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Once again a very good book from PersonnalMBA ! Written by Laurence Gonzales, it explain how accident happens and why people live or die in survival situation. This is actually the two main parts of the book. This book use a lot of philosophy (mainly Stoicism and Taoism ), a lot of real examples and statistics studies. This is a very opening and inspiring book and, even if it's main public is people who wants to go to the wild or do dangerous thing, it's also very useful for "common" people or business. At each time of your life or your business, you will find yourself facing difficult situation : divorce, loosing your job, a big contract ... At this time, you should have a survivor mentality (or philosophy) to pass these events with the less problems ! Here, the survival's rules directly taken from the book : look, see, believe : accept the reality of the situation. Stay calm : use humor; use fear to focus. Think/Analyse/Plan : get organized; set up small, manage...

First, for my personnal MBA, i have now finished three more books : Making thing happen, explaining all project management. Cuting to the chase, 100 usefull tips to be more effective in jobs. Crucial Conversation, very interesting book explaining how to handle difficult problem with dialogue. For my eBusiness and testing blog www.goth-corsets.com , I'm adding slowly more content. I am also tweaking wordpress plugins and Meta description to have a clean content analysis by Google bot. By mystic of SEO, my page rank is getting worse in Yahoo and a lot better for Google. I'm also reading a 31 day challenge about blogs from probloggers.com and doing some articles for quittersonjob.fr

Difficult to maintain a blog when you have so many occupation :) What's happen during this two months ? Some trips in les Alpes (skiing) and in London (this city is fanstatic ... if you are rich). I have finished some books of my personnal mba : - the unwritten laws of business - the design of every day things (I am a big fan of it). - the four hour workweek I'm reading Making Things happen about project management which is also excelent. I'm very happy to have discovered personnal MBA and the recommended reading list. So far they are very good and i'm learning a lot. I have also read a french book named "Back-offices et marchés financier". The first part explains what is a back office and the second part explains the interest, problems and risks of back-office. This second part is mainly based on the exemple of Baring's case who was sunk by one trader. Written in 1997, he explains the importance of back offices to avoid financial crisis .... yes like the...

I have begin to read some books from the Personnal MBA . First was getting things done. An interesting method of every day work and life management. You can manage this method with Google notepad ! The best thing I have learned so far is to clean my mind of "open loop" and note everything. I have read the book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" which describe six common things in people psychologie. Like PersonnalMBA says : Knowing these natural psychological tendencies will help you in two ways: (1) you'll become more persuasive, and (2) you'll be able to identify when these tendencies are present, protecting you from being misled in the future. I am now reading "how to win friends & influence people" and my next books will be : The unwritten laws of business, the design of every day things and Making things happen. I am an addict :)