- The product approach to value investing
- The 3 characteristics of an ideal investment
- The five fundamentals of personal finance
- The two types of balance
- Start, stop, more, less
- The 4 types of activities
- Doing vs. achieving
- Needs and wants
- Be creative with the rules
- 3 signs you are in tactical hell
- What you enjoy
- What do you want?
- Freedom, success, or power
- Five strategic living questions
- The four types of improvement methods
- How we get into tactical hell
- Productive control vs. preventive control
- Skills and Benefits
- The 3 frames
- Finding areas of control
- Three questions for understanding your situation
- Darkness and light
- Decide how you’re not going to play
- Worrying vs. anticipating
- Understanding control
- Risk and reward
- Assume you’re going to fail
- 10 principles of fluidity
- You are not the hero!
- The problem with most plans
- Technology is only a tool
- Playing the game vs. playing games
- Four laws of influence
- Influence vs. manipulation
- Managing resistance
- Focusing on the in-between space
- Zero-based thinking
- Name your battles
- On being grounded
- The 3 principles of strategic living
- If you can gain something, do something
- If you can’t gain control, do nothing
- Seek the conditions first, then take direct action
- Preparing early
- Predicting the future
- The importance of intelligence
- What settings do you control?
- Having control vs. exercising control
- Control – an operational definition
- The 5 questions for taking action
- Is there a way to do x without doing y?
- Are you in tactical hell?
- Gradual vs. punctuated
- Avoiding the optimization fate
- Work on what you have
- Success is cumulative
- Focus vs. effort
- Finding your hara
- Minimize the cost of failure
- The problem with feedback loops
- Are you excited?
- Heaven and Ground
- Your yin and yang sides
- Declare war
- Contrary thinking exercise
- The cost of conservatism
- Market like a spider
- Eliminate risk, don’t embrace it
- Secure, then advance
- You can’t create opportunities
- The PrESS Technique – Protect, Entice, Seize, Strike
- Identifying imbalance
- Subduing yourself
- Yin-yang strategy
- Study the terrain
- The sale happens before the sale
- Ease the burden of your mind
- Move if there is advantage, stop if there is not
- Being useless
- Diversify first, concentrate second
- The 3 essential business skills
- Start a project
- How to know what you are good at
- What are you responsible for?
- Making things shareable
- When should I quit?
- The problem with trying to think ahead
- The 4 pillars of strength
- Goals vs. activities
- The best marketing is invisible
- The 3 measures of a strategic to-do list
- Some questions to think about when creating a compelling product
- What little problems do you solve?
- The five essential questions to coming up with a business idea
- Is it getting easier?
- The 3 types of people
- How do you know when you’re being strategic?
- Strategic vs. tactical
- The creator vs. the innovator
- How to learn to be successful
- Success is a skill
- The 5 advantages for business success
- Compelling = clear
- Features vs. benefits
- What’s your position aspiration?
- They don’t need to know what you think
- Do things that energize you
- You don’t need to stand out to make a connection
- How to create a compelling need
- Your job is not customer satisfaction!
- How can you get attention?
- The two mindsets of business
- Little control, little investment. Big control, big investment.
- The one thing
- Tolerated vs. welcome
- The 3 skills for the new economy
- How to make better connections
- Contribute to the network
- Read for insight
- Useful vs. helpful
- Learn on the ground, reflect in the tower
- Value always comes from the user
- Fail faster
- If you want to stand out…
- 12 tools of preparation
- Sharpen your tusks
- The 3 needs, or why running a business is so hard
- The essential library
- How to provide value online
- Which type of student are you?