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The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2007
Stuck at the Bottom?
"Being the Best in the World Is Seriously Underrated"
The Dip is a book dedicated to being the Best. Why settle at being anything else? The book also is very helpful in determining when to quit. Quitting is a part of a success time line. I have been in each of the ...
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The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom
Portfolio Hardcover, 2006
The Starfish and the Spider relevance to Relationship Economics
As succinctly illustrated in Rod Beckstrom's book The Starfish and the Spider, the massively complex and dynamic ecosystems of today's highly matrixed corporations can more effectively adapt to the market dynamics by way of decentralized competency teams. Substantial ...
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Must read to keep up with the times!
Excellent book. I promise you'll learn a lot! Great info to take back to your organization. It provides a different mindset on how to do things and that in itself is worth the read. You'll also be amazed at what companies are doing to stay abreast and be shocked how ...
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How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
Felix Dennis
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Excellent, Inpisrational, Provocative
I opened this one with skepticism (It was a gift). I was so pleasantly surprised by its conversational tone and great humor. I am not sure that the author is all he claims to be as a businessman but he is also unapologetic, self-deprecating and funny. He inspired me ...
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Dan Roam
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
SIMPLE DRAWINGS MAKE SENSE
This insightful book says that any problem can be solved using a simple drawing. The author warns against saying you cannot draw, because he says anyone can draw the simple stick figure drawings he suggests. Roam reminds us that visual information is much more ...
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
If you're looking at this page this far ahead of publication, you're probably a member of Seth Godin's tribe. And if so, you already know what this book is about. You know about waiting in line at an Apple store, or the look on a fellow Deadhead's face. You know about the way it feels to go back to the church where you grew up. You know ...
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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2003
Short, Sweet, and Accessible
At the heart of this book is the notion of "Moore's idea diffusion curve". It's just a bell-curve that shows innovators (sneezers), early adopters, early/late majority, and laggards. The central theme of the book is that you need to target the front of that curve by ...
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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Guy Kawasaki
Portfolio Hardcover, 2004
Great book for startups
I had a chapter preview of this book before I purchased it. Guy was able to cover a lot of necessary ground for startups and some things that he has learned along the way with various startups and his current venture capital company, Garage.com.
I was able to glean ...
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The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
Bob Burg, John David Mann
Portfolio Hardcover, 2007
Finding Direction
I am turning 60 next month and quite excited to be doing so. I wanted to read something new to give me a new perspective. Go Giver is well written and inciteful. I purchased 4 copies and have sharred with my friends. Buy this and you will for sure read more than ...
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The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Donald R. Keough
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Recommended Fast Read
Warren Buffett said he admires Don Keough and recommended reading anything he writes. When this book was published, I followed his advice and read it. I was not disappointed. This was a quick read that left me wanting more material from Don Keough.
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Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It: No Schedules, No Meetings, No Joke--the Simple Change That Can Make Your ...
Cali Ressler, Jody Thompson
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
The Ideas to Help Start a Revolution at Work
I've seen a number of reviews that say, in a nutshell, "The book doesn't tell me HOW to do this". This book was not meant to tell you how -- it was meant to get you thinking, talking, sharing and collaborating with your co-workers and management to take action in your ...
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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync?
Seth Godin
Portfolio Hardcover, 2007
Thinking Through Your Decisions
One thing about Seth's books is they always get me to thinking, and re-thinking. This time, I'm thinking about marketing in today's crazy upside-down new world. Every entrepreneur worth her/his salt should be thinking through their decisions about adopting new ...
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Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
Paul B. Carroll, Chunka Mui
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
How to avoid the mistakes that lead to the majority of business failures . Most executives shudder at the word “failure” and try to avoid thinking about it. No wonder there are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui think ...
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Inside Steve's Brain
Leander Kahney
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Inside Steve Jobs' successes at Apple
Knowing my bias for all things Apple and my interest in Steve Jobs, a friend and colleague alerted me to this book last week. He was certain I'd appreciate it. He was right.
The book is about the way Steve Jobs thinks, how he operates, how he built Apple, his ...
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Good Is Not Enough: And Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals
Keith R. Wyche
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Great career advice for young business professionals
This is a book that provides great career advice for young business professionals given as an experienced and supportive mentor might provide. Keith Wyche (and Sonia Alleyne) have written this for minorities, but I think almost all of it is fabulous advice for anyone ...
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