Showing results by author "Mark Stewart"

Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your company, your career, and your life. Written by three thought leaders in organizational development and self-improvement, including Built to Last co-author Jerry Porras, Success Built to Last challenges conventional wisdom at every step. It draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world.

"Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies From Using Analytics Service" is from the May 08, 2016 Tech section of The Wall Street Journal. It was written by Christopher S. Stewart and Mark Maremont and narrated by Alexander Quincy.

This audiobook is very easy to listen to, easy to understand, and highly enjoyable if you are interested in learning about psychopaths and sociopaths. When you get into listening to this book, you will be able to see how far we have gone with the research in order to help you achieve your aims with psychopaths and sociopaths. 

To study enduring success, Mark Thompson and Stewart Emery interviewed some of the world's most successful individuals: John McCain, Jimmy Carter, Maya Angelou, Sally Field, Charles Schwab, Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama, and many more. What they found was honesty, humility, and above all, a passion for their various pursuits. The common thread is that meaning is the foundation of true success.

Written by musician/entrepreneur Dave Stewart and branding expert Mark Simmons, The Business Playground offers a revealing look at what creativity is and how to apply it in business through an inspiring mix of scientific studies, anecdotes, high-profile interviews, and thought-provoking games that you can play alone or with your co-workers.

Embrace your flaws and weaknesses-and transform them into the building blocks of greatness! We expect our heroes to be perfect, despite overwhelming evidence they never are. The ancient Greeks had no such expectations. It wouldn't be Greek mythology if the heroes weren't deeply flawed. And get this-there was no cure! Only if the hero recognized his weakness would the story end well.

Credibility; confidence; integrity; and strength – these are the keys to success in every aspect of your life. Let the expert authors from FT Press, including Jerry Porras and Stewart Emery, share their experiences on achieving success.

"Twitter and Islamic State Deadlock on Social Media Battlefield" is from the April 13, 2016 World section of The Wall Street Journal. It was written by Christopher S. Stewart and Mark Maremont and narrated by Alexander Quincy.

How to use carefully calibrated, constructive confrontation to ignite your team's best, most passionate, most creative ideas.The best thing you can do about contention is throw fuel on the flames. You heard it right. Contention is something enduringly successful people actually seek out: gloves-off, brutally frank dialogue. These "naked conversations" are not intended to be personally abusive. The focus is on issues, not people.

Try, fail, try again, win small, win a bit bigger, dig deeper inside...and do more than you ever imagined you could! Maybe you thought you'd wait to tackle your passion when you had more self-confidence. Do the work, accomplish something and, voila, you'll gain that confidence. Marva Collins doesn't advise parents, kids, and teachers to wait for self-confidence, or to believe success is an entitlement. Self-esteem is overrated: it's about effort.

As conventionally defined, "balance" doesn't matter. Passion does. Learn how to find it-and start living it!CEOs and Nobel laureates don't have "balance". The Dalai Lama doesn't. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mother Teresa didn't. Enduringly successful people, many living lives that are gifts to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue. Not because they've handled it masterfully - but ecause they're busy doing what matters to them.

Discover your lifelong obsession: the passion that creates meaning you'll never want to escape from! Whether it's British Airways, Coca-Cola, or NASA, whenever the old guard takes its eye off the prize, Richard Branson feels a moral obligation to set the big guy's platform on fire. You have to admire billionaires like this. What keeps them so passionately involved even after they've long since "arrived"?