you to videos that explain the chapters in more depth. I wanted to make this a book that you can use in an interactive way. The first chapter is called Misunderstanding; the hidden trap and it kind of sets the perspective. The principles behind clarity are to our psychology what the discovery of germs was to medicine. The second chapter is called The Power of Insight and that's about how when you read the book you are going to read it for something that comes from inside of you. That may sound strange but the nice thing about it is that there is nothing you need to practice or remember. Chapter three is a technical chapter called How Perception is Created and it's just explaining how your senses and mind works. We talk about tricks of the mind because so many things we struggle with as entrepreneurs really are just tricks of the mind. Chapter four is talking about The Power of Principles and that's about the principles that run our minds and emotional systems. When you understand these principles it makes everything a lot easier. The other thing you'll find in this chapter is what I call the clarity equation which is clarity equals capacity minus contamination. The idea of that is we all have the capacity for the good stuff but what gets in the way of it is what I call contaminated thinking. The other thing you are going to find in that chapter is what I call the deep drivers and they are eight powerful values that every single one of us has that help us create the things we want to create. Chapter five is the Psychological Immune System. You know how you got a physical immune system? Well you've also got a psychological immune system. Just like your physical immune system is there to take care of your body, your psychological immune system is there to take care of your psychology. Chapter seven is called Stress; the source and the solution. In chapter eight you are going to discover what I call the ultimate leverage point. As an entrepreneur one of the most powerful things you can get is leverage so this chapter is about the ultimate leverage point. In the next eight chapters you will dive into each of those deep drivers in depth. Chapter seventeen is called There's Only One Problem and that's the one thing that gets in the way of that stuff. In chapter eighteen I introduce you to what I call penicillin for the mind. Just like penicillin goes wherever it's needed in your body to care infection, this penicillin for the mind goes everywhere in your psychology to give you what you need.
In this episode Frank Cespedes takes a deep dive into his book Aligning Strategy and Sales where he brings business strategy and sales together in order to make your business scale. In his book Cespedes teaches you how to bring together your strategy with the behaviors you're going to need in selling in order to execute that strategy. The goal of the book is to offer a road map to articulate strategy in ways that people in the field can understand and that will fuel the behaviors required for profitable growth. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs or CEOs who are looking to scale a new startup or create new sustainable growth of an already established business. The Book's Unique Quality (3:51) The world needed a book that brings together strategy and sales. My book is not simply a strategy book or a selling tip book but it is about how to bring together your strategy with the behaviors you're going to need in selling in order to execute that strategy. The Reader's Takeaway (17:06) Value is created or destroyed in the marketplace not meetings. A Deep Dive Into The Book (6:00) I start from an assumption that I think is a pretty darn good assumption. In business value is created or destroyed in the marketplace with customers. The market includes the industry you compete in, the customers segments where you choose to play and the buying processes of the customers that you sell and service. If a company has a strategy, as opposed to a wish list, those factors should inform a strategy and that strategy sales task. From there you need to align actually selling behaviors with the required task and ultimately entrepreneurs, managers and incorporations basically have three levers to do that. First and most importantly are people; who your sales people are and what they know. The second lever is control systems; the company's performance management practices. And the third lever is the sales environment; the wider company context in which sales initiatives get developed and executed. I think companies can use this framework to do a few important things. First, make sure in their strategy meetings they are having the right dialog and part of that dialog must include what that strategy means for people in the field. Secondly, if you are a CEO, entrepreneur or an investor I think the framework can save you money and redirect how you spend that money. The book has four parts. Part one outlines the basic idea and framework in the book and provides examples of what happens if you don't think these things through. Part two of the book is Linking Strategy and Sales. This part of the book focuses on the core elements of each side of linking strategies and sales. In this section there is a chapter that looks at the foundational prerequisite which is the presence of coherent strategies. Many companies confuse strategy with their value, mission and purpose and those are all important things but very different. Another chapter in the book is about communicating strategy which is a very, very big issue because companies are typically very bad at this. The last chapter of section one provides a step by step process for thinking about how to identify what I call the idea of core customers for your business. From there I take you into a chapter about hiring, development and organizing sales people. The average American company has a turnover in sales somewhere between 5% and 30% annually. That means that every four years or so the average American company has to replace its sales force. So hiring is a very important issue. The next chapter is about sales compensation and incentives. You must think about the appropriate compensation system as a necessary but not sufficient cause of getting the behavior that you want. The final chapter in that portion of the book looks at a key the dimension of sales performance do's which in my experience is probably the most underutilized lever for effecting behavior in most companies. The final portion of the book is called closing which is about making connections. The connections I am talking about in those final two chapters are of two sorts. One is developing sales managers that can actually manage. The other is about the cross functional connections that require for effective selling. NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 06:00 The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (0:37) I am currently a professor at Harvard Business School. I was a professor at Harvard for 11 years before leaving to run a business for 12 years, sold the business and returned to Harvard about five years ago. My academic research always focused on go-to market elements including channels and sales management but when I left Harvard and ran a business for 12 years I had to meet payroll and sales. After getting lucky in business and returning to Harvard I taught strategy for a few years.
Introduction In this episode Jason Kelly shares all the insights on his book, The 3% Signal, where he reveals a revolutionary investing strategy that will change your life. In his book Kelly takes the stress out of investing by providing a simple formula that can be added to any type of financial account in order to help novice investors level the playing field. The goal of the book is to help you ensure a secure retirement plan, react intelligently to price changes, learn how to buy low and sell high, and understand the basic language that is utilized in the investing industry. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs that are interested in increasing their personal wealth and are looking for a simple beginners guide into the world of financial investments. The Book's Unique Quality (5:34) It's not a book that is trying to show you how to be smarter than everybody else. This system is based on history, based on a simple timeframe and it's something somebody can manage with just 15 minutes of effort per quarter using only prices alone. The Best Way To Engage (7:22) Reading the book front to back is the best way to go. The Reader's Takeaway (21:13) It's that prices are all that matter. Ideas count for nothing and opinions are distractions. The only thing that matters is the price of an investment whether it's below a level indicating a good time to buy or above a level indicating a good time to sell. We can know that level and this is a system that tells us. A Deep Dive Into The Book (9:23) The first chapter is called Why Markets Baffle Us and this is where I introduce a concept that comes throughout the book called Zero Validity Environment. This chapter looks at why it's so hard for us to get financial markets right. At the end of each chapter in the book I include an executive summary to review the key parts of the chapter the reader should obtain. The next chapter is called Harnessing Fluctuation. Flat lines are not conducive to profit, we need rises and we need falls, and we need to use them intelligently. If we can't predict them what can we do instead? All we want from a growth fund in our account is 3% per quarter and that's what this chapter lays out. Chapter three is titled Setting A Performance Goal and this shows the background on why I go with 3%. The reason it turns out to be a sweet spot is that annually it turns into 12.6% per year which is 26% more than the stock markets average 10% per year over the last 90 years or so. Chapter four is titled What Investments to Use and this is where you find out why small companies are best for the growth side. This chapter also looks at why bonds are best to use for safety. Chapter five is Managing Money in the Plan and this goes over some brass tacks of how to handle regular contributions to your funds. Chapter six is called The Plan in Action and this looks at more brass tacks things such as what time of account you have, what types of funds are in there, and how to find the right ones. The last chapter is called The Life of the Plan and this is where it all comes together in a look at three investors. These three investors are fictional people working at a fictional company but it's a real life scenario that takes all three of them with identical incomes and 401k plans through a 50 quarter time period (12 and ½ years). NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 09:23 The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (0:56) I started out writing for IBM at the Silicon Valley laboratory in San Jose California right out of college. I learned there to write about complex topics and I had a great editor there who really focused on surprising readers. Four years after working there I finally had enough income after writing books on my own about the stock market to leave IBM and become a fulltime freelance writer. So for the past two decades I have been writing about the stock market. I moved to Japan 13 years ago after being here on a book tour and falling in love with the place. The inspiration was noticing friends and family that had been struggling with the stock market for years. Over the years for writing for people and helping them with their investments I came to realize that almost everything in the stock market is geared against the individual investor. This is hard for professional investors to get right much less the part-time investor. I wanted to give people a system that does work that doesn't require any input from the media, beats the market in almost all pros over time, and is simple enough that anybody can do it. It's the product of two decades of research and is the best practice I've been able to come up with.
In this episode Ron Friedman shares his book, The Best Place to Work, where he offers game-changing advice for working smarter and turning any organization into an extraordinary workplace. In his book, Friedman explains how to effectively diffuse a workplace argument, elevate your thinking, and reach smarter decisions. The goal of the book is to provide you with scientifically-proven techniques to help you promote smarter thinking, greater innovation, and stronger performance. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs or business executives who are looking to turn an average, low performing work atmosphere into an effective and extraordinary environment. The Book's Unique Quality (4:35) I recognize what it's like to be an entrepreneur because I'm an entrepreneur myself and I wanted to write a user's guide for someone who is busy. I realize entrepreneurs need action items and this book is really stocked with action items both for managers and for employees. The Best Way To Engage (6:23) Every chapter in the book is focused on a different aspect of the workplace. It's a variety of different topics and not one that you have to read in a linear fashion. The Reader's Takeaway (19:34) One of the takeaways is that psychological needs are at the heart of employee engagement. If you are looking to create an engaged workforce you need to provide people with psychologically fulfilling experiences. The second takeaway is that organizations are a lot more successful when they address rather than ignore the limits of both the mind and the body. The third key takeaway is that rather than encouraging employees to find work life balance, organizations can be a lot more successful by allowing employees to integrate the two aspects of their life in an active way. A Deep Dive Into The Book (7:39) This book is a journey of different topics of the psychology of the workplace and summarizing all of this in a short amount of time can be a little bit of a challenge. I am going to explain the top three gaps that I saw in the workplace. The first gap was how organizations hire. If you are looking to grow a business you are going to be during some hiring and regardless of how well you structure your workplace if you don't get the right people in your organization it won't be affective. One of the critical pieces of hiring is the in person interview. As it turns out there is plenty of research showing that these interviewers are not a very effective tool for predicting how good someone is going to be in a particular position. The reason is because we have all of these cognitive biases that prevent us from actually measuring someone's effectiveness for the role we are looking to fill. I talk in the book about research showing that we tend to favor good looking people because we assume that they are also competent. Another biased is tall people because tall people tend to be viewed as having greater leadership potential. Deep voice candidates are viewed as more trustworthy. All of these impressions affect not just the way that we view that candidate but also the questions that we ask as a result. I talk about all the biases and then I talk about ways that entrepreneurs can correct those biases. The second gap is how managers motivate. In the book I present a completely different frame for thinking about engagement in a section on what videogames teach us about creating an extraordinary workplace. If you think about your own experience playing videogames you get sucked in doing a whole host of behaviors that you would normally avoid. What's fascinating about videogames is we spend so much of our personal time doing these activities that we aren't getting paid for. I think the reason we find these games as enjoyable as we do is because they deliver the very experiences that we seek in our workplace. For examples we have a clear set of goals and we get recognized and rewarded for our work. The key takeaway here is that engagement is not about the actual job; it's about the conditions that we build around it. The third gap that I wanted to highlight is the gap in workplace design. Within the book I survey all the research on office design and the psychology of how our minds react differently to different environments and what I argue is that there is a connection between space and innovation. What I mean by that is where we are affects the way we think. There is research that I cover in the book looking at how the ceiling height of a room affects our ability to think abstractly. The rooms' layout communicates the type of interaction that is expected. I discuss all the ways that companies can leverage a lot of these insights to deliver a better working environment.
Introduction (00:34) I'm known as a motivator, my background is in social psychology and the way people think, act, and behave has fascinated me for years. I would describe myself as the reluctant entrepreneur of the accidental entrepreneur. I actually lost my job many years ago due to ill health and wasn't able to work for three years. When I felt well enough to get back in the workplace no one would actually hire me because I couldn't pass a medical. So what I did 24 years ago was I hired myself and I've been writing books and speaking to all kinds of audiences every since. The Book's Unique Quality (04:32) I think one of the things is that I don't take myself too seriously. I cut to the chase and I use 5 words instead of 50. People can grasp these ideas quickly and use them immediately. The Best Way To Engage (05:25 I have these SUMO principles and the reader could dip into any of these principles that they need or they could read it front to back. The Reader's Takeaway (17:25) Take responsibility and move on. A Deep Dive Into The Book (06:22) I'm going to use the metaphor the SUMO house, the foundation of the house is E+R=O. This formula is helping the reader to understand that events (E) happens to all of us but it's how we respond (R) to those events that's going to influence our outcome (O). I think in life we all face challenges and we face set backs and disappointments, sometimes we experience successes, but even so it is never just the event it's the way we respond that influences the outcome. So the whole essence of SUMO is two people, two businesses, two communities, two families can have the same event but they can end up with a different outcome. Why? Because of the R factor – how we respond. Then I take you on a tour of the SUMO house and one of the main rooms in the house is called "Change Your T-Shirt." This is all about imagining that what you believe about yourself was in a word or a phrase and on your t-shirt, what would your message be? A second principle is developing "fruity thinking" and what I'm talking about is we talk about fruit being good for the body and I want to talk about fruit being good for the mind. And it's all based upon this question, "Besides God, if you believe in God, who is the most important person you are ever going to talk to?" And the answer yourself. In this whole principle I really unpack and explore the detail in the crucial conversations we have with ourselves everyday inside our own minds and how sometimes this thinking isn't fruity it's faulty. And that is not a winning way of thinking for any successful entrepreneur. So I reveal what those four types of faulty thinking are and then I give the reader some strategies of how they can shut up some of those faulty thinkings and move on to some fruity thinking. To feel mad, bad, or sad, it's legitimate and it's ok for us to experience those feelings. I give the reader permission to recognize that sometimes we are going to have a tough time but the other point to make clear is that "this too will pass." It's a season, not a life sentence. Hippo time is ok but it's temporary. A third principle is that hippo time is ok. What are hippos doing most of the time? They wallow. And one of the things I want to suggest to my reader is this, sometimes when we get a setback we can't just immediately shut up and move on, we need some hippo time- we need to have a wallow. This is a really crucial point, it's ok to not always feel ok.
In this episode Mark Hatch shares his book, The Maker Movement Manifesto, where he describes remarkable technologies accessible today and shares stories of how ordinary people have created extraordinary products from those tools. In his book, Hatch explains and shows you how to create, innovate, and make a profit with nothing more than your own creativity, hard work, and a desire to make some change. The goal of this book is to help entrepreneurs take part in a new age of manufacturing tools which were once impossible to afford. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are very creative and innovative, but need an all-in-one resource for manufacturing new product ideas on a minimal budget. The Book's Unique Quality (2:57) Everything I thought I knew about innovation in launching a hardware company has fundamentally changed in the last decade. I had not seen anybody writing about the impact that it was going to have on the startup world. There is this confluence of trends that have come together in the last decade that nobody had really wrapped together in a single volume. So I felt that somebody needed to write it and given my position in the industry it made sense for me to do it. The Best Way To Engage (4:08) Each of the chapter pretty much stands on its own. It is a fairly easy read in that I do a lot of stories to back up the reality that is occurring. There is nothing like giving examples that have already happened to convince the reader. The Reader's Takeaway (12:47) You no longer have to be a professional to change the world. A Deep Dive Into The Book (4:58) I start with my first day at a TechShop. It was very early on, we had only been open for a year when I ran into Jim Newton the founder of TechShop. Jim convinced me to come by and take a look at the place and given my background I was intrigued with this new retail platform that he had developed. I had talked to three entrepreneurs back to back and each of them had said they had saved 98% of their development cost and each are now worth millions. At the end of that day I realized I was standing in the future and because of the potential economic impact this would have in unleashing the creativity of the creative class there needed to be one of these in every single city on the planet. As I moved through my experience over the first three years I realized that this was having an impact everywhere. Then I also realized there was a gap on the current availability of books and discussion about the movement itself. I set about to capture the gestalt of the movement itself. So I came up with nine principals that basically makeup the manifesto itself. The first principle is to make. Humans were designed to make, we have that opposable thumb and it's ingrained in who we are. Just making things is a fundamental activity that humans get enjoyment out of. One of the things that makes making whole is the ability to share it and that's the second principle. Often there is a giving component which gives meaning to these projects that are completely different than what you get when you buy something off the shelf. There is a play principle as well. A lot of the best projects turn in to the best projects because somebody comes at the project from a different angle. And then there are some really important things around participation that I am seeing emerge in a collaborative community. It is a lot more fun and affective to work in a space that has a lot of other people working away on their projects rather than doing it in your garage. The last two principles are support and change. Support is the call to action and why I call it a manifesto is that this platform is creating an environment where we can do innovation and change the world at price points that we've never seen before. And the last principle is to change. When you embrace this activity making it will change you in positive ways and its import to embrace that and encourage other people to change as well. The reason we call this a manifesto and movement is because we are anticipating and expecting a significant portion of the population to change their consumer behavior, behavior around gift giving and attitudes around trade skills. The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (0:39) I am a former Green Beret, quite a while ago, but it feeds a little bit into the book. I was trained on how to participate and/or run a revolution. From there I did a startup and went back to school. I worked for about eight years at Avery Dennison manufacturing company and a year at Kinkos. All of this was before I began at TechShop as the CEO and Co-Founder.
Introduction In this episode Jez Humble takes a deep dive into his book, Lean Enterprise where he uncovers how high performing organizations are able to innovate at scale. In his book Humble sifts through case studies, principles, and patterns of very successful well-known companies providing you with an action guide to help you rethink how to run your business. The goal of the book is to teach you what it takes to implement the methodologies he presents, manage large-scale projects, create a non-traditional management style, and accelerate innovation. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who run a well-established organization that is having trouble adapting to changing market conditions and need a fast, innovative approach to scaling up. The Book's Unique Quality (3:28) I don't think anyone has written a book that talk about how to transform enterprises that need to be able to win creating digital products in this environment where you have short product cycles. There are books about how to change culture, there are books about leadership, but there is no book that really ties all these things together in the context of building digital products for large enterprises. The Best Way To Engage (4:15) This book is very dense and the first two chapters need to be read straight through. The rest of the book you can dip in and out where needed. The Reader's Takeaway (15:37) For me the real epiphany of the book is this idea of taking a scientific method and adopting it for product development and for process improvement. A Deep Dive Into The Book (5:19) We start off by talking about the fact that lean enterprise is the result of culture. Even though the book is about how to work in a domain of technology the point of technology is really to enable humans to collaborate more effectively and more rapidly. In an enterprise context it becomes really difficult because you got a large number of people with a wide variety of backgrounds who all have to work together in order to achieve a common purpose. And the question is how do we do that rapidly at scale? The answer to that comes from military doctrine. The book is primarily about how you create alignment at scale, how you enable everyone in the organization to make the best decision from the organizational point of view despite their limited knowledge. The second chapter dives into the product cycle and the product development cycle and there are a number of well named models for the enterprise portfolio. This is increasingly important in the modern world where product development cycles are so short. Part two of the book describes how to work in the explore domain where exploring a number of ideas knowing that most of them won't be successful. This explores how to adopt the lean startup methodology in an enterprise context. Part three of the book describes how to work in the domain where you have validated products and you need to actually exploit it and develop it at scale. The key part of exploiting is actually around driving down cost, improving quality, and improving value to customers and that demands a completely different approach. For that we need to pursue process improvement which means enabling the people doing the work to actually try out new ideas to experiment new ideas in terms of how to increase quality. There is a piece on engineering practices because engineering practices are poorly understood. Most people are going into management in large companies not necessarily to really understanding how to work in the digital domain and how to build products where software is a competitive advantage. And so we spend a bunch of time discussing how to do that and how to take an experimental approach through product development. The last part of the book is about how to create a culture of innovation. As an enterprise you can't afford to hire the top of market people who have exactly the skills and behaviors that you want. You have to invest in developing your people so there is a whole section on growing a culture of innovation rather than taking shortcuts. We talk about financial management and how you can do budgeting, how to do IT in a way that creates a competitive advantage rather than being a cost center, and how to get started using a case study from the UK government digital service. NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 05:19 The Credibility/Inspiration Of The Author (0:32) I am a Vice President at Chef, a lecturer at UC Berkeley, and before Lean Enterprise I wrote Continuous Delivery. My background is in software engineering and I've worked in multiple industries, in multiple companies, helping organizations get better at delivering high quality valuable software products.


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Confidence is high, says Llewellyn
Chris Llewellyn believes confidence in the Under-21s camp is high as they go in search of their third league win on-the-bounce against Crystal Palace tonight (7pm).
The young Swans host the Eagles at the Liberty in good form after recording victories over Brighton and Millwall in their previous two fixtures.
Llewellyn's side currently sit in fourth position in the Professional Development League Two (South) table, but a victory over tonight's opponents could see them climb up to second place.
And against another of the division's in-form teams, who sit one place above the Swans in third, the U21s coach is confident his side can achieve another positive result.
"Confidence is high - we've won four out of the last five games," said the U21s coach. "The game we lost to QPR was probably the best we've played all season, but we ended up losing it.
"The way our boys have been playing and the way that they have been taking things on board, we are confident.
"Confidence is a massive thing in football and we are playing with it at the moment.
"The boys are looking forward to playing at the Liberty Stadium in front of a hopefully decent crowd, and we are looking to put on another decent display.
"It will be a tough game against Crystal Palace. They have won their last few games too, so it will be a match between the two in-form teams in the division."
And for the young Swans, it is looking good at both ends of the pitch. Over their last two fixtures, they have managed to score four goals whilst keeping two clean sheets.
"We've been working all year on making sure we are tight at the back," added Llewellyn. "Our play throughout the season has deserved more goals, especially in recent games.
"Looking at the table, there are three games left. If we win the three, we could finish second.
"The boys have set themselves that target, so that's what we will try and aim for.
"Hopefully the performance tonight will see us get another win."
For supporters wishing to come and cheer on Llewellyn's side on Monday night, tickets will be available for purchase on-the-gate.
Adult tickets are priced at £3, with four FREE children tickets available for every adult ticket purchased, while tickets for Under-16s and Over-65s will cost just £1.

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Xbox Game Pass For January Adds Just Cause 3, Absolver, Life Is Strange 2
Posted on January 3, 2019, 3:00 am By Billy D
Microsoft rolled out the January line-up for the Xbox Game Pass to bring in the new year. The month starts with the continuation of the end-of-the-year availability of Dontnod Entertainment's Life Is Strange. At the end December, 2018, Microsoft added the complete first season of Life Is Strange, along with Life Is Strange: Before The Storm before adding the first part of Life Is Strange 2 ahead of the release of the second episode.
Take note that Life Is Strange 2: Episode 1 is a full-on woke Leftist wet dream. It's rife with anti-white propaganda, anti-Trump propaganda, and anti-Conservative propaganda. The game is so "woke" that it ended up making it on the 2018 Video Game Woke Awards.
Thankfully, Microsoft's line-up of games on the Xbox Game Pass isn't limited to just Leftist marketing.
There's also ARK: Survival Evolved, which joins Life Is Strange 2. It's an okay game, but if you like games where you build and craft stuff, fight dinosaurs, use high-tech weapons, and ride dinosaurs, it's not a terrible title.
On the opposite end of the spectrum there's Farming Simulator 17, for people who want something smaller and more compact as an experience. I don't know why you would want to play it on the Xbox One, though, since you get all the sweet juicy mods on the PC version.
On January 7th the martial arts multiplayer game, Absolver. The game had a rather silent launch and picked up a small but dedicated audience. The game doesn't dive into any of the ridiculous propaganda or politics that have plagued other games, and instead just gives gamers a skill-based gameplay experience where you focus on leveling up your character's martial arts style and giving you the ability to learn new styles from other schools.
On January 10th there's the second-worse Just Cause game ever made, Just Cause 3. And that's followed by Aftercharge, which is another smaller game that slipped under the radar. It's a PvP multiplayer game with asymmetric mechanics where one team is invisible and the other team is invincible. The invisible team must destroy six cylinders while the invincible team has to protect the cylinders.
As usual, you'll probably want to avoid throwing money at an all-digital service if you value the medium of physical game sales.
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Michigan State vs Indiana Pick, Preview & Betting Odds For Sunday, January 22nd
Check out our free Michigan State vs Indiana pick and preview for this NCAA Basketball game in Bloomington. See who we like to win and cover the spread in this College Basketball matchup.
Michigan State vs Indiana Pick & Preview: Sunday, January 22nd Betting Odds
Spartans vs Hoosiers Matchup at a Glance
Teams: Michigan State Spartans at Indiana Hoosiers
Where: Bloomington at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall
Date: Sunday, January 22nd
Betting Odds: Michigan State +4, MST +153 | IND -194 O/U 138.0
Spartans Preview:
Michigan State will take the floor against the Hoosiers with an overall record of 13-6. On the road, the Spartans will be playing their 6th game of the season, having gone 3-3. So far, the Spartans have been the underdog 6 times, going 2-4 straight up. Heading into today's contest, they are the +4 underdogs on the spread.
Michigan State's leading scorer this season is Tyson Walker, who is averaging 14.63 points per contest. So far, Walker has accounted for 21.0% of the team's scoring. In addition, he is contributing 2.47 rebounds per game and 2.58 assists. Joey Hauser is the second leading scorer for the Spartans, averaging 13.37 points per game. Between him and Hauser, they are accounting for 40.2% of the team's scoring.
Michigan State comes into their matchup vs Indiana looking to improve their offensive numbers, as they are just 168th in college basketball at 72.1 points per game. One bright spot for them has been their ability to knock down 3-point shots, as they have connected at a rate of 37.8%. So far, 33.37% of the Spartans' shots have been from beyond the arc. When looking at the team's pace of play, they are currently a below average unit at 66.4 possessions per game.
Hoosiers Preview:
The Indiana will take the floor in today's game in the middle of a 2 game win streak and have an overall record of 12-6. Currently, the Hoosiers have been the home team 11 times, sitting with a record of 9-2. The Hoosiers' are sitting with a betting line that is -4 points in their favor. For the season, Indiana has been favored to win in 13 games, sitting with a mark of 11-2.
Trayce Jackson-Davis comes into today's game as the Hoosiers' leading scorer at 18.6 points per contest. Not only has Jackson-Davis been key to the team's scoring efforts, but he is Indiana's top rebounder at 9.8 boards per contest. Behind Jackson-Davis, the team has benefited from the strong play of Jalen Hood-Schifino, who is second on the team in scoring at 13.2 points per game. Overall, he has hit 44.9% of his shots and is adding 4.33 boards per game.
Offensive production has been hard to come by for Indiana this season, as they are currently ranked 184th in college basketball at 71.5 points per game. A major reason for low scoring totals is the fact that they have played at a below average pace, and have struggled to knock down outside shots. As a team, the Hoosiers' 3-point shooting percentage sits at just 33.9%, placing them 258th in the NCAA.
Free Spread Prediction: Michigan State Spartans +4
After running our analysis on this game, we've identified the best side to take on the spread. Currently, the oddsmakers have Indiana as the favorites with a line coming in at -4. However, based on how these team's matchup, we see this number being too high and like the Michigan State Spartans to cover. Both team's have knocked down the 3-point shot at a rate similar to the NCAA average this season with Indiana at 6.12 made 3's per game compared to Michigan State at 7.18. Look for Michigan State to put together a strong enough defensive effort to cover the spread vs the Hoosiers.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Akka.Actor;
using Akka.Streams;
using Akka.Streams.Supervision;
using HeartBeatAgent.Facts;
using HeartBeatAgent.Ping;
using HeartBeatAgent.Rest;
using HeartBeatAgent.scheduler;

namespace HeartBeatAgent
{
    public class HaertBeatAgentService
    {
        private ActorSystem HeartBeatAgent;
        public void Start()
        {
            var appSettings = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings;
            var pingHost = appSettings["ping.host"];
            var pingUri = appSettings["ping.uri"];
            var lapse = Convert.ToInt32(appSettings.Get("lapse"));
            var node = appSettings.Get("node");
            var env = appSettings.Get("environment");
            var enginequeue = appSettings.Get("QueueName");

            var restHandler = new RestHandler();

            var scheduler = new PingScheduler(
                new PingDefault(new PingEnv(pingHost, "/test", pingUri, env, node, lapse, "ENGINE"), restHandler),
                new FactRepository(restHandler, enginequeue)
            );

            HeartBeatAgent = ActorSystem.Create("HeartBeatAgent");
            var materializer = HeartBeatAgent.Materializer(ActorMaterializerSettings.Create(HeartBeatAgent).WithSupervisionStrategy(Deciders.RestartingDecider));
            scheduler.StartScheduler(lapse, materializer);
        }

        public async void Stop()
        {
            await HeartBeatAgent.Terminate();
        }
    }
}

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