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Chenkai Zhu
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Contents
Acknowledgments
2. Go ahead- Be different
3. Be do have
8. Be accountable
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Foreword
In foreword part, Marshall Goldsmith said that we are living in a new era- one of
rapid change, uncertainty, and global competition. This book is a guide that to help
people cope with their inner mind. This book is filled with great stories of successful
Acknowledgments
In this part, author noticed some people involved in the birth of this book, author
The inner world of an entrepreneur is diversity. The major topic of this book is
1. Deal with our fears, as an entrepreneur; we have to face our fears more often
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2. Remain innovative, which is very important.
inside.
6. Climb up from despair, how to wake up after a big lose maybe the biggest part of
business.
Katherine’s story
Katherine is a successful businesswoman, Fred was her perfect partner, but he was
died. Katherine doesn’t believe she can run a business herself. Without Fred, facing
mind boggling dilemmas every day leave her conflicted, exhausted, drained, and
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depleted of alternatives. She selected new partner for her business. But the new partners
also bring more trash to her. “Trash” is the pile up of unwanted, not useful connections
his/her career. Katherine’s trash is that she doesn’t believe in herself, a lot of people
have too much ego, but there still some people lack of confidence. Katherine thought
past successes are all belong to Fred, she didn’t evaluate herself in a reasonable level.
Practice 1: Use the 5,000 year old business tool- meditation. Meditation involves
getting quiet, clam down the inner noise, getting inner peace.
Practice 2: Let go, bring yourself into the present moment, you’ll release
frustration and old beliefs and clear your mind to allow for new and better solutions.
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Chapter 2 Go ahead – Be different!
Andrew’s story
manufacturing company, Andrew felt restless with the daily life, so he turned to become
a self-employed, but he got a failure result. He didn’t like who he was, he hid behind a
mask and couldn’t show his true self to the world, he try to learn everything from Bill
Gates, play a role to manage the company, and obviously it doesn’t work. Andrew’s
problem is he didn’t manage the business with authenticity, authentic leadership is the
Author gave 4 practices to readers; readers can use these ways to release their own
inner leadership.
Practice 2: Becoming you, after known the truth of the inner mind, entrepreneur
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Practice 3: Know your purpose; think about why people would run a business,
Practice 4: Leading from the heart, we should know that passion is the resource of
business.
Chapter 3 Be do have
In this chapter, author gave us two concepts, one is “DO HAVE BE”, another one
is “BE DO HAVE”. Kiera’s story explained the differences of the two concepts. Kiera
is a college students with too much work to do, she felt can’t relax herself. Actually she
did much more works than she should do. Because she is a follower of “DO HAVE
BE”-- “If I do what is needed to reach my goals, then I’ll have what I want, and then I’ll
be it.” But she even didn’t know who she wants to be. Author recommended the “Be do
have” concept, people need to know the goal first. Than do some works for the unique
goal.
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Practice 1: Clarify your goal. This is a simple step but is the base of the future
work.
Practice 2: Fake it till you make it. Always imagine the day that you reach your
goal, that would helps you defend all the upsets during the way.
Practice 3: Shift the paradigm, shift the top goal to a lot of simple goals for
Practice 4: Enjoy the ride, maybe the best thing is not reaching the goal, the
Dipak’s story
matter for his business, his ego helped him became a successful businessman, but also
damaged the career in a short time. Ego is the false sense of self, we should balance it in
a healthy level, and the balancing element should be the humility. If you come from an
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over inflated ego, when you lose, you feel less than or worthless. We should
Pracitce 1: When you’re fighting the good fight, stop, we should stop unlimited
Practice 2: If they don’t love you, if doesn’t matter, someone spent too much time
on get other’s attractions. We don’t need to be the “Choosen One” every minute.
Practice 3: See things with new eyes, always change old view for others, people
should not stay one place all the time, and we should keep track of them.
Practice 4: Say goodbye to your old friend, old friends always notice you your
past glory. That really makes you feel unstoppable all the time.
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This chapter is about communication, business is a art of how to communicate
with others, effective communication brings success, we should look inside the other’s
words, and give the right feedback is important. There are four types of communication:
the includer, the helper, the thinker, and the driver, people should know what type I am,
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Mark’s story
Mark was frustrated with his boss’ lack of consideration for others. Mark always
try to analyze the meaning in boss’ words, it is really do a bad in their relationship.
Actually, listening includes three senses: hearing, seeing, and intuition. When we are
listening other’s words, we should be present. Especially listen for what isn’t being said.
Practice 1: Listen with your ears and your heart, follow the speaker’s heart, try to
Practice 3: Listen for what isn’t being said, sometimes speakers unable to speak
out some points, maybe he/she will give out the ideas by other ways, we should track
them.
Practice 4: Fight distractions, it is not just showing respect to speaker, but also
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Practice 5: Listen on-purpose, listening with questions maybe the best way to
Elliot, he started the company 5 years ago, and grew to 2.5 million in annual
revenues. But he faced a failure with his company, but he learned a lot from the
experience. Failure is not something to be shameful of, but something to hold. It is our
biggest teacher. Human tendency is to push quickly through failure and pain, so failure
of any size is your ally, not your enemy, you should embrace it.
Author gave a 5-step practice to guiding us how to learn something from failure:
2. Write it down
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By this process, we could get a lot from a “happy” failure.
Chapter 8 Be accountable
Dropping out of college, David cut his teeth in business working for his father’s
friend, Alan. But after it, David found it is difficult to be accountable in business world.
But only when you are accountable, you own the outcome, whether it’s good or bad. So
we should do our promise, because we can’t hold others accountable, until we hold
ourselves accountable first. We need do our best, then test it to make sure, like the
Practice 1: Keep your word, the most important to be accountable. If we could not
keep our promise, how we can expect others should keep their words?
Practice 2: Throw your cap over the wall. After given word, we have to follow
through on it.
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Practice 3: Construct an Arch, and then stand under it.
Inecitably when you set a monumental goal, one that will make a big difference in
your life if attained. In a lot of cases, entrepreneur wanted to create a business, but the
We should get crystal clear on our goal for our business, include the date we want
to achieve it by, we should write it down. Then visualize our goal, feel how it will be
when we achieve the goal. Create an action plan to rach our goal. We shouldn’t do it
2. Believe it
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4. Find a mentor or coach
This is a short chapter that reminds us to care about our health; the health is the
basement of any success. We should search a balance of work, play, fitness. Pause in
the busy situation. Retrain our eating; find our unique way to release endorphins, the
happy hormones.
Author gave an entrepreneur fitness quiz and some following steps to keep
healthy:
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Chapter 11 Walk between the raindrops, but stomp in the puddles
In this chapter, author told readers to listen to our inner voice by a short story. Eve,
a petite woman who opened her own business, always keep listen to her inner voice, it
made her really success in the business world. Author told us our inner voice speaks
loudest when we are sleeping, and during the daytime, we should take time each day to
Now: means getting present-coming into the moment listen to inner voice
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In this chapter, author told us work is more than doing tasks and making money,
satisfying work comes from knowing our MO- modus opreandi. It means model to do
the tasks. We should appreciate ourselves often with a standing O. Put our ego to sleep
Starbucks got it right with the MO. They sell coffee, and they sell some food, not
Author told us to find out our MO first, and separate appreciation from our ego,
bask in our own glory, then get back to work. This the practice contents in this chapter.
Last chapter is growing strong. There is a JJ’s story, an entrepreneur who became
successful, sold his company, and made a decision that would impact the rest of his life.
The exit is an important part of the business, we should think about it during the entire
business period. We should find and cut our pictures that represent what we want to go,
what we want to do, who we want to be. Post these pictures or gather them into a box,
put them in daily view. We should have our own standards (values), and rely on them.
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Use the standards to get what our most desire and help us with decisions that involve
integrity.
1. Vision board
Personal comments
When first pick up the book, I guess it should be a original business book, but
after went through it, I found I made a mistake, this book is easy to read, combine the
truth of the business world to some real story. Made me feel familiar with the situation
that author mentioned. This book is also an excellent “tool book” for entrepreneur, we
are in a new era, which keep changing all the time. How to keep our inner mind
peaceful is so important for us. This book taught me a lot of useful ways to release
pressure, listen to my inner voice, and keep balance the ego and so on. I think if an
entrepreneur faces some problems that stopped their forward step; this book must be a
perfect guide.
Thanks for my professor, also the editor of this book, CJ Rhoads introducing this
interesting book to me. I think you and the author Nanci Raphael really tought me a lot.
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