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What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:

“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes.”
“I scuba dive in Panama.”
“I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”

He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:

• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office

You can have it all—really..
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Are you a CEO, manager, or entrepreneur? A consultant, author, or speaker? Or a doctor, lawyer, idea person, or inventor? Whoever you are, and whatever you do, you have a unique WOW factor--that special element only you can deliver to your business that will satisfy and delight your customers and clients. And whether you already have a dream career whose potential you want to maximize, or are just starting to make your way in your profession, you need to target that seed of success that will put you on the map and make you a household name.

Where's Your Wow? is a step-by-step guide to developing what makes you unique--your signature style--and will help you to:

• Envision your success
• Find your unique edge--and sharpen it
• Know your customer
• Apply to the present what you learn from the past
• Create alliances
• Hire people smarter than you
• Spread the word
• Stay hungry
• Put people first

Using Robyn and Rick's Winning system to systematically build a personal brand will boost the profitability of your business. Not through some “magic formula,” but a carefully crafted program that takes into account the wisdom and secrets of hundreds of people who have achieved WOW success.

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Checked your forehead lately?

See a use-by date?

No? Then why on earth are you worrying about retirement?

Wake up - retirement is a dumb idea with no place in modern society It's absurd, economically unviable and can kill you. In a radical, bound-to-be controversial but definitely thought-provoking new approach to the second half of your life, David Bogan and Keith Davies challenge you to turn everything you've been conditioned to think about retirement on its head.

Here, in Avoid Retirement and Stay Alive, Bogan and Davies skillfully dissect the retirement industry and arrive at some life-changing conclusions, with real life examples of enlightened individuals who have looked intelligently at their future and decided to live actively and stay in control. There is an exciting, vibrant life beyond a miserly, uncertain retirement.

Bogan and Davies will show you how to:

• Remain active in a new, scaled-back career without giving up traditional retirement activities
• Invest in your physical, mental, and emotional health
• Plan for an occupation that will keep going as long as you do

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Practice spirituality in a culture where work has become a religion

This collection of real-life examples offers refreshing stories of everyday spiritual practices people use to be freed from the work and worry mindset of our culture. Full of insight and inspiration, Finding Time for the Timeless will help empower you to walk in their footsteps, learning how even your busiest workweek can include spiritual habits and routine.

Without demanding impossible amounts of your busy day, these stories will help you forge a lifestyle that is more meaningful and spiritually aware—allowing you to discover that finding time for spiritual enrichment will enhance your life and calm your soul..
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Today's overachieving professionals labor longer, take on more responsibility, and earn more than the workaholics of yore. They hold what Hewlett and Luce call "extreme jobs," which entail workweeks of 60 or more hours and have at least five of ten characteristics--such as tight deadlines and lots of travel--culled from the authors' research on this work model. A project of the Hidden Brain Drain Task Force, a private-sector initiative, this research consists of two large surveys (one of high earners across various professions in the United States and the other of high-earning managers in large multinational corporations) that map the shape and scope of such jobs, as well as focus groups and in-depth interviews that get at extreme workers' attitudes and motivations. In this article, Hewlett and Luce consider their data in relation to increasing competitive pressures, vastly improved communication technology, cultural shifts, and other sweeping changes that have made high-stakes employment more prominent. What emerges is a complex picture of the all-consuming career--rewarding in many ways, but not without danger to individuals and to society. By and large, extreme professionals don't feel exploited; they feel exalted. A strong majority of them in the United States--66%--say they love their jobs, and in the global companies survey, this figure rises to 76%. The authors' research suggests, however, that women are at a disadvantage. Although they don't shirk the pressure or responsibility of extreme work, they are not matching the hours logged by their male colleagues. This constitutes a barrier for ambitious women, but it also means that employers face a real opportunity: They can find better ways to tap the talents of women who will commit to hard work and responsibility but cannot put in overlong days..
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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Labour cost represents a huge portion of total cost in many industries. This paper looks at the novel idea of using compressed workweeks to save labour cost. While the idea is quite simple and applicable, it appears to be unknown. We give examples to show that savings in labour cost can be more than trivial, making the idea useful. We also provide formulae for computing workforce sizes and show how to construct schedules under a variety of scenarios. .
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