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The Monk and the Riddle

The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

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The Monk and the Riddle

By: Randy Komisar, Kent Lineback
Narrated by: Randy Komisar
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About this listen

 What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life...? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to ""do what we have to do"" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller ""The Monk and the Riddle"", entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. Business Development & Entrepreneurship Career Success Entrepreneurship Leadership Management & Leadership Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Stress Management Career Employment Business

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more rambling than instruction ... I was pretty disappointed with this book . it had a pleasant story but not what I was looking for

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randy's mental models around and about entrepreneurship bleed into other areas of life, which make this an invaluable perspective for any smart person's book shelf.

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