Reading List: The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
The book presents a lot of good observations about how consumers are simply overwhelmed by choices.
Reading List: Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 by Sarah Lacy
The book focuses on the entrepreneurs who created the applications and companies that led the successful transformation. PayPal, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and others are featured in a more personal way that should interest those who did not know these stories beforehand.
Reading List: What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
This is a pretty tight book full of illustrative stories backing his theories of good (and bad) management.
Reading List: Inc. Magazine, “The Business Owner’s Bookshelf – 30 Books You Should Read and Put to Use”
Check out Inc. Magazine’s April 2009 issue, “The Business Owner’s Bookshelf – 30 Books You Should Read and Put to Use.”
Reading List: Vanity Fair, “The Inheritance”
New York Times ownership – “America is not kind to the heir. He tends to be depicted as weak, pampered, flawed, a diluted strain of the hardy founding stock”. The second is that, following many disastrous decisions, while many people hope Sulzberger succeeds, few think he will.
Reading List: Birthright: Murder, Greed, and Power in the U-Haul Family Dynasty by Ronald J. Watkins
With my increased involvement in exit strategy planning for business owners, I have been reading more and more books about closely held companies. I just finished one called Birthright: Murder, Greed, and Power in the U-Haul Family Dynasty. If you enjoy reading about dysfunctional families, self-delusional owners, irresponsible heirs to corporate dynasties and the frustration [...]
Today, more than 50% of the U.S. market and more than 70% of the UK market is controlled by institutions investing the money of regular people.
Reading List: Disrupting ClassDisrupting Class by Clay Christensen, Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson
In this book, he and his co-authors make the case that the entire field of education will be disrupted by computer-aided learning.
Reading List: Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
Hot, Flat and Crowded extends some of the themes from the prior book, such as the rise of the middle class in India, China and Eastern Europe. And he repeats a dire warning about the causes of global warming and the dangerous path the Earth is on.
Reading List: Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis by Paul Muolo and Mathew Padilla
This is one of the first post-mortems of this mess we are now experiencing. It’s a play-by-play of derivatives, syndications, and the spread of toxic paper, made in the U.S.A and exported around the world. If you can stomach it, it’s a comprehensive analysis.
