The education of millionaires everything you won't learn in college about how to be successful
Ellsberg draws on interviews with successful, wealthy individuals who never attended or finished college, identifying their winning principles to offer advice on networking with high-powered mentors and designing a lucrative career path.
| Main Author: | Ellsberg, Michael. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Portfolio/Penguin,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Craigslist test of the value of a BA (or, Why practical intelligence almost always beats academic intelligence)
- How to make your work meaningful and your meaning work (or, How to make a difference in the world without going broke)
- How to find great mentors and teachers, connect with powerful and influential people, and build a world-class network
- What every successful person needs to know about marketing, and how to teach yourself
- What every successful person needs to know about sales, and how to teach yourself
- How to invest for success (The art of bootstrapping)
- Build the brand of you (or, To hell with resumes!)
- The entrepreneurial mind-set versus the employee mind-set: become the author of your own life
- Epilogue: The education bubble is about to pop: are you prepared for the aftermath?
- Afterword: Objections and replies.