I just finished reading Drive, by Daniel Pink, (conveniently downloaded from my library) and I learned some surprising things about motivation.
The most startling concept was that incentives can actually hurt motivation. At first I didn’t believe this, but as the book went into details I started to see when I lost motivation at different points [...]
I’ve been reading books that may (or may not) be helpful to me once I start my MBA. I simply did a Google search and started downloading any recommended books available from my library as an e-pub.
The book I’m currently reading is Freakonomics. I actually read part of this book before - I picked it [...]
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I’ve been reading various articles and blogs about getting the most from your MBA. I really should be delving into a finance blog rather than surfing the internet, but let’s face it - I’m on vacation, even if it is a 6 month holiday. =)
I found a few interesting blogs to follow, mostly current or [...]
I looked into buying the accounting prep book recommended by my school, Advanced Preparation for Financial Accounting by Robert N. Anthony and Leslie Pearlman Breitner. The book is ridiculously expensive here in New Zealand, so I’m going to wait until June/July when I return to the U.S. Amazon offers the book for about $50 and [...]
I start my MBA in August and since I am on vacation until then, I thought I could do some pre-MBA reading. I’m not ready to pick up an accounting book or anything, but reading something like the Communist Manifesto might not be so bad.
I did a Google search to see if there were any [...]