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Michael posted a review at 2012-07-07 02:24:23 for The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement.
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It's a long story with little lesson. A straight forward 10 commandments would be much better.
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Michael posted a review at 2012-07-07 05:59:31 for Brain Building in Just 12 Weeks.
(Language: English)
It is too long-winded. Concision is a sign of intelligence, which is clearly a missing feature in this book.
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Michael posted a review at 2012-06-22 06:41:17 for The Luck Factor.
(Language: English)
Waste of time. Lifting off psychological research and concluding with old wives' tale. It's an absolute insult to the readers' intelligence.
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Michael posted a review at 2012-01-16 08:01:26 for cloud computing and soa convergence in your enterprise.
(Language: English)
Too long-winded, much Ado About Nothing. If you cannot say it simply, simply, you do not know enough.
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Michael posted a review at 2012-01-05 09:16:10 for Specification by Example.
(Language: English)
It could have been written in a very concise manner. This is bad attitude of documenting itself. Worst of, I learn nothing from the book. Collaborative work should have more strong tips than what is discuss in the book. I wasted time on this, and imagine the paper wasted to print this. Very disppointed.
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Michael posted a review at 2011-09-10 09:12:14 for The 4-Hour Workweek, Revised and Expanded: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.
(Language: English)
Some pointers are good, such as "Top 13 New Rich Mistakes", and how to get manufacturers. I wish he elaborate more on "getting manufacturers"
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Michael posted a review at 2011-09-09 06:11:43 for Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life.
(Language: English)
Don't waste your time on this book.
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Michael posted a review at 2011-09-09 05:33:15 for Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.
(Language: English)
I didn't find anything useful. There are many tactical insights that are not stated in this book which are taught in the military. Author also made a mistake in "be like water" concept - it's not from Karate. It was cited from Bruce Lee - a proponent of Kungfu.
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Michael posted a review at 2008-02-23 07:29:44 for Da Vinci Code.
(Language: English)
Da Vinci was borned 1400 years after Jesus death, the most brain-dead fact ever known. Besides his ingenuity and fame, not many people know much about Da Vinci to relate his credentials to stand as eye-witness to Christ. Now that the Vatican has debunk the fiction per se, it depicts the abysmal ridicule of human ignorance and plain superstition in reading any old wives' tale such as this.
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Michael posted a review at 2008-02-23 07:24:21 for The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers.
(Language: English)
Practical exploits illustrated. Security, ala vigilance, is not about knowing, akin the mind of a strategist, cannot be acquiring through reading. One has to grow up within the culture to be cultivated.
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Michael posted a review at 2008-02-23 08:20:00 for Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not.
(Language: English)
[Don't Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Robert Kiyosaki Gets it Wrong with Money] Robert Kiyosaki's Book, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" has long been hailed as a must read for anyone who wants to do well with money. In the book, he compares the financial advice of his two fathers, his well educated father who was a typical American, and his other father (who was actually his friend's father) who was more of an entrepreneurial type. In the book, he asks the entrepreneurial father to teach him about money. The "rich dad" then teaches him through various life lessons about how money works. The rich dad teaches him the value of financial intelligence, using corporations to avoid taxes, and building business systems and income producing assets rather than the traditional means of working hard and saving for the future. The book and Kiyosaki's teachings as a whole have on critical flaw: They never factor in risk. Kiyosaki suggests that we focus on a few "good investments" rather than diversifying your portfolio. This is a great way to become broke, very quickly. In fact, Robert Kiyosaki lost all of his money in 1985 when his t-shirt business failed. Kiyosaki had to declare bankruptcy and ultimately became homeless! Risk is an extremely important part of finance that Kiyosaki just glosses over and barely ever mentions. You have to factor in risk in your investments, otherwise you would be going to Vegas and betting your money on 18 black all the time because the payout is about 4000%! Of course you wouldn't do that because there's far too much risk involved! "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" has a lot of anecdotal stories and lessons, but offers almost no concrete advice that one should follow. Many readers of the book feel extremely motivated to become financially independent and are ready to "escape the rat race", but they soon realize that the book gives them no idea how to proceed. If this book is supposed to teach us about money, should it not give us concrete suggestions as to what we should do in order to become financially independent? It's quite clear that some of the things that Kiyosaki is teaching is quite simply, bad advice. Perhaps his "rich dad" was not as wise as Kiyosaki had thought. Kiyosaki described his "rich dad" as one of the richest men in Hawaii. After the rich dad could never be found, many people believed that the rich dad was a metaphor rather than an actual person. In 2003, Kiyosaki backed off from the statement that "rich dad" was a real person, and instead stated, "Is Harry Potter real? Why don't you let Rich Dad be a myth, like Harry Potter?" Kiyosaki's book just does not offer a worthwhile plan to follow, and it practically ignores risk all together. I think I'll get my financial advice from someone who actually has a lot of money, as opposed to the mythical "rich dad." [Criticism] * Rich Dad, Poor Dad has been criticized for having almost no concrete advice and too many anecdotal lessons. There are readers who have reported finishing the book feeling motivated and ready to begin "escaping the rat race," only to realize soon after that they have been given no idea how to proceed. It has also been said that discerning fact from fiction or anecdote is difficult in the book. * Some advice given in the book is thought to be poor or even dangerous by other investors. For example, Kiyosaki advocates focusing on a few "good investments" rather than diversifying. He also downplays the importance of traditional education. John T. Reed, an outspoken critic of Robert Kiyosaki, says, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad contains much wrong advice, much bad advice, some dangerous advice, and virtually no good advice."He also states, "Rich Dad, Poor Dad is 1 of the dumbest financial advice books I have ever read. It contains many factual errors and numerous extremely unlikely accounts of events that supposedly occurred." Kiyosaki has provided a rebuttal to many of Reed's statements. * Some of the claims Kiyosaki makes in Rich Dad, Poor Dad about his accomplishments appear to be exaggerations, fabrications or misdirection. People have speculated on the identity of his "rich dad" and whether this individual even existed, reasoning that such a man, whom Kiyosaki describes as "one of the richest men in the Islands," and his family who carry on his tradition, would have been very well known in as small a state as Hawaii. In the February 2003 issue of SmartMoney magazine, Kiyosaki backed off his claim that his "rich dad" was a real person, instead saying, "Is Harry Potter real? Why don’t you let Rich Dad be a myth, like Harry Potter?"
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