Many people are competent at their job, and eventually get promoted. Then, competence in that new position qualifies them for yet another promotion. This happens until the point they are no longer competent and no longer eligible for the next promotion. That means you are also at risk of hitting the point of incompetence! This concept is named The Peter Principle. 

So, given enough time, and assuming there are enough ranks in the heirarchy, each employee may rise to their level of incompetence and gets stuck. 

The authors of this book analyse this phenomena and tell you how to achieve a state of wellbeing by avoiding that unwanted promotion.

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The Inner Game of Tennis book isn't just about tennis. In this book, W. Timothy Galleway uses anecdotes of tennis games to illustrate the tools we need to improve our performance in any activity. Focus in tennis is fundamentally no different from the focus needed to perform any task. 

The Inner Game of Tennis reveals how to:

- Focus your mind to overcome nervousness, self-doubt, and distractions

- Find the state of relaxed concentration that allows you to play at your best

- Build skills by smart practice, then put it all together in match play.

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If all goes well, human history is just the beginning. Humanity is about two hundred thousand years old, but the Earth will remain habitable for hundreds of millions more. Enough time for millions of future generations, enough to end disease, poverty and injustice forever and enough to create heights of flourishing unimaginable today.

Such a lifespan places present-day humanity in its earliest infancy. A vast and extraordinary adulthood awaits.

This book argues that safeguarding Humanity's future is the defining challenge of our time. For we stand at a crucial moment in the history of our species. Fuelled by technological progress, our power has grown so great that for the first time in humanity's long history

We have the capacity to destroy ourselves. Severing our entire future and everything we could become.

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The 5 Levels of Leadership provides the ultimate leadership GPS to guide your career journey. In this book, John C. Maxwell identifies 5 levels of leadership and how to maximise them. 

As you progress in your leadership abilities, you move up to a higher level. But instead of trading one level for another, you need to build upon it. Don’t leave the lessons from your previous experiences behind! 

This book is the guide that will help you make the most of your professional experience—regardless of where you are right now.

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Ryan Holiday joins us on the show to talk about all things books.

We've covered five of his books on the podcast before (Perennial Seller, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, Stillness Is The Key, Courage Is Calling) so we were able to dig a little deeper into his writing and his career.

Check out more Ryan Holiday here: https://ryanholiday.net/

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There is nothing we prize more than courage. But courage is not a precious stone like a diamond that takes a billion years to create, nor oil that must be drawn from deep underground.

Courage is something much simpler. It’s renewable. It’s everywhere. It's something that we are capable of at a moment's notice. There are unlimited, even daily opportunities for it everywhere. And yet it remains so rare. Why?

Because we are afraid. It's easier not to get involved. We have something else we're working on and now is not a good time. An understandable logic, but if everyone thought that way, what's left?

In an ugly world, courage is what allows beautiful things to happen.

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Robert Greene is back! Not every day you get to speak to your favourite author. Robert Greene is author of books we've already reviewed on the podcast, including The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery, 48 Laws of Power, 33 Strategies of War (plus we'll do Seduction one day too).

His new book, The Daily Laws is like a 'greatest hits' album, giving you a powerful punch for each day of the year.

In this episode we get to delve deeper into some of the best ideas in his books. He's a weapon. Enjoy!

Find more about Robert Greene and all of his books here: http://powerseductionandwar.com/

And check out all of his social channels here: http://robertgreeneofficial.com/

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The Effective Executive - by Peter Drucker

'The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done'

Written in 1967, the principles in this book still hold strong today. Simple ideas presented in this book can have a substantial impact on your effectiveness, like focusing on results and contribution, managing your time before managing your tasks, and focusing on opportunities rather than problems. 

The 8 questions or practices of an Effective Executive:

1. ask, ‘What needs to be done?’
2. ask, ‘What is right for the enterprise?’
3. develop action plans
4. take responsibility for their decisions
5. take responsibility for communicating
6. focus on opportunities rather than problems
7. run productive meetings
8. think and say "we" rather than "I"

The 5 Habits of an Effective Executive:

1. Know where your time goes
2. Focus on outward contribution
3. Build on strengths
4. Concentrate on the few major areas where superior performance will produce outstanding results
5. Make effective decisions

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Whether we like it or not, the process of innovation is dictated by random combinations of different concepts. Individuals and teams who often break new ground know this and therefore maximise their chances of finding intersectional ideas. They do it by introducing diversity into their occupations, teams, and encounters.

Frans Johansson has named this concept ‘The Medici Effect’ after the Medicis, the 15th Century banking family in Florence, Italy. The Medicis funded creators from a wide range of disciplines and brought sculptors, scientists, poets, philosophers, financiers, painters, and architects to converge on the city of Florence. This was the beginning of The Renaissance—a period where knowledge and creativity were advancing. 

This book will show you how to find such intersectional ideas and make them happen. It isn't just about the Medici family or the Renaissance era. It's about the elements that made that era possible.

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