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Mark Bouris The Business Playbook
Australia's most respected dealmaker sits down for an exclusive masterclass — the rules they never teach in business school, and why ignoring them will cost you everything.
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Mark Bouris The Business Playbook
Viking Horses and Lava Flows
Nothing New Under the Sun: Bath, the Romans, and the Rediscovery of Ancient Wisdom
The Act As If Frame – You can be anything you can pretend to be…or can you?
The Problem with Dichotomous Thinking
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Mark Bouris The Business Playbook
Australia's most respected dealmaker sits down for an exclusive masterclass — the rules they never teach in business school, and why ignoring them will cost you everything.
Viking Horses and Lava Flows
My daughter had been planning this day for the better part of a year. The pony bug had arrived in our household the way pony bugs tend to — quietly, then all at once — but this one came with a uniquely, gloriously specific fixation: she wanted to ride an Icelandic horse. Not just any horse. An “Icelandic” horse.
Nothing New Under the Sun: Bath, the Romans, and the Rediscovery of Ancient Wisdom
The sign at the entrance to the Roman Baths in Bath asks visitors to refrain from touching the water.
The Act As If Frame – You can be anything you can pretend to be…or can you?
Somewhere, right now, a wellness influencer in a white linen shirt is telling several million people that if they simply act as if they are already wealthy, confident, healthy and loved, the universe will catch up.
The Problem with Dichotomous Thinking
Welcome to dichotomous thinking — the cheerful little tyrant living rent-free in your head, sorting the world into Good and Bad, Success and Failure, Friend and Foe, with the brisk certainty of a customs officer at three in the morning.