Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
I'm a huge Seth Godin fan, but I had just never gotten around to reading The Dip. But on the strength of Shoemoney's recommendation I grabbed a copy, and thoroughly enjoyed it. To synthesize it in a sentence:
Never quit something with great long term potential just because it's unpleasant right ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Seth Godin's latest venture is a members only website he's calling "the tribe."
A tribe for marketers, for leaders, for those focused on building communities or creating products or spreading ideas.
He's asking people to buy his latest book (Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us) as an admission ticket to create ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
It's really difficult to write a good manual for a product like Zen Cart. The chief obstacle to universal acclaim is the fact that the market is highly segregated: newbies who are unlikely to venture beyond modifying simple admin settings are not going to want to the customization details ...
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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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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
A 20 year old classic is brought up to date - The Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gitomer. He's running a special offer today (May 6, 2008) - buy The Sales Bible, email the receipt to salesbible at gitomer.com, and get a free e-Book. Sounds fun!
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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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