If you want to give yourself a personal MBA, read these 10 books:

Go into monk mode with these 10 books (you'll thank me later):

The Hard Things About Hard Things
by Ben Horowitz

A playbook for dealing with the hard truths leaders confront every day.

Lessons:

• Build the business, not the culture
• The importance of Wartime CEOs
• There are no silver bullets, only lead bullets

Zero to One
by Peter Thiel

Teaching the most important skill in life: learning to think for yourself.

Lessons:

• Last can be first
• Rivalry causes us to copy the past
• Progress comes from monopoly, not competition

Hooked
by Nir Eyal

Reading this helped me grow Herb by 168% year-over-year.

Lessons:

• Start with triggers
• Make actions easy
• Offer variable rewards

Predictable Revenue
by Aaron Ross

This book is the playbook for building sustainable revenue.

Lessons:

• Implement a proven outbound sales system
• Create a sales machine using the $100M best practices from Salesforce

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Mckinsey makes millions on a single presentation.....yeah👀

Here is the central business storytelling framework I learned in my 4 yrs there🧵👇

First, why should you care?

If you closely observe, most people do academia-style communication.

They stream details(situation, complications, etc) first and then slowly build up the conclusion.

And it works ...

but not when you have to be persuasive and sell your ideas.

A consultant at Mckinsey, Barbara Minto, realized this anomaly in the 60s and capitalized on it.

She built a framework that would change the course of the firm.

Eg- Mckinsey currently boasts a roster of 90 of the top 100 companies in the world.

Quick aside to acknowledge that Barbara Minto is a badass

- one of the first Harvard female MBAs

- and the first female Mckinsey consultant

What she proposed was so influential - other consulting firms also adopted her principles.

The framework is also a secret weapon....

It makes consultants appear sharp = accelerates their growth.

eg- many top CEOs are ex-Mckinsey.

Sundar Pichai - Google
Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook
James Gorman - Morgan Stanley

CEOs at Vodafone, Boeing, Footlocker, LEGO, Grammarly, Best Buy.

Full list at the end:

Learning myths #2: Learning formats 👇

Many believe that there are different types of learners

I.e. some people learn more effectively from visual material, some from auditory material and others from kinaesthetic practice

Therefore, instruction should be tailored to each learner’s preferred style (1/11)

Paul Howard-Jones (2014) suggested that this assumption is based on the fact that different regions of the cortex have different roles in visual, auditory, and sensory processing, so students should learn differently “according to which part of their brain works better” (2/11)

Yet, despite the popularity of the theory, there is ample evidence to contradict its validity (3/11)

Tesia Marshik (2015) gave an example of a study to test this.

Participants are given a list of words to memorise. They are either presented with the written list of words, with images of the words, or they listen to the words being read aloud (4/11)