Ian Pollard's latest book Investing in Your Life: Your Biggest Investment Opportunities are Not Necessarily Financial breaks significant new ground through its compelling analogy between the building of human and social capital and the accumulation of financial capital. It shows the same drivers at work, compound interest, annuities, leverage, options, opportunity cost, returns for risk and many more.

This multi-faceted analogy demonstrates that the sky is the limit in human and social capital and makes it easier for you to spot huge upside in your own. This will inspire you to invest your valuable time and energy more wisely and to avoid the systemic underinvestment which typically results from the poor measurability of most human and social dimensions.

Your ultimate prize from Investing in Your Life is greater opportunity and greater meaning. Your life is your responsibility and in this book you will discover tools for identifying and generating those big opportunities which can transform it. Fundamental to this is your capacity to engage with others, mutually leveraging off each others 'Life Capital': human, social and financial.

about the author...

Over three decades Ian Pollard has been chairman, a director or chief executive of about thirty companies. DCA Group, which he founded in 1984, grew to become one of Australia's 100 largest listed companies. He is currently Chairman of RGA Reinsurance Australia, a director of Milton Corporation, the Purves Environmental Fund and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.

Ian is an experienced executive coach with Global Coaching Partnership, and has also had wide-ranging involvements in the not-for-profit sector. He is an actuary and Rhodes Scholar and has represented Australia in tennis. Ian serves on the advisory councils of both JP Morgan Australia and the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology, Sydney

Ian's abiding interest in all these activities is the development of people's capabilities and relationships, their identification of opportunities and the magnitude of what some people achieve and contribute in their lives.

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Transform Your Life

Pollard's original insights

Please select... Big points in life Free options Informed mutual champions Leverage and deliberate practice Leverage and time management Leveraging others' life capital Life capital Lollapaloser One life-enriching conversation per month Pollard's Paradox Qualified deal flow The financial/ Life Capital analogy The tradability of options

Proven ideas from the experts

Please select... Adler's "What of it?" Bennis & Biederman's great groups Cialdini's psychology of persuasion Covey's emotional bankaccount Covey's sharpen the saw Covey's "win-win" mindset Fisher's scuttlebutt Graham's margin of safety Granovetter's strength of weak ties Johari Window Lynch's 2 minute monologue Maister's first law of service Munger's forwards & backwards thinking Munger's mental models O'Kelly's concentric circles Reichheld's ultimate question Schwartz' manange your energy not time Seligman's flexible optimism Seligman's positive psychology Senge's definition of failure Senge's dialogue versus discussion Surowiecki's wisdom of crowds Taleb's black swan & serendipity Taleb's scandal of prediction Wegner's transactive memory Whyte & Janis' groupthink

Inspirational stories to challenge you

Please select... Alan Waddell Bono Brother Colm O'Connell Colleen Barrett Dr Raff Gene O'Kelly Hajeera's US$50 microfinance loan Heart patients Richard Feynman Tiger Woods Transplant recipients

So you are...

Please select... A CEO An entrepreneur building a business A financial advisor A human resources executive A job seeker A person looking to buy a business A person whose life is in transition A professional services provider A woman executive

Reviews, Video/Podcasts, Presentations

Please select... Articles / Reviews Actuary Australia (June 2009) AFR Boss (July 2009) CEO Forum (Winter 2009) CEO Forum Website (May 2009) Charter Magazine (Dec 2009) My Career Video/Podcasts 2GB, with Ross Greenwood, Podcast Business 21C, Video & Book Review AICD Podcast Institute of Actuaries - Podcast, Biennial Cenvention Institute of Actuaries - Podcast, Insights Presentations Ferrier Hodgson - Presentation Institute of Actuaries - Insights Slides Institute of Actuaries - Paper, Biennial Cenvention