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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