Monthly Archives: January 2009

This past week, Harry and I attended the Texas MBA tour event in Addison. This event had admissions officers present from all of the major business programs in the Texas area, and was basically just an informational event for people interested in MBA programs. We figured surely we could recruit one or two members for the group, and so we printed up some flyers and handed them out at the event.

Here is a copy of the flyer:

Personal MBA Students,

Thanks to all that attended the meeting last night.  It was great to meet all of you and go over the vision for the group.  

Upcoming  Reading Selections

To those that were not able to make it, we have chosen our first three books.  After that, we will select together a section from the personal MBA book list (link below) to pursue together.   

The first three books will be (click the title to order):

1)      10 Days to Faster Reading  
By: Abby Marks-Beale, The Princeton Language Institute 

Discussion: Feb 1^st

2)      StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths
By: Tom Rath

 Discussion:  Feb 15^th

 3)      Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised
By: Napoleon Hill

 Discussion:  March 1st

 Notes on the books:

 You will want to order these books soon as we will be discussing the first one, 10 days to faster reading at the next meetup – 14 days from now.  

Strengths finder 2.0 has an online test, and from what I understand you need an unused code from the book to use it, so I would make sure to get a new copy. 

Other Important Links:

Please review these sometime this week: 

1)      The Group Blog -  http://www.dallas-pmba.com – This is what will become the group portfolio.  My goal is to have one person write an article or review on each book we cover. 

2)      The Personal MBA Manifesto – http://personalmba.com/manifesto/ – Explains the whole concept behind the Personal MBA.  Highly recommended.