Negocios y liderazgo

1.- Decide and Deliver. Blenko, Mankins and Rogers

«Discuss, decide and deliver»

2.- Winning. Jack Welch

«Exceed expectations, broaden your job´s horizons, and never give your boss a reason to have to spend capital for you. Manage your subordinates carefully, collect mentors, and spread your positive attitude. When setbacks come, and they will, ride them out with your head up»

3.- Outliers «The history of success» Malcom Gradwell

«No one who can rise before dawn 365 days a year fails to make his family rich»

4.- Act like a leader think like a leader. Herminia Ibarra

«Borrow the best bits and pieces from different people to compose and shape your own behavior and unique collage wich then you modify and improve.

5.- Various articles «On Managing people» HBR Press

«The message of shared, common fate is powerful in an organization truly seeking to build a culture of teamwork»

«A young person’s first manager is likely to be the most influential, if manager is unable or unwilling to develop the skills of young people they will set lower standards than what they are capable of achieving»

6.- Freakonomics.  Levitt and Dubner

«No se trata de una tarea necesariamente difícil, tampóco requiere de una reflexión súper sofisticada. En esencia, hemos intentando averiguar lo que el típico miembro de pandilla o el típico luchador de sumo averiguaron por si mismos»

7.-El arte de la guerra. Estrategias milenarias para líderes de todos los tiempos. Sun Tzu

«El estratega vencedor primero se asegura las condiciones necesarias para la victoria, después entra en combate»

8.- Happier. Tal ben -Shahar

«What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call for a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him»

9.- Pensamiento lateral práctico. Edward de Bono

«Años de trabajo pueden incluso frenar el descubrimiento de nuevas ideas, dado que a lo largo de estos la conveniencia de las viejas ideas puede verse reforzada si estas tienen alguna utilidad»

10.- Predictably Irrational. The hidden forces that shape our decisions. Dan Ariely

«The success of most people almost always depends upon the favor and good opinion of their neighbors and equals, and without a tolerably regular conduct, these can very seldom be obtained. The good old proverb, therefore, that honesty is always the best policy, holds, in such situations, almost always perfectly true»

11.- The first 90 days. Proven strategies for getting up to speed.  Michael D. Watkins

«Transition failures happen because new leaders either misunderstand the essential demands of the situation or lack the skill and flexibility to adapt to them»

12.-Seis sombreros para pensar. Edward de Bono

«Ocurre con mucha frecuencia que las dos partes de la discusión tienen razón, pero cada una se refiere a un aspecto distinto de la situación. La gente no decide discutir porque este sea su método favorito, simplemente no conocen formas diferentes de intercambiar opiniones»

13.- You´re in charge, now what? Neff and Citrin

«You will generate goodwill and support by reaching out to others, listening, trying to be helpful, and committing to show others that you were the right choice for the job»

14.- Dealing with conflict. Amy Gallo

«We want people to like us, but also we want to get our way. It would be ideal if our colleagues always agreed with our ideas, gave the resources we asked for, and still be liked by the end of the day. But it doesn’t work that way, going through difficult experiences can make the strongest, most resilient relationships»

15.-Delivering happiness, a path to profit, passion, and purpose. Tony Hsieh

«Envision, create and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you»

16.- 60 seconds and you´re hired! Robin Ryan

«In the end, what does any work mean to me? That I have done my best, excelled when I could, taken risks and made a difference by being there»

17.- Ideas y reflexiones. Enrique Coppel Luken

» El trabajo nos hace útiles, servir a los demás y nos acerca con las personas con las que compartimos nuestras actividades o a las que servimos»

18.- Vendele a la mente, no a la gente. Jurgen Klaric

«Es dificil que las personas sepan porque compran las cosas, pero siempre trataran de parecer inteligentes, por lo que necesitamos justificar de forma racional nuestras decisiones, ante nosotros mismos y ante los demás»

19.- The chinese mind. Boye Lafayette de Mente

«After Mao, a significant switch of all the long-repressed talents and ambitions of vast numbers of Chinese were quickly channeled into entreprenurial enterprises. Hundreds of thousands of businesses sprang up virtually overnight»

20.- The chinese way of business. Boye Lafayette de Mente

21.- 48 leyes del poder. Robert Greene

«Nunca discutas. En sociedad nada debe rebatirse, solo dá resultados»

 

 

 

Etica, filosofia, religión

Bibliografía y algunas frases incluidas en los mismos.

Lecturas completadas:

1.-Plato and a Platypus walk into a bar… «understanding philosophy through jokes»  Cathcart & Klein

«These are my principles, if you don’t like them, I have others»

2.- The seven spiritual laws of success.  Deepak Chopra

«You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.»

3.-Bushido «El código ético del samurai» Inazo Nitobe

“Rectitud es la facultad de decidir cierta línea de conducta, de acuerdo con la razón, sin titubear; morir, cuando es justo morir; matar, cuando se debe matar”

4.- Aristotle and an Aardvark go to Washington «Understanding political doublespeak trough philosophy» Cathcart & Klein

«Congratulations Dave, I don’t think I´ve ever read a more beautifully evasive and subtly misleading public statement in all my years in the government»

5.- Ethics. Benedict de Spinoza

«Men judge that what is most important in each thing is what is most useful to them, and to rate as most excellent all those things by which they are more pleased. Hence they had to form these notions by which they explained natural things; good, evil, order, confusion, warm, cold, beauty, ugliness. And because they think themselves free, those notions have arisen: praise and blame, sin and merit»

6.- Spinoza en 90 minutos. Paul Strathern

«La idea de Dios es la más grande que podemos concebir, y esta idea tiene invariablemente el atributo de la existencia»

7.- Qur´ranic ethics. Bashir A. Dar

«In the matter of ethical conduct, in the practice of virtue and avoidance of evil and wrong. There are no distinctions between nationalities and countries»

8.- God´s debris. Scott Adams

«If God knows what the future holds, then all our choices are already made, aren’t they? Free will must be an illusion»

9.- Los cuatro acuerdos. Dr. Miguel Angel Ruiz

«Imagina que vives sin miedo a ser juzgado, no te dejas llevar por las personas piensan de ti. No eres responsable de la opinion de nadie. No sientes la necesidad de controlar y nada te controla a ti»

10.- Life´s little instruction book. H Jackson Brown Jr.

  1. Don’t waste time grieving over the past mistakes. Learn from them and move on.
  1. Leave everything a little better than you found it.

11.- Today Matters. John C. Maxwell

«Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of easy things you didn’t do when you should have»

12.- Nuevos líderes para un nuevo mundo. Julio Decaro

«No hay seguridad ni paz absoluta, salvo la que viene de la confianza absoluta y solo se puede confiar en lo que se es, no en lo que se tiene»

13.- 12 Rules for life Jordan Peterson

«Aim up. Pay attention. Fix what you can fix. Don´t be arrogant in your knowledge. Strive for humility, because totalitarian pride manifests itself in intolerance, oppression, torture and death. Become aware of your own insufficiency, cowardise, malevolence, resentment and hatred»

 

«So long, and thanks for all the fish»

Jesús Ruelas

Novelas y aventuras

1.- The Hitchhiker´s guide to the galaxy. Douglas Adams

«It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination»

2.- The restaurant at the end of the universe. Douglas Adams

«In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move»

3.-Life, the universe and everything. Douglas Adams

«The Somebody Else’s Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what’s more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people’s natural disposition not to see anything they don’t want to, weren’t expecting, or can’t explain»

4.- So long and thanks for all the fish. Douglas Adams

«I was being perfectly serious,” said Arthur. “It’s just the Universe I’m never quite sure about»

5.- Mostly Harmless. Douglas Adams

«It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else’s point of view without the proper training»

6.-Endurance, Shackleton Incredible Voyage

«The endurance was gone, I cannot write about it, we are alone, now in every direction, there is nothing to be seen but the endless ice. Our position is 63°38.5 South 52°28 West. A place where no man had ever been before, nor could they conceive that any man would ever want to be again»