I agree with Howard that cheap tweeting is driving out dear blogging - so I'm combining both in this post with quick recommendations (or not) on some books in 140 characters or less.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Free: The Future of
a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
Free is a must read and lives up to all the hype - goes from strong overview of offline free models through multiple successful online examples
Behind the Cloud by
Marc Benioff
I got an advance look at Marc's upcoming book that tells the history and inside story of how they built a company and a culture that changed an industry
Success Built To
Last: Creating a Life that Matters by Porras, Emery, Thompson
Excellent extension to the original Built To Last focusing more on personal success/significance and related learning from hundreds of interviews
Sway: The
Irresistable Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori and Rom Brafman
Thanks to @joshk for suggesting this one - worth reading and almost as good as my favorite book on the subject Predictably Irrational
Tribes: We Need You
to Lead Us by Seth Godin
Everything Seth Godin writes is worth reading including his latest Tribes. Buy the book, then go to www.sethgodin.com and click on his head
Things I Have
Learned In My Life So Far - Stefan Sagmeister
Artist/designer Sagmeister honestly offers the life maxims he's learned in amazing art form with great stories behind them
MAYBE - IT DEPENDS...
Slide:ology: The Art
and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
Provides great
guidelines and links to sample templates for how to tell a story, not just
deliver slides. Related: also see www.prezi.com.
Black Swan: The
Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Great takeaways on improbable events and the biases in our expectations and perceptions, but a bit too long and drawn out.
The Invention of Air
by Steven Johnson
Fascinating story of discovery, collaboration, connections starting in the late 1700's - they basically had a HomeBrew club 200 yrs. before Jobs/Woz.
The Five Most
Important Questions by Peter Drucker and the Leader to Leader Institute
Each is covered by authors like Jim Collins: What is our Mission? Who is our Customer? What do they Value? What are our Results? What is our Plan?
AVOID
Outliers: The Story
of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
I liked all of his prior books, but this one lacks statistical rigor and he seems to be searching for anecdotes to fit his conclusion - mine is "stay away."
Totally agree w/ Outliers review. The examples seemed way to contrived.
Posted by: Joe Cotellese | November 13, 2009 at 04:29 PM