Books I’m Reading

Dec 18th, 2011

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Here are the list of books I’ve read: 

1. Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
2. The Google Story; David A. Vise & Mark Malseed
3. Founders at Work; Jessica Livingstone
4. You’ve got to Read This Book; Jack Canfield & Gay Hendricks
5. Trump 101: The Way to Success; Donald Trump & Meredith Mclver
6. The Starbucks Experience; Joseph A. Michelli
7. The One Minute Manager; Ken Blanchard & Spencer Johson
8. The One Minute Entrepreneur; Blanchard, Hutsons & Willis
9. ReWork; Jason Fried & David Heinemeier
10. Direct From Dell; Michael Dell
11. The E-Myth Revisited; Michael E. Gerber
12. Delivering Happiness; Tony Hsieh
13. Success Stories of Billionairse
14. The Success Principles; Jack Canfield
15. The Luck Factor; Richard Wiseman
16. Power Sleep; Dr. James B. Maas
17. How to Feel Confident; Leil Lowndes
18. Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway; Susan Jeffers
19. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind; Joseph Murphy PhD
20. How They Started Series; Crimson
21. The Knowledge Creating Company; Nonaka & Takeuchi
22. Working Knowledge; Davenport & Prusak
23. Screw it Lets Do it; Richard Branson

Books I’m Reading

1. Raving Fans!; Blanchard & Bowles
2. Business Stripped Bare; Richard Branson
3. The E-Myth Contractor; Michael E. Gerber

Books Bought, Yet to Read

1. The Sealed Nectar; Al-Raheequl Maktum
2. The Ideal Muslim; Muhammad Al-Hashimi
3. The Ideal Muslimah; Muhammad Al-Hashimi
4. Mukmin Profesional; Pahrol Juoi
5. How to Talk to Anyone; Leil Lowndes
6. The Undercover Economist; Tim Harford
7. Mavericks at Work; Taylor & Labarre
8. The 360 Degree Leader; John C. Maxwell
9. You Call the Shots; Cameron Johnson
10. The Four Hour Work Week; Timothy Ferriss
11. The E-Myth Enterprise; Michael E. Gerber
12. The Martha Rules; Martha Stewart
13. Bloomberg by Bloomberg; Michael Bloomberg
14. Commercial Real Estate Investing; David Lindahl
15. Life is an Open Secret: You, Me and We; Zabrina A. Bakar
16. Life is an Open Secret: Think About it; Zabrina A. Bakar
17. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey
18. How to Win Friends and Influence People; Dale Carnegie
19. 59 Seconds; Richard Wiseman
20. Quirkology; Richard Wiseman
21. The Ming Gym: Relationship
22. Think Like a Champion; Donald Trump
23. Why We Want You to be Rich; Trump & Kiyosaki
24. Big Bucks!; Blanchard & Bowles
25. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus; John Gray
26. Gung Ho!; Blanchard & Bowles
27. High Five!; Blanchard & Bowles
28. The Leadership Pill; Blanchard & Muchnick
29. The Automatic Millionaire; David Bach
30. How to Make Millions With Your Idea; Dan S. Kennedy 

Meetings are Toxic! Why? Read this!

Mar 29th, 2011

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This entry was taken from a book titled “Rework” wrote by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson from 37Signals. Well I believe none of us likes meeting. And yet we still organise and attend them. Why? I’m not quite sure the answer to this question. What I’m sure is the list below will make you nodding your head ;-). So here’s why meetings are toxic:

1. They’re usually about words and abstract concept, not real things.

2. They usually convey an abysmally small amount of information.

3. They drift off-subject easier than a Chicago cab in a snowstorm.

4. They require thorough preparation that most people don’t have time for.

5. They frequently have agendas so vague that nobody is really sure of the goal. 

6. They often include at least one moron who inevitably gets his turn to waste everyone’s time with nonsense. 

7. Meetings procreate. One meeting leads to another meeting leads to another…

Do you agree with any of the points? I’m sure you’ll do. That’s it for now.. Unfortunately I have to go to a meeting in 10 minutes… What a perfect time to write this post.. Haha.. 

Books I’m Reading: Delivering Happiness

Jan 28th, 2011

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I just finished reading a book written by Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos.com Inc. Zappos.com is the world’s largest online shoe retailer. He and his fellow zappos members help build the company from zero sales to $1 Billion USD gross merchandise sales annually in just incredibly within 10 years! and in July 2009, Amazon bought Zappos for staggering $1.2 Billion USD. The best thing when I’m reading this book is that, all the ideas and philosophy of creating a company and businesses shared by Tony in this book is inline with my belief on what a company should be. Tony has managed to create a company that have a great relationship with their employees, customers and also vendors. The idea of focusing on delivering happiness to the world is very sincere. That, I believe what a company should become. A company that cares for others. Not taking advantage of people. In this book Tony shares the lessons he learn in business and life. He also showed and proved to the world a company can care for the people and make money at the same time. Apart from that, this book is a  classic example to how we can gain success as long as we keep on trying and never give up. I strongly recommend people read this book. You will enjoy reading it especially with a funny style of writing by Tony and you will absolutely learn a lot from this book.

And one more thing, unlike may other authors who used ghost writer to help them write their books, this book has been written by Tony himself. That really brings the connection between the reader and Tony himself. 

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose

by Tony Hsieh

Books I’m Reading: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Dec 31st, 2010

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I’ve started reading this book 3 weeks ago. As usual it will take me sometime to finish any books I’m reading. Well I believe almost everybody who loves reading knows this book. It needs no explanation. As you can see from the book’s cover, this book has been sold over 15 Million copies. So it must be a good book. Otherwise people won’t buy it right? That’s the logic. It is indeed a good book or I must say a great book to read. I just finished reading the 1st habit. There are six more to go. Not sure when I’m going to finish it. But one thing I can tell that, it already brings me the goodness it keeps within it’s words. Worth to buy and it is certainly worth to spend your time reading it. Buy or borrow it and read it!

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen Covey