Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot started the world's first venture capital firm, American Research & Development (ARD). Professor Doriot said,
"I want money to do things that have never been done before."
If reading sentences like this gives you a boner, then now's the time to start your own ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Wow. What a career. We'll miss you, Mr. Buckley.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
The Positivity Blog posted a great summary of Dale Carnegie's most important tips for improving your social skills. By the way, if you haven't read this book yet, it's one of the best selling self-help books of all time - it might be worth your time to give ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
If you want to become successful in business, you must understand people.
If you want to understand people, you must read fiction.
Do you believe these two statements are true? I certainly do. Fiction allows us to experience things we otherwise couldn't - indeed, it allows us to experience things ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Have you read this book yet? It's really a classic - and for a reason, because it dispenses timeless advice that's right on the money, yet is not obvious to most people. If I was to distill the message down to a single point that's relevant to e-business, ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Scott Adams is a genius. Just ask him. If you haven't read his latest book yet, you need to read it immediately; any delay will markedly reduce your quality of life.
Seriously, this semi-autobiographical work by Adams about creating Dilbert, marriage, work and life was good fun and worth the ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
My little book club was lucky enough to talk with Kristy Kiernan, author of the recent book group favorite, Catching Genius. I've always wondered about overnight sensation stories like hers, so we talked about her path to success. Turns out Catching Genius is not a first novel... ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
I really enjoyed reading Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. I actually believe the term stickiness predates Malcolm Gladwell, but he certainly popularized it as a way to describe things people become attached to after trying. For instance,
digital video recorders
checking accounts with electronic bill pay
loyalty ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Gilgamesh is the oldest story in the world - older than the Bible or the Odyssey. It's a heroic saga about a King who lives in Iraq. His own press said, "He endured all and accomplished all," but the truth is more complicated. ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Just listened to Stephen Covey's Four Disciplines of Execution. Classic Covey, no big surprises. The four disciplines are:
Focus on your Wildly Important Goals
Create a compelling scoreboard
Translate lofty goals into specific actions
Hold each other accountable all the time
What differentiates a Covey book from the typical "execution" or "decision-making" tome ...
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