Speaking opportunities
Both authors are available and open to invitations to speak at schools, universities or other occassions. Between themselves, Muzaffar and Jan have delivered speeches and lectures at Imperial College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, University College London, City University and CASS Business School, Cambridge University, and a number of schools. The topics of these lectures ranged from life skills and personal development to careers in finance and financial markets to entrepreneurship and student ventures.
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Contact detailsSample chapters: Habits
Read further"..Consider your typical weekday. How and when you wake up, what makes up your morning routines, the way you get to work or school, the way you approach your daily tasks, Each of these individual activities can then be broken down into further habits - what is the structure of your 'catch up online' routine? Do you check your email first? How do you process it - randomly, by importance, by time, by people? Where do you read your news? How do you choose what news to read, and how much of it? We could continue de-constructing your daily routines into infinity.
When we really think about our day and realise how many of our activities are habit-driven, it is easy to understand the extent to which habits influence our life, and therefore their importance for the outperformer. Habits are, to put it simply, what either do or do not transform vision into reality.."
Sample chapters: Measurability
and Yardsticks
Read further"..Creating leverage is a much less structured process that is very difficult to describe or quantify. Leverage relates very closely to lateral thinking, as it often arises as a consequence of thinking outside the box and thereby doing things in unconventional ways or accessing unexpected resources. It has certainly been the case in our experience that the decisions which created the most leveraged results resulted directly from ignoring or breaking certain conventional wisdoms, universal truths or widely accepted principles.
Independent thought is often the key to leveraged results. The best way to develop a questioning, critical mindset that is at the same time capable of innovation and thinking outside the box is to always ask insightful questions, and build on the principles we describe in the chapter on lateral thinking.
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