I’ve spent a lot of time finding some of the best free material online. Some of these items I’ve found digging through Google and others I’ve received because I signed up at someone’s blog. Most of the authors of those items encourage the sharing of their material, but if you like anything below please sign up to the authors blog or website – I know they’d really appreciate it. If you’re the author and I’m sharing your material inappropriately, please let me know immediately. All material is being shared in good faith of all copyrights.
Atul Gawande
The Checklist – A 2007 article from The New Yorker highlighting the amazing impact of simple checklists for routine procedures
Bernadette Jiwa @ thestoryoftelling.com
Closing the Gap Between Dreaming and Doing – 20 questions to ask yourself before launching an idea.
Chris Guillebeau @ chrisguillebeau.com
279 Days to Overnight Success – An unconventional journey to full-time writing.
Corbett Barr @ thinktraffic.net
18 Months, 2 Blogs, Six Figures – How Corbett Barr built a six-figure online business in a year-and-a-half.
Dale Carnegie
Principles from the book How to Win Friends and Influence People
Daniel Pink @ danpink.com
FLIP – 16 counter intuitive principles dealing with motivation, innovation, and leadership.
Dave Navarro @ rockyourday.com
More Time Now – A Pretty Simple Way To Invest One Hour A Week To Free Up 1000 Hours a Year
How to State Making Real Money With Your Own Products in 3 Days
7 Steps to Networking Your Way to A-Listers Fast
Harvard Business Review
Beware The Busy Manager – Being constantly busy is more an indicator of poor leadership than effective management.
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror – Fundamental questions for self-evaluation.
Mark Sanborn @ marksanborn.com
Why Leaders Fail – Six warnings of a failing leader. Shift in focus, poor communication, risk aversion, ethics slip, poor self-management, and lost love.
Leverage Your Learning – How to maximize information gained from a conference.
Books I Recommend – List of books recommended by Sanborn.
7 Reasons Executive Speakers Flop – Disregard for time, unclear purpose, inadequate preparation, failure to capture attention, pomposity, boredom, and false endings.
A Worksheet for Those Who DARE to Lead – Desire, Ability, Resources, Encouragement. A number of questions asked under these subheadings to help develop or discuss a persons desire to lead.
Netflix
Culture of Freedom and Responsibility – These 128 power point slides became amazingly famous as it represented for the first time a business that trusted it’s employees to do the right thing in a creative environment and actually put it into words.
Richie Norton @ richienorton.com
Resumes Are Dead – A book by a personal friend on pursuing your dreams. “This is a call to action, a call to find both money and meaning in your life in order to gain the freedom to live where and how you really want to live, today.”
Seth Godin @ sethgodin.com
Knock Knock – A short take on how to use the new online marketing tools to make any website work more effectively.
Who’s There – How building a blog asset can have a spectacular impact on you, your career, your organization and your ideas.
Srinivas Rao @ blogcastfm.com
The Extraordinary Achiver’s Manifesto – A guide to abandoning the pursuit of mediocrity.
How to Repurpose Content For Fame & Fortune – Strategies for people who have existing bodies of work in the form of a blog.