Financial planning - Automatic Millionaire
Book summary
The Automatic Millionaire starts with the powerful story of an average American couple—he’s a low-level manager, she’s a beautician—whose joint income never exceeds $55,000 a year, yet who somehow manage to own two homes debt-free, put two kids through college, and retire at 55 with more than $1 million in savings. Through their story you’ll learn the surprising fact that you cannot get rich with a budget! You have to have a plan to pay yourself first that is totally automatic, a plan that will automatically secure your future and pay for your present.
What makes The Automatic Millionaire unique:
· You don’t need a budget
· You don’t need willpower
· You don’t need to make a lot of money
· You don’t need to be that interested in money
· You can set up the plan in an hour
David gives you a totally realistic system, based on timeless principles, with everything you need to know, including phone numbers, websites and apps, so you can put the secret to becoming an Automatic Millionaire in place from the comfort of your own home.
Summary - Tribal Leadership
by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
What Is a Tribe?
- A tribe is a group of people.
- A small company is a tribe. A large company is a tribe of tribes.
- What makes some tribes more effective than others is culture. Stage 5 tribes out perform stage 4 tribes.
What Is Tribal Leadership?
- Tribal Leadership focuses on language and behavior within a culture
- It does not seek to address cognitions, beliefs, attitudes, or other factors we cannot directly observe.
- Each cultural stage has its own way of speaking, types of behavior, and structures of relationships.
- Tribal Leaders do two things:
- listen for which cultures exist in their tribes and
- upgrade those tribes using specific leverage points.
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To Listen for Which Cultures Exist in Their Tribes, Tribal Leaders Must Know the Following
Summary of Stage One
Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History
Craig Larman - Valtech
Victor R. Basili - University ofMaryland
Although many view iterative and incremental development as a modern practice, its application dates as far back as the mid-1950s. Prominent software-engineering thought leaders from each succeeding decade supported IID practices, and many large projects used them successfully.

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