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Welcome to my personal website!
My name is Juan Mackie, and I'm thrilled to have you here. This platform serves as a window into my world, where I can share my passions, experiences, and insights with you.I am captivated by the realms of business, investing and business operations. The dynamic nature of the market, the strategic decision-making process, and the potential for growth have always intrigued my entrepreneurial spirit. This passion led me to establish my own company and later work alongside my family in our business. I have embraced the challenges and rewards of being self-employed and experimenting within the world of business operations.A passion of mine is the importance of efficient business operations and the impact they have on overall success. From streamlining processes to optimizing resource allocation, I am constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance business operations. Through my personal experiences and ongoing research of the giants before me, I have developed a deep understanding of effective strategies for driving productivity, minimizing costs, and maximizing customer satisfaction.In parallel to my business interests, I have a keen interest in real-world psychology and how the smallest triggers can change an outcome. I believe that understanding human behaviour and decision-making processes is crucial in any business endeavour. By combining my knowledge of psychology with my entrepreneurial drive, I strive to create strategies and solutions that genuinely resonate with people.Technology is another realm that has always fascinated me. It's one of the most powerful forms of leverage and best of all it's accessible to all. I stay up-to-date with the latest advancements, trends, and innovations in the tech industry, and constantly tinker to see what fits and works. From leveraging software solutions, AI and open-source solutions, I embrace technology as a powerful tool for business growth and transformation. I am a firm believer that harnessing the potential of technology can revolutionize industries, improve lives, and drive exponential growth.Beyond the office, reading and building is my idea of fun. I find solace in the act of creating something tangible. The satisfaction of learning a new idea or seeing an idea materialise is exhilarating.Through my personal website, I aim to share my expertise and experiences in business, investing, real-world psychology, technology, tinkering, making, and business operations. I hope to inspire and empower individuals who share similar interests and aspirations and build long-lasting connections. Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, a technology enthusiast, or someone seeking inspiration for your creative endeavours, I am here to provide valuable insights, resources, and support.Additionally, I am eager to engage with like-minded individuals who can offer fresh perspectives and contribute to collective knowledge. I believe in the power of collaboration and the exchange of ideas, and I look forward to connecting with vibrant individuals passionate about business, technology, and creative pursuits.Thank you for visiting my website, and I encourage you to explore.

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One at a time

The podcast where I explore one thought-provoking idea at a time. Join me as I share my musings on a wide range of topics that I find interesting, from the latest trends in technology to operating a business, simple investing and topics I have found interesting. As we delve into each thought, I will spill my take on it and hopefully start a conversation and spark your interest in that very topic. So, if you're curious about the world around you and want to explore it with an open mind, tune in to "One at a Time."

Writings

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  • Updated: 2023/05/13

  • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

  • Maverick

  • Critical Path

  • How Will You Measure Your Life?

  • Productize: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services into Scalable Products

  • The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

  • The Symphony of Profound Knowledge

  • Business Bullseye by Allan Mason

  • Awaken The Giant Within

  • The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America

  • The Puppet Masters: How the Corrupt Use Legal Structures to Hide Stolen Assets and What to Do About It

  • The sovereign individual

  • The Paradox of Success: When Winning at Work Means Losing at Life

  • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company

  • Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

  • Treasure Islands, men who stole the world

  • How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don't Know

  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

  • Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!

  • Lives In Trust: The Fortunes Of Dynastic Families In Late Twentieth-century America

  • The Hidden Wealth of Nations

  • Family Wealth: Keeping lIt in the Family--How Family Members and Their Advisers

  • Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony

  • Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game

  • The Deming Dimension

  • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

  • Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

  • Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention

  • Necessary but Not Sufficient: A Theory of Constraints Business Novel

  • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

  • The Haystack Syndrome: Sifting Information Out of the Data Ocean

  • The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!

  • The Power Law: Inside Silicon Valley's Venture Capital Machine

  • How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients

  • Running with Purpose: How Brooks Outpaced Goliath Competitors to Lead the Pack

  • I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

  • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

  • Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

  • Small Giants: Companies That , Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

  • Predictably Irrational

  • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

  • The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America

  • The Ultimate Sales Machine

  • The Power of Full Engagement

  • The Surrender Experiment

  • Million Dollar Consulting

  • The Score Takes Care of Itself

  • The Paradox of Choice

  • American Bonds

  • The Status Game: On Social

  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

  • The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

  • Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future

  • A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

  • Vested: How P&G, McDonald's, and Microsoft are Redefining Winning in Business Relationships

  • Amp It Up: Leading for Hyper Growth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity

  • Zero to IPO: Over $1 Trillion of Actionable Advice from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

  • Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing

  • In Business As in Life, You Don't Get What You Deserve, You Get What You Negotiate

  • The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

  • Measures of Success: React More

  • HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (HBR Guide Series)

  • Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity

  • Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

  • The Effortless Experience: Conquering the New Battleground for Customer Loyalty

  • The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy

  • Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

  • SELL LIKE CRAZY: How to Get As Many Clients, Customers and Sales As You Can Possibly Handle

  • Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

  • What got you here won't get you there

  • The Art of Pricing

  • The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings

  • The Innovator's Dilemma

  • Pleased, but not Satisfied

  • Priceless by William Poundstone

  • Building a Second Brain

  • Three Blind Mice: How the TV Ken Auletta

  • Lessons from Private Equity Any Company Can Use by Orit Gadiesh

  • Entrepreneurship

  • The 1% Windfall: How Successful Grow

  • The Art of Intrusion

  • The Art of Deception

  • Topgrading by Bradford D. Smart

  • After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

  • Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life

  • The 3G Way

  • A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War

  • Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life

  • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed

  • Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

  • How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers

  • Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders

  • The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create Value and Transform Their Company

  • Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire

  • The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings

  • Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

  • Dream Big

  • Running with Purpose: How Brooks

  • Outpaced Goliath Competitors to

  • Lead the Pack

  • Zero-base Budgeting by Peter Pyhrr

  • The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

  • The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market

  • Family Trusts: A Plain English Guide for Australian Families

  • Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire

  • Property & Taxation: A Practical Guide to Saving Tax on Your Property Investments

  • Position and How We Use It

  • Taxation for Australian Businesses: Understanding Australian Business Taxation Concessions

  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

  • how credit shaped a nation

  • Invisible bankers

  • Personal History

  • The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits

  • The Invincible Company: How to Constantly Reinvent Your Organization with Inspiration From the World's Best Business Models

  • Flatlined: Why Lean Transformations Fail and What to Do About It

  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

  • Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

  • The Intelligent Company: Five Steps to Success with Evidence-Based Management

  • A Pattern Language

  • Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

  • Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

  • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

  • The Risk-Driven Business Model: Four Questions That Will Define Your Company

  • The Aspirational Investor: Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life's Goals

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

  • Tribal leadership

  • The Tools by Phil Stuz

  • Culture Code

  • Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

  • Change to Strange: Create a Great Organization by Building a Strange Workforce

  • Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril

  • The Inside Advantage: The Strategy That Unlocks the Hidden Growth in Your Business

  • The New Experts: Win Today's Newly Empowered Customers at Their 4 Decisive Moments

  • Peak: how great companies get their mojo from Maslow

  • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything

  • The Inside Advantage: The Strategy That Unlocks the Hidden Growth in Your Business

  • Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

  • Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders

  • How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In

  • The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company

  • SYSTEMology: Create time, reduce errors and scale your profits with proven business systems

  • Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

  • Book why we sleep

  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

  • The Lords of Strategy

  • Buyer Personas: How to Gain Insight Into Your Customer's Expectations, Align Your Marketing Strategies, and Win More

  • Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

  • The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It

  • The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All

  • Churchill's memoirs

  • Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to save money and build your wealth

  • The Allocator's Edge: A modern guide to alternative investments and the Future of Diversification

  • Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew

  • Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics

  • The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

  • Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics

  • Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World

  • small Giants

  • The Front Office: A Hedge Fund Guide for Retail, Day Traders, and Aspiring Quants

  • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

  • Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher

  • Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

  • The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken

  • Treasure Islands Book by Nicholas Shaxson

  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

  • The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer

  • The Joy of TaxBook by Richard Murphy

  • Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits! 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential

  • Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations

  • Managing up: how to forge an effective relationship with those above you

  • Competing in Internet time: lessons from Netscape

  • Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

  • The Customer-Funded Business: Start, Finance, Or Grow Your Company with Your Customers' Cash

  • The Design Thinking Playbook: Mindful Digital Transformation of Teams, Products, Services, Businesses and Ecosystems

  • The Living Company

  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

  • Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture

  • Hidden Champions of the Twenty-First Century: The Success Strategies of Unknown World Market Leaders

  • The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators

  • FlowBook by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

  • Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries

  • My Life and Work Henry Ford

  • Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers (The Strategyzer series)

  • The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

  • A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

  • Robert Kuok: A Memoir

  • Seven years to seven figures

  • Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies

  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

  • The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company

  • The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources

  • Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

  • The Socratic Dialogues

  • Titan: Inside India’s Most Successful Consumer Brand

  • The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

  • The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

  • The Art of Manipulation: The Best Techniques Used to Manipulate

  • Thing explainer

  • Managing The Professional Service Firm

  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

  • Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You

  • The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

  • Building wealth one house at a time

  • Thinking Physics

  • The Lean startup

  • Vagabonding

  • The Art of Speculation Phill Carrett

  • A Money Mind at 90

  • One up on Wall Street

  • Poor Charlie's Almanack

  • Men and Rubber

  • The elements of investing

  • Robert Charlton, How to retire early

  • The Compound Effect

  • The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking

  • Early retirement extreme

  • Common stocks and uncommon profits

  • The super investors of Graham and Doddsville

  • Conscience Capital by John Mackey

  • How Asia works

  • Irrational exuberance

  • The black swan

  • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

  • Power vs Force by David R. Hawkins

  • The Manual of Ideas

  • The analysis and use of financial statements

  • Where are the Customers' Yachts?: Or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

  • The Warren Buffett Portfolio, by Robert G. Hagstrom

  • Tao of Charlie Munger

  • Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing

  • The resilient Farmer

  • Expectations of Investing Michael Mobassen

  • Robert A Haugen, New Finance, The (4th Edition)

  • The little book that Beats the Market

  • The Business Model Navigator: 55 Models That Will Revolutionize Your Business

  • 100 to 1 in the Stock Market: A Distinguished Security Analyst Tells How to Make More of Your Investment Opportunities

  • The Essays of Warren Buffett

  • Jeffery C Hooke, Security Analysis on Wall Street: A Comprehensive Guide to Today's Valuation Methods

  • Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values

  • The most important thing, Howard marks

  • A Modern Approach to Graham and Dodd Investing

  • Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor

  • A few lessons for investors and managers: from Warren E. Buffett

  • Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

  • The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty

  • Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success

  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

  • Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history

  • F Wall Street: Joe Ponzio's No-Nonsense Approach to Value Investing For the Rest of Us

  • The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market

  • An Intelligent Guide to Australian Property Development

  • Australian residential property development: a step by step guide

  • The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy.

  • Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger

  • Guerrilla game

  • Good stocks cheap

  • The Theory of Justice

  • Anti Fragile

  • All I want to know is where I am going to die so I'll never go there

  • Tipping Point. How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference?

  • The Third WaveBook by Alvin Toffler

  • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

  • There is always something to do, Peter Cundill

  • The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

  • Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports

  • Why we sleep

  • The Warren Buffett way

  • The essential Buffett

  • The money game

  • Financial Shenanigans

  • What I learned losing a million dollars

  • Investing: The Last Liberal Art

  • Warren Buffett’s Ground Rules

  • Guns, germs and steel

  • The Selfish Gene

  • Darwin's blind spot

  • Blue ocean strategy

  • The theory of investment value

  • The systems Bible

  • Master CEOs: Insights from Australia’s Leading CEOs

  • This is marketing

  • Modern Monopolies and What it takes to Dominate the 21st Century

  • Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

  • The Innovator's Dilemma

  • Plain Talk by ken iverson

  • The Contrarian Guide to Leadership

  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

  • Guerilla marketing by Jay Conrad

  • Business Adventures by John Brooks

  • Porter's generic strategies

  • Value-based view vs resource-based view

  • A few lessons from Sherlock Holmes

  • The Myth of Capitalism by Jonathan Tepper

  • The Deals that changed the World

  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

  • Business Adventures by John Brooks

  • Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed

  • Tom Peter's Mackenzie consulted ( not a book title)

  • Passion for excellence

  • Search for excellence,

  • peter l. bernstein capital ideas

  • The theory of investment value

  • The joys of compounding

  • Quality of Earnings by Thornton L. O'glove