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Miami, Florida, May 28, 2009—BusinessSummaries.com releases its brand new business book discussion forum, where book readers can chat, share news, and discuss ideas on favourite business book titles.

BusinessSummaries.com launched an important new feature to its website – a business book discussion forum. It provides a neutral venue for business book readers to freely discuss their favourite business book titles, authors and concepts.

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Business savvy is not something you’re born with, nor is it something you inherit. But as we believe it is the key to business success, we start with the end in mind, defining what it is.

Here’s the thing about adversity: If you can make it your friend, you may find yourself in one of the most powerful and transformative situations that life has to offer. Of course we’d never advocate going out and seeking difficult circumstances in order to develop yourself or further your career, but the fact is setbacks are going to happen – certainly in the business world. An investment can go bad. An important employee or partner could desert you. A counted-on sale may go to your biggest competitor. An important deal with these unexpected misfortunes that separates those who fail from those who attain the top levels of success.

Perhaps it’s a sad fact, but success absolutely does not provide the impetus for improvement that adversity does. Say you just sold a new client, won a promotion or pay raise, or gave a presentation that drew rave reviews. What’s the result – high fives around the office, a pat on the back at home, or a toast over dinner. Sure, you should enjoy the well-deserved accolades, but be wary: In the face of success we can become complacent. It’s far too easy to become too satisfied with our current performance and get a little lax on improving.

In contrast, what happens after a failure or some personal heartache? Ideally we immediately analyze the situation to see what went wrong and we focus on what we could’ve done differently. No one likes to go through adversity, but faced with the right attitude, a difficult setback can be one of our most powerful catalysts for change. Adversity can provide the motivation and the determination to sharpen our skills and regain our focus, and that in turn has a direct positive impact on the creation of business savvy.

You always have a choice. No matter how terrible the setback, you can make the choice to lie back and let adversity consume you, or you can face the situation head-on and work to make adversity your friend. Befriending adversity means not shying from it, but learning from it. It means not letting it defeat you, but laboring to overcome it, and even better, using what you learn from the experience to improve yourself. Those who’ve been tested by the fired of adversity and have passed the test emerge stronger, smarter, and savvier.

But for people with business savvy borne of adversity, there is so much more to the story. The business leaders who’ve benefited from the adversity paradox are the ones who use the diagnostic skill of introspection. They’re the ones with superior work character, who often arrive at the office before everyone else and leave later – and love it. These folks have found a purpose they’re passionate about and have found a way to take the work out of work. They’re the employees who nurture a thirst for knowledge that keeps them constantly abreast of the ever-changing world of business.

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They come to Omaha by the tens of thousands, flocking to an annual meeting that has become legendary for investors, businesspeople, and fans of one of the most savvy capitalists on the planet. They come to eat steak, buy furniture at a discount, and bask in the brilliance of value investor extraordinaire, Warren Buffet.

Hedge fund founder, financial blogger, and professional skeptic Jeff Matthews got his own highly-coveted ticket to the Berkshire Hathaway meeting held only for shareholders and their guests–and proceeded to post reports on his blog, offering tempting glimpses into the much-discussed meeting. Now Matthews delivers a full-length account of his adventures at this infamous financial hoedown.

•    Does Buffett’s famed penny-pinching cripple his companies?
•    Why does Buffet–a bridge partner and best friend of Bill Gates–not own any technology stocks?
•    How does the extremely rational Buffett square his well-known social progressiveness with his lily-white audience of investors?
•    Is Buffet really an “Oracle”?
•    What information, insights, and ideas do the meeting’s attendees pick up-and how do they put this information to use in their own investments?
•    Will Berkshire-Hathaway survive his death?

Matthews also applies his financial acumen to harvesting potent lessons from his experiences that you can use as you survey the investment field, from finding how the world’s greatest investor evaluates not only businesses but the people who run them, to the importance of “just readingand thinking” and the value of having a smart, cynical partner.

Miami, Florida, May 06, 2009 – BusinessSummaries.com, one of the leading e-commerce websites for business book summaries, announces its first ever Mother’s Day promotional offer beginning Wednesday, May 6, through Sunday, May 10, so that individuals all over the world can give book summaries to Mom on her special day.

The promotional offer, which is available to both current subscribers and non-users, features a 2-for-1 deal at a reduced rate of $59.95 for a 1-year subscription.For every $59.95 subscription purchase, the buyer is entitled to a 1 free gift subscription to give away in celebration of Mother’s Day.

Gifts within this price range are proving to be popular this year as people make efforts to save money and focus on more meaningful and usable gifts.

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On the Shoulders of Giants is more then just another book tackling about how to develop a positive attitude or use the law of attraction. This book gives a fresh look at 33 pieces of timeless wisdom which would help you attain what you want most in your life and career within easy reach.

The author brilliantly demonstrates how to make profound shifts in your life, work, finances, health, relationships, and more.

The only thing we have absolute control over is our own mind – our ability to choose our own way. Even in the face of unbelievable atrocities, hope and love are possible if we plant the right seeds in our minds.

This book will help you stop being so good at getting what you don’t want. It will help you see how “Imagineering” a better life is the shortest path to living it and that making simple choices can accelerate your success now.

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