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Title
: Screw It, Let’s Do It
Author : Richard Branson
Publisher: Virgin Books
Year of publication: 2009
ISBN: 9780753511497
Category : Business Life
Detail : Paperback 258 pages
Price : RM44.90
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The
chapter headings in this book sum up Branson’s approach
to work and to life – Just do it. Have fun. Be Bold. Challenge
yourself. Stand on your own feet. Live the moment.
Chairman of the Virgin Group, Branson was an entrepreneur from
an early age, having set up Student magazine when he was merely
sixteen.
With more than three hundred companies around the world in numerous
industries, the book cover boasts that Branson is the only person
in the world to have built eight billion-dollar companies from
scratch in eight different sectors.It goes to show you that if
you are successful like this man is, it is due to the principles
and approach you have in life and work.
This is not a one off success. And as he has proven, if the principles
are sound, and you have done it once to great success, you can
replicate it over and over.
This book explains how he has approached business, how he thinks
through issues and how he has gone the hard yards. Bumps, losses
and failures have littered the pathways as he walked but these
are insignificant to him, as he takes it in his stride, putting
himself one step closer to where he wants to be.
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HR
Matters Magazine
Issue 13 | January 2011
The
Future of Work
Key Predictions About Work in 2025
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“The
best lesson I learned was to just do it.....If you look ahead
to the end, and all the miles in between, with all the dangers
you might face, you might never take that first step. Whatever
it is you want to achieve in life, if you don’t make
the effort, you won’t reach your goal.”-
Richard
Branson |
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You could be average and carry on successfully albeit in a mediocre
fashion. Or you could risk it all on one big thing, one big untested
thing.
And that’s how Branson thinks. He thinks big, he takes risks.
He is willing to risk failure to succeed.If you want to know what
success looks like, read this book. It’s not roses and glory.
It’s not happy days all the time. But by and large, Branson
has fun doing what he does, his mind constantly ticking over with
ideas. Ways to make things better. New forays to get into, just
because. Nothing stops him and certainly not the fact that it’s
something he’s never tried before.
His secret – he can make his mind up about people and ideas
in sixty seconds. He relies more on gut instinct than thick reports.
Definitely highly recommended and entertaining to read.
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