A Letter to Santa

When was the last time you sat down and wrote a letter to Santa?

Highlights

00:00 Introduction

01:20 Your 12 wishes for Christmas [Leading teams]

03:13 A tradition of writing letters to Santa [Leading you]

04:09 North Pole postal service [Leading organisations]

05:34 Bob’s Book Club: The Tao of Charlie Munger

06:28 Epistolary [Word of the week]

07:08 Final step

07:24 Close

References

Royal Mail at Christmas — instructions for writing letters to Santa

The Tao of Charlie Munger — a short book review that includes 12 best quotes.

Berkshire Hathaway — one of the most successful holding companies in modern times.

Jeff Bezos’s Amazon letters — modelled on Warren Buffett’s letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

Bridget Jones’ Diary — an epistolary novel by Helen Fielding.

The Color Purple — another epistolary novel, by Alice Walker.

Final thoughts

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