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Thinking Fast and Slow
Outstanding work from Economics Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman, on thinking process and how we miss the logic of things in our everyday decision making. The author uses the concept of two ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Science of Fear – Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn’t — and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
The terrorist attacks of 9/11/11 are the perfect example of how fear can put ourselves in greater danger. After seeing the airplanes hitting the World Trade Center on the TV, people decided that ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Speaking at CEO National Conference 2013 – Technology and Startups
Last Friday (November 1st) I spoke at the CEO National Conference about how to properly leverage technology in a startup. The event happened at the McCormick Place, and it was pretty fun! I ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Abundance – The Future is Better Than You Think
We’re used to hear about doomsday news every day, and we have literally become accustomed to the “fact” that we are a hopeless generation, that will soon become extinct by ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Reality Check – The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
This book is surprisingly entertaining, and covers pretty much everything you need to deal with a startup. It covers pretty much all the way from inception of the idea, going through raising ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Innovator’s Solution – Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
This book’s message could be easily summarized by saying that there are only two kinds of companies: the ones that disrupts, and the ones that are being disrupted. There is no middle ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Post-American World – Release 2.0
The title may lead you to think that the author is going to picture a pretty chaotic picture for USA in the next decade. Not true. In fact, it talks a lot more about the balancing out of power ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Parkinson’s Law
Quick and easy read. This book is short but full of pearls. Published in 1957, but still very much current when it comes to predicting, understanding, and managing human beings. One of this ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Discoverers – A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself (Book One – Time)
This book is a treasure chest full of memories on how we have gotten where we are today. Learning of the past mistakes and successes helps us avoid present pitfalls and flirt with a brighter ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
The Long Tail – Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Even if you don’t plan to read it, you can’t get away without understanding the phenomenon described by Chris Andersen in his book The Long Tail and expect to thrive in the age of the ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Digital Disruption – Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
Short book, inspiring if you were born before 1980 and never been too much into the tech world or have never been an entrepreneur and want to understand the driver of today’s digital ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
Wikinomics – How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
You know when a book is outdated when it mentions MySpace as the leading Social Network, and makes short references to Facebook. This book was once very relevant, but now it is so outdated that I ...
Adriano Marques
CEO at XNV
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