Antonio García Martínez is an American New York Times Best Selling author and tech entrepreneur. He is a former product manager for Facebook, the CEO-founder of AdGrok and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.

Antonio García Martínez

Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor known for his bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.

In a world where efficiency and competency rule the workplace, where do personal strengths fit in? It's a complex question, one that intrigued Cambridge-educated Marcus Buckingham so greatly, he set out to answer it by challenging years of social theory and utilizing his nearly two decades of research experience as a Sr. Researcher at Gallup Organization to break through the preconceptions about achievements and get to the core of what drives success. The result of his persistence, and arguably the definitive answer to the strengths question can be found in Buckingham's four best-selling books 
   First, Break All the Rules
 (coauthored with Curt Coffman, Simon & Schuster, 1999); 
   Now, Discover Your Strengths
 (coauthored with Donald O. In a world where efficiency and competency rule the workplace, where do personal strengths fit in? It's a complex question, one that intrigued Cambridge-educated Marcus Buckingham so greatly, he set out to answer it by challenging years of social theory and utilizing his nearly two decades of research experience as a Sr. Researcher at Gallup Organization to break through the preconceptions about achievements and get to the core of what drives success. The result of his persistence, and arguably the definitive answer to the strengths question can be found in Buckingham's four best-selling books 
   First, Break All the Rules
 (coauthored with Curt Coffman, Simon & Schuster, 1999); 
   Now, Discover Your Strengths
 (coauthored with Donald O. Clifton, The Free Press, 2001); 
   The One Thing You Need to Know
 (The Free Press, 2005) and 
   Go Put Your Strengths To Work
 (The Free Press, 2007). The author gives important insights to maximizing strengths, understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management, and fulfilling the quest for long-lasting personal success. In his most recent book, Buckingham offers ways to apply your strengths for maximum success at work.What would happen if men and women spent more than 75% of each day on the job using their strongest skills and engaged in their favorite tasks, basically doing exactly what they wanted to do? According to Marcus Buckingham (who spent years interviewing thousands of employees at every career stage and who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing), companies that focus on cultivating employees' strengths rather than simply improving their weaknesses stand to dramatically increase efficiency while allowing for maximum personal growth and success. If such a theory sounds revolutionary, that's because it is. Marcus Buckingham calls it the “strengths revolution.” As he addresses more than 250,000 people around the globe each year, Buckingham touts this strengths revolution as the key to finding the most effective route to personal success and the missing link to the efficiency, competency, and success for which many companies constantly strive.To kick-start the strengths revolution, Buckingham and Gallup developed the StrengthsFinder exam (StrengthsFinder.com), which identifies signature themes that help employees quantify their personal strengths in the workplace and at home. Since the StrengthsFinder debuted in 2001, more than 1 million people have discovered their strengths with this useful and important tool. In his role as author, independent consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal and is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Yahoo and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success. A wonderful resource for leaders, managers, and educators, Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between engaged employees and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover. Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987 with a master's degree in Social and Political Science. 

Marcus

Reid Garrett Hoffman CBE is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners.

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L. John Doerr is an American author, investor and venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins in Menlo Park, California.

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Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author. He’s written two books, Sprint and Make Time, and has coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management.

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James Clear is a personal development keynote speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits. His entertaining talks teach audiences about small habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement.

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Adam M. Grant is an American psychologist and author who is currently a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. He received academic tenure aged 28, making him the youngest tenured professor at the Wharton School.

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Seth Godin is the author of 18 books. He's also the founder of the online workshops altMBA and The Marketing Seminar. Godin has founded several companies, including Yoyodyne and Squidoo. In 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame.

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Peter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies and Founders Fund. He was ranked No. 328 on the Forbes 400 in 2018, with a net worth of $2.5 billion.

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Russell Brunson is a digital marketing entrepreneur, author, coach, and speaker. He was born in 1980 in Provo, Utah, United States, where he grew up to develop an interest in business and other hobbies.He long started developing his marketing skill when he was much younger as he would collect junk mails, used radio and television ads, seizing every business opportunity just to get as far as possible knowledge and understanding from the marketing world.Outside marketing and business in general, Russell loved wrestling while growing up which soon turned a hobby for him.In high school, for example, Russell was a state champion wrestler, becoming an all-American in his senior year, taking second place in the country at the high school nationalsRussell Brunson is a digital marketing entrepreneur, author, coach, and speaker. He was born in 1980 in Provo, Utah, United States, where he grew up to develop an interest in business and other hobbies.He long started developing his marketing skill when he was much younger as he would collect junk mails, used radio and television ads, seizing every business opportunity just to get as far as possible knowledge and understanding from the marketing world.Outside marketing and business in general, Russell loved wrestling while growing up which soon turned a hobby for him.In high school, for example, Russell was a state champion wrestler, becoming an all-American in his senior year, taking second place in the country at the high school nationals. This he continued into his college, learning valuable lessons about competition, hard work and the art of winning. He became one of the top ten wrestlers in the country at graduation.Fast forward to this day, Russell Brunson has founded, and has also co-founded several successful companies, popularized some of the most effective sales techniques used in the world of marketing today, and had also published several successful books in the marketing category.

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Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has now exceeded 400 million downloads.

Broderick Stephen Harvey is an American comedian, businessman and entertainer. He hosts The Steve Harvey Morning Show, Family Feud, Celebrity Family Feud, the Miss Universe competition and Fox's New Year's Eve. Harvey began his career as a comedian.

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Jason Zweig first started writing a personal finance column for The Wall Street Journal in 2008. Zweig also edited Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, which Warren Buffett said "by far the finest book about investing ever published." He's the author of Your Money and Your Brain, one of the first books to look at investing's biology, as well as The Devil's Financial Dictionary, a satirical lexicon of Wall Street jargon.

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Joshua Waitzkin is an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. The film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is based on his early life.

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Newsweek called Paul Krugman a superstar of economics, and Peddling Prosperity the best primer on recent U. S.  history.  More praise followed.  This wonderful book finds him in top form, looking back twenty years to what he calls The Age of Diminished Expectations--a time when economic promise was never fulfilled.  In the past two decades, rival economic schools have vied to gain political influence, but strange things happen on the way to power: ideas are hijacked by policy entrepreneurs--snake-oil salesmen right or left who promise easy answers to hard problems.  Supply-siders rose with Ronald Reagan and left behind a $3 trillion debt.  Krugman observes an unhappy parallel in those who shape policy within the Clinton administration. 

Drew Houston is an American Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service.

Drew

Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur.

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Tom DeMarco is the author of fifteen books, including five novels, a collection of short stories and the rest business books. His most recent work is a seemingly jinxed love story, The One-Way Time Traveler. Before that he wrote Dark Harbor House, and before that Slack and Peopleware and The Deadline.Tom DeMarco is the author of fifteen books, including five novels, a collection of short stories and the rest business books. His most recent work is a seemingly jinxed love story, The One-Way Time Traveler. Before that he wrote Dark Harbor House, and before that Slack and Peopleware and The Deadline.

A stretch objective wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that it's hard to plan, prioritize, and eat lunch when you're doing the job of two or more people.  Tom DeMarco, a prominent management consultant to Fortune 500 and emerging organizations, has identified a paradoxical concept that explains why improving efficiency can occasionally slow a company down.  If your true organizational aim is to become more responsive and agile, he suggests that you need more slack rather than greater efficiency.  What exactly is slack? Slack is a company's degree of flexibility that permits it to evolve. 

Ev Williams is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Williams was previously chairman and CEO of Twitter. He also founded Blogger and Medium, two of the largest and most notable blog distribution websites.

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