Reinventing Jobs: A 4-Step Approach for Applying Automation to Work - The intent of automation should not be eliminating jobs, but achieving the optimum synergy of humans and automation. - Return on Invested Performance is a critical metric for getting the best bang for your buck when choosing systems to automate - Repetitiveness, human interaction, and cognitive load impact if automation is worthwhile

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Reinventing Jobs: Applying Automation in the Workplace (Ravin Jesuthasan)

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days (Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz) - Sprints help you fast forward to the future and see customers react sooner - The longer you wait, it becomes increasingly harder to change products - Your product is never “ready” - but a sprint-mindset helps you make time-based releases (instead of feature-based).

Sprint (Jake Knapp)

- To get into the habit zone, your product needs to be used frequently and provide great utility - The time or money investment users make in services greatly impacts how hooked they are - Changing someone’s motivation is challenging - scarcity and a sense of progress make a big difference

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Nir Eyal)

The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy that Will Lead to the Career You Love (Ken Coleman) - Being intentional about who you surround yourself with is the key to a fulfilling future - Every career stepping stone matters.  It could become a long-term career cornerstone - You don’t summit Mt. Everest all at once - success is a step-by-step process   Let us know what books you want to hear next on the survey at MotivationMinute.com!

The Proximity Principle (Ken Coleman)

Gorilla Mindset: How to Dominate and Unleash the Animal Inside You (Mike Cernovich) - To get more out of life, you must get more out of yourself. - He who controls how something is framed controls the debate. - Quick mental checklists can be powerful tools for focusing your attention   Keep the great book ideas coming to the survey at MotivationMinute.com

Gorilla Mindset (Mike Cernovich)

The Simplicity Cycle: The Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse (Dan Ward) - We tend to be drawn towards complexity, when deep down we yearn for simplicity - Simplicity is a combination of complexity (features) and “goodness” (functionality) - True productivity is maximizing the value of existing features   Andrew Smith: Founder of ProRustics Home & Furnishings https://www.facebook.com/prorustics/ Instagram - @ProRustics 

The Simplicity Cycle (with Andrew Smith)

Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service (Ken Blanchard) - Satisfied customers aren’t enough.  To thrive your business needs raving fans. - Customers count on your consistency.  After you disappoint them once it’s difficult to rebuild trust. - Focus on improving just 1%.  Tackle less of the problem, but be consistent with that “less”.   Send us books you want to hear featured via our survey at MotivationMinute.com!

Raving Fans (Ken Blanchard)

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb) - Antifragile systems improve in the face of chaos - Efficient systems are at peak capacity and on the verge of collapse - The barbell strategy (maximizing opposite extremes and avoiding the middle) helps you build an antifragile life   Guest: Mary Miller, Nuclear Engineer and Motivation Minute Listener

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder (with Mary Miller)

Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win (Jocko Willink and Leif Babin) - Extreme Ownership is taking full responsibility for yourself. - Learn to lead both down and up the chain.  If you’re boss doesn’t get it, blame yourself first. - The hardest part of taking responsibility is the hit to your ego.  But this pulls your team together.   Keep the book ideas coming!  Send them into our survey at MotivationMinute.com

Extreme Ownership (Jocko Willink and Leif Babin)

The Greatest Salesman in the World (Og Mandino) - True wealth is of the heart, not the purse - Approach each day, each situation, and each person with genuine love in your heart - Learn to see obstacles as just detours.  Persisting is the key to success.   Guest: Japheth Mast, Founder of Japheth Mast Photo Website: JaphethMastPhoto.com Blog: JaphethMast.com Instagram: @japhethmast

The Greatest Salesman in the World (with Japheth Mast)

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Roger Fisher and William Ury) - Never cave to pressure.  Stick to your standards and persist to find a win-win. - Having a solid BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) makes you a stronger negotiator - Become an empathetic negotiator by listening more and putting yourself in other people’s shoes   We love your book ideas!  Share book with us that you’d like to hear at MotivationMinute.com

Getting to Yes (Roger Fisher and William Ury)

The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli) - To understand the people, one needs to be a prince - to understand princes, one needs to be of the people - Success isn’t a formula.  Adapt your strategy based on the situation around you - Listen to people who know what they’re talking about, who genuinely want to help you   Guest: Niels van den Kieboom, International Business Student Website: BroGecko.com Instagram: @brogeckoshop

The Prince (with Niels van den Kieboom)

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Change Our Lives (Tim Harford) - The random nature of messiness can lead to our greatest inspiration - Improvisation is the ultimate intersection of structure and spontaneity - Adding strategic elements of risk surprisingly can boost safety   We love hearing your book ideas on our survey - MotivationMinute.com

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Change Our Lives (Tim Harford)

Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks that can Change Your Life and Career (David Burkus) - Don’t fixate on building a network. Instead, learn to better navigate and leverage your current network - Who you know and your conversations with them dramatically impact how you think - Weak ties (friends you don’t talk with as often) have more opportunities and enlarge your perspective more than strong ties. We’d love to hear your book ideas in our survey at MotivationMinute.com

Friend of a Friend (David Burkus)

Think And Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) - Being intentional about how you think is a critical key to success - Harness the power of autosuggestion to make your goal part of who you are - Envision yourself with the money (or desired thing) ahead of time, especially the emotions and experience you will have with it   Guest: David Troyer Instagram: @davidalantroyer

Think And Grow Rich (with David Troyer)

Two aspiring entrepreneurs discuss business ideas and practical personal development tips. Show hosts: Spencer Harro (Baltimore, MD), a recent electrical engineering grad. Jeriah Miller (Libby, MT), a self-taught entrepreneur and filmmaker.

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