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Good information.......2007-02-23
This book gives information in an easy-to-read format about issues none of us really want to discuss. It's very necessary to make the plans discussed in this book.
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Inspired by the true story of a flight with Sir Richard Branson, Millionaire Upgrade blows the lid off the accepted belief that successful entrepreneurs are a breed apart, possessing some special magic.
Through the combined wisdom of interviews with 50 self-made millionaire entrepreneurs, this book takes you on your own personal master class in success, as experienced through the eyes of Tom, a frustrated employee who is upgraded on a long haul flight, and finds himself sitting next to self made millionaire Michael. During the flight Michael shares the science and secrets behind his own success.
Better than any in-flight movie, Millionaire Upgrade gets you inside the minds of successful entrepreneurs and self-made millionaires giving you the inside track on how they think and act.
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"It took me a long time to learn this stuff—I wish I’d been on that plane 30 years ago!"
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"The principles of success apply equally whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, chief executive of a large plc or simply looking for inspiration for your own personal life. Here’s where you start, by reading this book."
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Allan Leighton - Chairman, Royal Mail
"If you want a toolkit to help you become a successful entrepreneur, read this book. Then put it into practice."
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Duncan Bannatyne - Bannatyne Leisure & Dragons Den
"Everything in business is a learning experience. I should know! I'd recommend all would-be entrepreneurs to read this book and be inspired to boldly set out on your own entrepreneurial journey. You won't regret it."
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Rachel Elnaugh – Red Letter Days and Dragons' Den
"It is refreshing to find a book that describes the key difference between the entrepreneur and the rest – attitude. So often in life a cigarette paper’s thickness separates success from failure and Richard has written a book that perfectly captures this and suggests a way of thinking that can transform the tin of dog food into a thoroughbred racehorse."
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Tim Smit - Eden Project
"Millionaire Upgrade captures the essence of what it takes to be successful in anything you choose to do. The rules of success are timeless and simply explained so you can apply them in your own business or personal life."
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BJ Cunningham - Founder of Death Cigarettes
"In Millionaire MBA, Richard decoded entrepreneurs and unpicked their millionaire mindset. With Millionaire Upgrade, he has put it all back together again through IBELIEVE and a compelling story. Very clever and a must read for any budding entrepreneur!"
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Rene Carayol - Leadership Guru
"It takes a certain mindset to succeed in creating your own business. This book spells out how you need to think and act to succeed – whether you are an entrepreneur or a professional manager. It’s a great read too."
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Matthew Barrett - Chairman, Barclays Bank
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One in a Million.......2006-10-30
I have read many of such motivational books with similar "Get-Rich" theme. However, none of them has impressed me as much as yours. Your easy style of writing and creative story board sequencing of the principles "I Believe" has certainly won my admiration. I too shared your purpose in spread this gospel of "entrepreneur mindset" and have reaped the harvest in Singapore. I'll certainly add your perspective into my presentation and promote your book in my seminars and workshops. To date, I have bought 10 copies and given them away to my staff and friends. I would be purchasing another 10 copies to be given away to my clients....all in the name of spreading the gospel of a millionaire mindset.
Once again, Richard, thumbs up and a sensational job indeed...this book is "One in A Million". My kudos to ya.
The worst book on the subject I have ever read ! .......2006-10-11
The book is a great disappointment and a disaster. I have bought anywhere between 20 and 30 books on self-motivation and this book is absolutely the worst one. It is quite obvious that the writer copied his ideas from all those books published in the last few years which were popular, so none is his own ideas. There is nothing original in this book. The writer claimed that he had once sit on an airplane next to a self-made billionaire, Richard Brandson, who gave him the inspiration that later made his career. (The writer also started a MBA course called Millionaire MBA which made me wonder what he is capable of teaching, considering the poor quality of the book.)
I cannot understand the book is written in such a way that is both dry and empty. Anyone who talked to Sir Richard Brandson on an airplane, would definately be able to write a much better book! Why did the writer write a fiction that is nothing but unbelievable in many of the details.
For people who did not have any success which worth talking about and only made a carrier because the books he wrote about self-motivation, I always have my strong reservation: If he did not have any success with his own theory , then how valuable are the books he wrote? Pure imagination ? I can recommend the books wrote by Richard Brandson himself, Loosing My Viginity, and Screw It, Let's Do It! And the book by journalist commissioned by Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich. It is much better to read the book written by the people who has made it rather than by someone who jumped on the band-waggon and wrote a me-too product in a hurry.
The Real Deal: Think and Grow Rich Updated as an Entrepreneurial Fable Based on an Airline Business Class Conversation.......2006-10-10
What could you learn from spending eight hours talking with a successful entrepreneur? Millionaire Upgrade provides an armchair version of that experience.
Many business fables don't quite hit the mark. Some fables portray key concepts in such a general way that you aren't sure what lesson you're supposed to draw. Other fables feature such ridiculous situations that it's hard to take them seriously. A few fables are too complicated.
I usually find business fables to be most effective when the situation they describe resonate as being like something I've experienced, the advice reminds me of key lessons I wish someone had taught me when I was younger, and I come away with new insights I didn't have before.
By those standards, Millionaire Upgrade is a clear winner that will help you break through to the right entrepreneurial mind set to accomplish great things.
Let me share more about my reactions before describing the book's contents. I've had conversations in first class on airplanes like the one described in this book, both as the person providing and receiving the advice. I treasure those memories. In these days when more and more leaders only travel on their own planes, it's harder and harder to gain this kind of experience. It seemed appropriate to encapsulate the experience into a business fable for that reason, if for no other.
I also teach entrepreneurs. The hardest point to get across is how fascination, passion, perseverance, fresh thinking, exciting others and putting the right team together are critical elements to superior entrepreneurial results. Everyone smiles at me when I talk about those factors, but I can tell they usually haven't absorbed the lesson as deeply as they need to.
I have spent a lot of time interviewing top entrepreneurs. When you do, you get a sense of the person that's like the entrepreneur in this fable. Richard Parkes Cordock has done a great service in capturing those qualities of quiet, but never-ending, focus in his character of Michael. Undoubtedly, the dozens of interviews he had with successful entrepreneurs gave him that accurate reading of their characters and habits.
I also liked that the concept behind the fable was based loosely on a real incident where Jason Murphy, a member of the author's family, was upgraded to sit next to Sir Richard Branson in seat 1B where the peripatetic entrepreneur did indeed provide advice.
Finally, this book provided a very effective mnemonic device to help remind me of the book's lessons. Many fables try to do that, and I can remember neither the mnemonic nor its lessons by the end of the book. This one sticks well. Nice!
Here's a quick overview of the book. Tom has procrastinated in getting ready for a flight to do a dirty job. All of that delay makes him almost miss the flight. He's the last one to board and finds himself upgraded to business class in seat 1B after the occupant of 1A gives up the seat he had reserved for an assistant who didn't join the trip. 1A notices that Tom has a copy of Think and Grow Rich with him. They start conversing. 1A turns out to be Michael Redford, a successful entrepreneur (whose history shows some parallels to Sir Richard Branson's).
Through the eight brief chapters, Mr. Cordock introduces the concepts behind "I believe . . . [to a} t" which is the mnemonic device I mentioned earlier. It's a good device in part because "I believe" is the essence of the kind of positive thinking that helps entrepreneurs to accomplish.
I don't think it's fair to reveal what all of these lesson are, but you deserve a couple of examples of my favorites:
One of the e's stands for "expect failure." That may sound like the opposite of positive thinking, but most entrepreneurs succeed because they are prepared to survive and learn from potential failures. Often those who have the most failures in the beginning have the largest successes later on.
Another e is "enjoy hard work." I was thinking of that point yesterday when a young medical assistant advised me to stop working so I could enjoy life. Surprised, I said to her that I really liked what I was doing and didn't want to give my work up. She was speechless. It was a new thought for her.
Do you want to succeed as an entrepreneur? Read and apply this book!
How to Upgrade Your Mindset.......2006-03-23
Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I began to read this book. There are already so many in print whose titles include "millionaire" and which purport to offer "secrets," "keys," etc. to the accumulation of wealth. After having read several of them, I still retain my high regard for others published long ago, such as Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Russell H. Conwell's Acres of Diamonds, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. That said, I soon realized that Millionaire Update is worthy of inclusion with those four.
Only in recent years have the unique benefits of the business narrative been properly recognized. Much of the credit for this is shared by authors such as John Seely Brown (Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management), Stephen Denning (The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations and The Leader's Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative), Doug Lipman (Improving Your Storytelling), and Annette Simmons (The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Storytelling).
Now let's focus on this book. Here's the situation. A hurried and harried business executive named Tom almost misses a critically important airline flight but, through the generosity of another business executive named Michael (who had purchased two tickets in business class but needed only one), sits next to him and the conversation which follows provides the narrative for Millionaire Upgrade. As Richard Parkes Cordock explains in the Introduction, this fictional situation is based on what once happened when one of his relatives, Jason Murphy, found himself seated next to Sir Richard Branson on an airline flight. Cordock also suggests that Michael represents both Branson and Sir Tom Hunter. Moreover, the wisdom which Michael shares with Tom also reflects what Cordock learned during his interviews of Branson, Hunter, and more than 50 other other wealthy entrepreneurs. As for Tom, he is "loosely based" on Cordock
It would a disservice to those who read this brief commentary as well as to Cordock to discuss any of the most important revelations during Tom's extended conversation with Michael. However, I can suggest that what Cordock shares can help many (if not most) of his readers to answer questions such as these:
1. What do I really, really want from life?
2. What do I want to be?
3. What do I really want to achieve?
4. Am I prepared to shape my life to ultimately achieve my goal?
Years ago, Rod Steiger was asked if he was often asked for advice about how to succeed as an actor. "Oh yeh, sure sure sure, many times. And I always ask, `Do you want to be an actor...or do you [begin italics] have to be [end italics] an actor?' The longer it takes to answer my question, the less likely that person will make it."
With all due respect to this and other thought-provoking books which provide valuable insights, the fact remains that many people have what Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton characterize as a "knowing-doing gap" in that they know what they must do to achieve success (however defined) but, for whatever reasons, are unwilling and/or unable to do whatever must be done.
Point is, Cordock and other authors do all they can to help their readers to understand themselves and their circumstances better but, ultimately and obviously, it is insufficient merely to possess knowledge. As Yoda explained to Luke Skywalker, "Do or do not, there is no try." For those who read Millionaire Upgrade, what Cordock shares can be quite valuable...but only if they then apply what they learn while remaining patient as well as persistent during what is certain to be a very difficult period of personal growth. It all begins with upgrading a self-limiting mindset.
Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Michael Ray's The Highest Goal, Bill George's Authentic Leadership, Jim O'Toole's Creating the Good Life, David Whyte's The Heart Aroused, and David Maister's Practice What You Preach. Also two books by Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Success Classics and 50 Self-Help Classics, which provide an excellent introduction to a number of other books which also offer valuable insights.
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The 90-minute Manager: Lessons from the Sharp End of Management
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The Sharp End
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Recap, The Drake Way.......2005-09-14
_The Sharp End_ by David Drake is an interesting departure from his standard Slammer's story. He changed his focus in this book from the armored tactics involved with the massive combat capabilities of his heavy tanks and combat cars, to small unit insurgency tactics and the recovery of psyche for his squad of characters. He borrows heavily from, and puts a new spin on, a well known plot that originally appeared in Dashiell Hammett's first novel, _Red Harvest_, in which a Continental Operative pits two small time crime families against each other in a midwestern town. This plot has become well known to the point of standardization thanks to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbu and Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars. However, David Drake's treatment of this plot is refreshingly competent, and the plot's familiarity allows the reader to focus on more interesting aspects of the story, namely the re-growth of his Slammers characters. The brief shorts outlining each character's failure and resulting breakdown are fascinating, seeming true to Drake's harsher stylings, which readers of _From Hell_ might find familiar. All in all, this book might not be Drake's very best work, but it is still an excellent story by an excellent writer, who deservedly dominates his niche in the sci-fi market.
Excellent first time, gets better each reading.......2003-02-04
David Drake's work is more subtle than a first reading would suggest. If you were to read just one Hammer story, or one Belisarius, you might think he was rubbing your nose in the blood and gore like so many of today's movies do, just to get a gut reaction and celebrate the carnage. However if you read the books a second, and a third time, and reflect on some of our recent history, you begin to understand that while the characters entertain the background of blood and gore reflects the brutal reality of human conflict the characters must act in, and survive. War is ugly. The characters that evolve and survive are forever affected by this ugliness. A tremendous amount of history is created in conflict. We are a product of that history and that brutality - David Drake wants to make sure we remember that and that we don't forget the human nature of the people who undertake the most brutal of human occupations. I would recommend his books to anyone who wants to serve their country, or who wants to be responsible for sending sons and daughters to war. There is a rough side to that business, and David Drake does an excellent job of reminding us of the ugly, the profound - and most of all the human sides of war. And,
it's a rollicking good read!
The Sharp End.......2003-02-03
All is not fair in love and war. Lines are not clean and easy to deliniate. Join Hammer's eclectic survey team on a mission to solicit business for the most lethal and successful mercenery force in the galaxy.
It's in the Hammers Slammers Series, what more do you need?.......2002-02-12
I loved it, it my favorite from the series! I've been waiting to find out more about the egnimatic Major Joachim Steubben for ages. This book is also the only one (so far I think) in this series that is only 1 book, as the others are a collection of stories.
Slammers revisited.......2000-07-30
This is very much a book in the Slammers series. This might be slightly superior to the others since all the main characters are introduced separately in a short story each, obviating the need for a long drawn-out bloodbath as in most Slammer stories. For most of the book the actual combat vehicles are missing, although these make a surprise entrance in the last chapter, apparently more for sentimental reasons than for the sake of the story.
In short: if you like the Slammers buy this. If you don't know what the Slammers are leave it in the bookstore.
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Dr. H. J. Sharp's vision of The Work is vast in scope, whether expressed in Gurdjieffian terms; in terms of other esoteric traditions; or in terms of modern scientific discoveries. My End is My Beginning represents the accumulated knowledge of one man in his quest for ultimate truth, and can serve as an important guide for each of us in our own search for truth.
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- daily life on the front lines
- The best book of it's type I have encountered.
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Sharp End: The Fighting Man in World War II
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daily life on the front lines.......2004-06-06
Most of the soldiers in World War II never experienced combat. It took a dozen soldiers behind the front lines to support and supply a single trooper at "the sharp end" where the battles were fought and won. "The Sharp End" focuses on the British and American fighting men. The author attempts, with considerable success, to describe the daily life of the men on the front lines -- their training, the hardships of the front lines, how they were killed or wounded, what they ate, how they dug foxholes, their morale and why they fought.
Fascinating vignettes abound in this book. One of the most interesting to me was the author's description of British soldiers' addiction to tea which they brewed up at every opportunity, even while under fire. A British orderly once described the five principles of preventing shock as "a cup of tea and four lumps of sugar." Getting tea to the front lines had a priority second only to ammunition.
Other vignettes are not nearly so cheerful. The author gives an extended discussion on subjects such as battle fatigue or "shell shock", medical care, and self-inflicted wounds. All in all, reading this book will give you an excellent idea of what it was like for the World War II soldier in the deserts of North Africa, the forest of Western Europe, and the jungles of SE Asia. It was not a pleasant life -- nor a very long one for many of the infantry who bore, by a large margin, the majority of the casualties of the war.
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The best book of it's type I have encountered........1997-07-23
G.K. Chesterton said that "a...rational army would run away" and this book shows, better than any other that I have read, why it should and why, so often, it doesn't. In a field that includes Keegan's `Face Of Battle' this is high praise.
Focusing on the experiences of the ordinary Western Allied soldier during the Second World War Ellis discusses the circumstances affecting the lives of the front line soldier from recruitment through training and combat to his eventual fate.
Ellis examines the detail of what was actually happening to the individual Tommy or GI, using many first hand accounts and an appropriate admixture of statistics, without ever becoming heavy going or gratuitously gory. Where there are blood and tears they are there because that is how it was. This approach enables a number of popular myths about the war to be examined in a clearer light. His comparison of the experiences of members of the rifle companies of an infantry battalion during the Second World War with his predecessor of 1914-18 is especially illuminating as is his analysis of what actually keeps soldiers fighting.
I found the book impossible to stop reading and was left with a feeling of great sadness, profound respect for individuals who kept going in circumstances that I personally would find overwhelming and a greater understanding of the mechanics of war that tend to sink below the magnification of many conventional military histories. If you have any interest in the subject matter at all, or possibly in the reaction of ordinary people to extraordinary circumstances, you should read 'The Sharp End'.
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- Hello James, it's been a long time.
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- An Amazing Story
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Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier's Story
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Hello James, it's been a long time........2005-11-27
I am the person who failed the driver's course James refers to in his book. Any lads out there with a desire for adventure should join the forces. If you keep an open mind, you will have no regrets. I am proud to have served in Her Majesty's Canadian Army. Merry Xmas James!
I thought you were a role model..........2002-02-23
I'm a private in the Canadian Forces RCR and just finished reading James Davis' book about a month ago and I have to say that it was well written for the most part. I picked it up because I wanted to learn more about overseas tours the Canadian Army participated in and this book told me a lot and will definetely help me to expect the circumstances I have to deal with when I am there. The story is good, dealing with everything from basic training to Sarejevo so I could relate to a bit and I think it would also serve purpose to those who are considering joining the CF.
An Amazing Story.......2000-10-14
I am only 14, but as I read this story of danger and heroism I am touched. This detailed book of the Canadian Forces and one mans life as a sergeant is amazing. It has inspired me to join the Forces when I'm older. It is a book that every student should be required to read. It is a vivid story full of adventures. I read and found it great. I was looking for a book on the Canandian Army in the local library and found this book it looked very interesting so I checked it out. It's the best book I've read in my life!
True Courage.......2000-09-21
In Davis' story, we finally come to see the fine calibre of men Canadian politicians have ruthlessly shamed with old "blame the many for the few bad apples." At last, the conditions our soldiers face on peacekeeping missions are revealed. Perhaps if more who have served in the Canadian Armed Forces would step forward and tell their stories, we would see how proud we can be of our Canadian peacekeepers, over and over again. Davis proves how valuable he is as a soldier along with all the Airborne he served with. He also demonstrates how callous the Canadian government is in its treatment of the armed forces that it sends on peacekeeping missions worldwide. What's more, Davis tells his story in his own voice, and that's also what makes his tale so mesmerizing.
Truth, at least.......2000-05-25
This book reveals story different than officials in US and Canada told us. I learned how easy I've been manipulated.
Page 167-168: The next morning, a report came in from the observers that no Serb mortars had fired that they were aware of. The trajectory was calculated and it was determined that the Bosnians had mortared their own children. For public relations purposes. Sure enough, the morning news in the city reported that the UN and their Serb allies had killed these children. We could not believe it.
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At the Sharp End
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