50+ great books on individual , important historical events

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:57:45 -0500

A good way to read history is to read histories of individual events - the rich details in these books are a refreshing change from sweeping histories.

50 great books all 10 year olds must read

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:36:30 -0500

By 10, a kid ought to love the idea of reading - exploring worlds, repeating distinct/intriguing words, prases and quotes, and begin to grasp the sheer enorm

100 great books for all 5-year-old kids

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:14:06 -0500

Also, see the previous post on great books for 3-year olds.

30 great books you should read to your 3-year-old kid

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:09:27 -0500

These books will make you kid interested in the world around her/him, pick up some good habits, and develop some essential reading skills ( a love for books

30+ great books you should read to a 2-year-old kid

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:07:55 -0500

The best books for 2-year old kids great pictures with exciting microcopy (minimal text). The idea is to get them into a world of pictuers a

30 memoirs everyone should read

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 05:06:32 -0500

I have excluded memoirs by politicians (except Churchill) and bureacucrats as they can be fictional, the kind of fiction that hides big truths and glorifies

Management Lessons from What They Dont Teach You In Harvard Business School

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:43:59 -0500

Mark H. Mc Cormark, the founder of IMG, the sports management company wrote the popular book, 'What They Dont Teach You In Harvard Business School'. T

100 Guerilla Marketing Weapons

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:25:46 -0500

This is a summary of Guerilla Marketing written by Jay Conrad Lewinson. Use these guerrilla marketing weapons for promoting yo

Summary: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:24:07 -0500

Written by Al Ries and Jack Trout, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing is one of the most popular books on marketing. A quick summary:

Life Lessons from The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Balthasar Gracian

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:12:11 -0500

In 1637, a Jesuit Monk called Balthasar Gracian wrote a book, Oraculo manual y arte de prudencia , also called The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The best of Dale Carnegie: Lessons from his three great books

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:09:56 -0500

How to Win Friends and Influence People: Dale Carnegie's summary of his famous book

How To Handle People

Self improvement lessons from Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fullfillment

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:34:06 -0500

George Leonard wrote this classic book on self-improvement, which, more than any other book focused on the details, what it really taks to master life.

Writing lessons from Writing to Deadline - The Journalist at Work

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:58:43 -0500

Written by Donald Murray, this is one of the most practical books on the craft of writing. Some key lessons:

The Craft of a Reporter

Communication lessons from Secrets of the world's greatest business communicators

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:54:37 -0500

Carmine Gallo, a noted dexpert and writer on communication tips and tricks, has written an extremely relevant and practical book on communication. Key lesson

Entrepreneurship lessons from Startup Nation

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:50:42 -0500

Written by Jeff Sloan and Rich Sloan, Startup Nation is an extremely useful, all-in-one guidebook for entrepreneurs everywhere. Key lessons from the book:

Happiness lessons from Learned Optimism

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:39:02 -0500

Martin Seligman has written one of the most useful, practical books about achieving happiness in life.

Lessons:

1. Lear

Happiness lessons from The Pursuit of Happiness

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:35:40 -0500

David G. Myers Ph.D. is the author of The Pursuit of Happiness, one of the most important books on happiness in life.

Lessons from the book:

Summary of Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:30:50 -0500

1. You can't motivate people. Al you can do is set up conditions to maximize the chances that they develop a genuine interest in what they'r

Insights from Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:28:28 -0500

Dan Ariely's book is one of the most important books of all time on human behavior.

Select insights from the book:

WHY

Negotiation lessons from Getting Past No

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:22:32 -0500

Written by William Ury, Getting past NO Negotiating Your Way from Confrontation to Cooperation is the reference book dealing about Win/Win in diffi

Negotiation lessons from Getting to Yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:18:58 -0500

This is the classic book on Negotiation by Roger Fisher and William Ury. A summary:

Don't argue over positions. Some reasons why:

Networking lessons from Never Eat Alone

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:09:32 -0500

Never Eat Alone was written by master networker Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz.

Important lessons from the extremely useful book:

Networking Secrets from How to work a room

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:06:10 -0500

This useful book on personal networking was written by Susan RoAne.

Important lessons from the book:

1. Be aware of neg

Sales secrets from Secrets of Great Rainmakers

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:58:33 -0500

This popular sales tips tricks books was written by by Jeffrey J. Fox.

Key lessosn from the book:

What is a great

Selling lessons from How to sell a lobster

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:53:49 -0500

This important book on selling well was written by Bill Bishop.

Key lessons:

Start to think like a customer. I

Selling lessons from How I Raised myself from failure to success in selling

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:50:29 -0500

This influential book was written by by Frank Bettger in the 1950s.

The Greatest Secret in Selling
Show people what th

Selling lessons from Secrets of Closing the Sale

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:48:26 -0500

This all-time popular book on selling was written by Zig Ziglar. Key lessons from the book:

Five reasons people will not buy from you.

Insights from The Art of Choosing

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:33:46 -0500

Sheena S. Iyengar's book in on the lines of The Paradox of choice, The Winner's Curse and Predictably Irrational.

The only notable in

Lessons from The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:30:13 -0500

Barry Schwartz's book is one of the most influential books on the topic of choices. In this book, Schwartz uses insights from modern psychology to explore th

Insights from Identity Economics

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:25:41 -0500

In this classic book, George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton write about decisions that shape our lives often hinge on our perceived place in society, not

Pricing lessons from Priceless

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:22:50 -0500

William Poundstone's book is about the psychology of pricing.

Insights from the book:

1. Prada stores carry a few obsc

Insights from Soccernomics

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:19:24 -0500

This book is a useful, inspired knowck off on Freakonomics. Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski wrote it.

Insights:

1. In

Insights from SuperFreakonomics

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:17:03 -0500

This book is the spin-off from the phenomenally successful Freakonimocs by the same authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

On

Business lessons from How the Mighty Fall

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:14:08 -0500

Jim Collins, who wrote Good to Great and Built to Last has now written about what hapoens when things do not go

Life lessons from Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:09:47 -0500

Daniel H. Pink's book is an extension of his TED talk on the same topic. Highlights from this book:

People would prefer activities whe

Life Lessons from A Gift to My Children

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:07:07 -0500

Jim Rogers, the legendary investor wrote this small book of insights, in form of an open letter to his daughters.

1. Question everything, neve

Blogging lessons from Naked Conversations

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:03:54 -0500

Naked Conversations, written by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel was on eof the first primers on blogging. Some favorite lessons from the book:

<

Career lessons from Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:59:36 -0500

Steven Berglas's (he is an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Medical school) remarkable book is a must read for all of us invoilved in some rat race or anoth

Economics lessons from Freefall

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:57:17 -0500

In Freefall, Joseph E. Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist describes the flawed theories and misguided policies that brought about the meltdown of 20

Insights from The Big Questions

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:54:57 -0500

Steven E. Landsburg wrote The Big Questions and in it he uses physics, mathematics and economics to answer the eternal questions of philosophy.

Online marketing lessons from Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:50:17 -0500

Avinash Kaushik's book is a simple step-by-step guide for putting in a successful web analytics strategy.

Kaushik lays out the three main s

Management lessons from Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:48:03 -0500

James Womack and Daniel T. Jones wrote this essential management book in 1996. They define lean way of thinking as something that allows companies to &ld

Insights from Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:44:27 -0500

Nancy F. Koehn, a professor at Harvard Business School professor writes about six entrepreneurs and the great brands they built. She shows how these founders

Social marketing lessons from Citizen Marketers - When People Are the Message

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:40:39 -0500

Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell wrote this influential about the rising power of consumer voice in today's internet age (expecially the social media aspect) an

Career lessons from Career Warfare

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:35:00 -0500

David F. DAlessandro, the author of Career Warfare gives 10 Rules for Building a Successful personal Brand and Fighting to keep it:

Career lessons from What the CEO Wants You to Know

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:27:00 -0500

Ram Charan's book is an essential read for all seeking a path up the tough business career ladder.

Highlights:

What th

Management lessons from The One Minute Manager

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:24:20 -0500

Kenneth Blanchard Ph.D. and Spencer Johnson M.D.wrote this classic, slim volume on business management made easy.

A summary:

Marketing lessons from Naked Marketing -

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:21:57 -0500

Robert Grede wrote this useful marketing guide in 1997.

Highlights:

What is marketing?
the

Business strategy lessons from Co-Opetition

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:56:54 -0500

In this provoking book from the 1990s, Adam J. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff say that business is a game where you are sometimes competing and some

Management lessons from Crisis Marketing - When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:54:16 -0500

Joe Marconi's book is a timeless, simple resource for all businesses, especially important during these media-saturated web 2.0 times. Highlights:

Trend insights from Clicking - 16 Trends to Future Fit Your Life, Your Work and Your Business

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:51:52 -0500

Written in the 1990s by Faith Popcorn and Lys Marigold, Clicking may be old by noew, but some trends presented in the book still make for interestin

Consulting Business lessons from Flawless Consulting

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:47:28 -0500

Peter Block wrote this classic book for everone in the consulting/freelance business.

A quick look at the highlights from the book:

Management lessons from Focus

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:42:12 -0500

Al Ries wrote this classic book in 1996. Highlghts from the book:

The five steps that big retail operations have taken in becoming ret

Lessons from The Laws of Choice - Predicting Customer Behavior

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:39:15 -0500

Eric Marder wrote this book much before consumer behavior books atarted coming in like anything during this decade.

Highlights from the book:

Marketing lessons from The End of Marketing As We Know It

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:36:17 -0500

Sergio Zyman, the former head of marketing at Coca Cola wrote this popular marketing book back in 1999.

His main point in the book: Ma

Selling lessons from Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:33:12 -0500

Paco Underhill wrote the influential book that every mall store designer reads. highlights from this influential and illuminating book that was written in 19

Marketing lessons from Laws of Branding

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:28:53 -0500

Susannah Hart and John Murphy are the editors of this 1998 book about brands and the branding process:

Highlights:
- 95% of new produc

Selling lessons from Ice to the Eskimos - How to Sell a Product Nobody Wants

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:26:08 -0500

Jon Spolestra's book is another must-read book on selling and was written in 1997.

Highlights from the book:

Service Marketing lessons from Selling the Invisible - A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:21:52 -0500

Harry Beckwith, IMHO has written the ultimate book on selling services in 1997. Main lessons from the book:

Selling services is fundam

Selling lessons from Little Red Book of Selling

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:18:45 -0500

Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling is in the same league as Zig Zagler's book or the Rainmakers book.

Highlights:<

Investing and sundry life lessons from Charlie Munger

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:16:06 -0500

Who doesn't know Charlie Munger, who works along side the sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet?

1. What is elementary, worldly wisdom?

Management lessons from The Nature of managerial work

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:13:06 -0500

Henry Mintzberg's 'The Nature of managerial work' is a classic book on management whoich is required reading in MBA programs everywhere. So, what is

Insights from The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:10:13 -0500

Virginia Postrel ha written one of the pionnering works on the changing consumer behavior in this technology age.

Aesthetics is someth

Marketing lesons from The Marketing Playbook

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:05:27 -0500

The Marketing Playbook was written by Richard Tong John Zagula, where they distilled lessons from their years at Microsft and how they helped Microsoft

Design lessons from Design of Everyday Things

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:03:15 -0500

Donald A. Norman wrote the seminal book on design, Design of Everyday Things. In this book, the author has covered all common uses - Tech gadgets, h

Summary: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:00:45 -0500

Laura and Al Ries wrote The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding in 2002. Highlights:

1. The Law of Expansion: The power of

Self improvement lessons from the 80/20 Principle - The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:57:22 -0500

Richard Koch is the author of this book, which is based on the famous Pareto principle of Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist - focusing on 20% most im

Self improvement lessons from The 80 - 20 Individual

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:54:58 -0500

Richard Koch's 80 - 20 Individual is the second of his 80/20 trilogy, where the author shows how to apply the 80/20 principle for pers

Management lessons from First Break all the rules

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:52:54 -0500

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman wrote 'First Break all the rules'.

Highlights from the book:

What Great Man

Management lesson from Parkinson's Law

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:49:29 -0500

Cyril Northcote Parkinson first coined Parkinson's Law in The Economist in 1955. Later he put it in his book Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Pro

Management lessons from The Dilbert Principle

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:47:38 -0500

The Dilbert Principle owes its formulation to the popular Dilbert cartoons by Scott Adams and it came into prominence in the 1990s. Scott Adams also wrote a

Management lessons from the Peter Principle

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:45:33 -0500

Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull wrote the always funny The Peter Principle in 1969 book, where they postulated that In a Hierarchy

Strategy lessons from The Art of War

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:43:09 -0500

Having 13 chapters in total, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, The Art of War is an all-time classic Chinese military treatise writ

Management lessons from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:39:14 -0500

Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox wrote The Goal, where they gave used real life situations to write a business fiction, and in the process making us

Future proofing lessons from The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:37:37 -0500

Peter Schwartz wrote The Art of the Long View where he shows how scenarios from the oil industry can be applied to other areas of life. Schwartz tec

The Writing Wisdom of William Zinsser

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:35:37 -0500

William Zinsser wrote the all-time popular book, On Writing Well. Here are some choice quotes from the book:

On the writing process: <

Lessons from You Are Not a Gadget

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:32:10 -0500

Like Nicholas Carr, Jaron Lanier takes a sceptical look at the 'negative' effects of usage of technology in our daily life. In short, Lanier, a virtual-reali

Insights from Is Google Making Us Stupid?

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:29:41 -0500

Nicholas Carr, who wrote Is Google Making Us Stupid? is well known for asking the questions that no one is about the effets of computers, internet et all on

Social Media Lessons from The Whuffie Factor

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:27:19 -0500

Tara Hunt wrote The Whuffie Factor. The concept of Whuffie was first put forth by Cory Doctorow in his book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In sh

Social Media Lessons from Groundswell

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:24:19 -0500

Groundswell was written by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester and has become one of the most influential book about usining social media for business

New Media Lessons from the Cluetrain Manifesto

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:46:23 -0500

Written by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger in 1999, the Cluetrain Manifesto is perhaps the Internet's most

Lessons from 12 bad habits

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:26:36 -0500

The 12 Bad Habits is written by James Waldroop and Tomothy Butler. Think of it as a companion piece to The seven habits of effective people.<

Three Lessons from The Black Swan - The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:24:05 -0500

Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote this book about randomness and uncertainty, which Taleb says are a single idea. The basic idea in the Black Swan is not to attemp

The Important Lesson from Fooled by Randomness

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:22:23 -0500

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, of the Black Swan fame wrote Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. This book

12 Management Lessons from Rework

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:19:51 -0500

Rework is the second successful book by the guys at 37 signals. Earlier, Get

58 Lessons on Web Development from Getting Real

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:17:07 -0500

37Signals have made a name for themselvs with their minimalistic, no-nonsense appraoch to web application development and business in general. They have dist

Timeless Productivity lessons from The Power of Less

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:12:51 -0500

Leo Babauta wrote The Power of Less. He is also a successful blogger and he sort of embodies the dictum Actions speak louder than words.

Success lessons from Outliers - The Story of Success

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:08:52 -0500

Malcolm Gladwell put forth the famous 10000 hours rule in this remarkable book about success and its origins - Is success only about ability

Time management lessons from the Pomodoro Technique

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:03:50 -0500

In Staffan Nteberg's Pomodoro Technique, he lays out the technique of working in 25-minute chunks.

A summary:

100+ Productivity Lessons from the 4-Hour Work Week

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:59:15 -0500

Although I am always for the credo of hard work, I have to give Tim his due about his ideas on making life and work smarter. The book takes a refreshing look

Self Improvement Lessons from Maximum Achievement

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:58:37 -0500

Brian Tracy, the author of Maximum Achievement, is a noted self-help expert, having written a number of popular books on the very topic.

Web 2.0 lessons from Here Comes Everybody

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:53:15 -0500

Clay Shirky is a noted internet guru and has written extensively about the nature of the participatory internet. Here are some lessons from his recent book <

Business lessons from Reality Check

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:47:40 -0500

Guy Kawasaki's latest book is Reality Check, which contains a choice of his popular blog posts on startups and marketing.

Career Lessons from Recession-Proof Graduate

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:44:47 -0500

Recession-Proof Graduate is written by Charlie Hoehn and is an essential read for gradutaes everywhere on becoming employable in this tough new post-subprime

Lessons from The Wisdom of Crowds

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:38:50 -0500

James Surowiecki, a writer at the famous New Yorker magazine, was the first to highlight how people power can work together on the internet. James showed

Web 2.0 lessons from CrowdSourcing

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:34:34 -0500

Jeff Howe, a writer at influential technology magazine Wired has written the essential guide to using people power on the net to create a community and do gr

Participation lessons from Wikinomics

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:30:00 -0500

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams wrote the definitive book on the principles that made Wikipedia what is today and the lessons as applied to business in gen

Lessons on making choices from The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:27:06 -0500

Barry Schwartz wrote one of the most influential books on the art, no, science of maing choices. Read this alongwith the guide to Nudge.

More Investing lessons from The Investor's Manifesto

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:22:04 -0500

William J. Bernstein wrote the Investor's Manifesto and over time it it has become one of the classic books on maing money from money.

Investing lessons from The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:18:32 -0500

Like the Investor's manifesto, this book from Daniel R. Solin is a classic on making reasoned and well-informed investing choices.

Money lessons form Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:15:26 -0500

This is a classic personal finance guide, whicch everyone must read. As F. Scott Fitzerald said, The rich are not like us.

Self improvement lessons from The Magic of Thinking Big

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:12:58 -0500

This book is sort of a self-help bible for many. A quick guide:

Belief - the I'm positive I can attitude - genera

Lessons from The Art of Project Management

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:01:46 -0500

Scott Berkun has forged a name for himself as a speaker, blogger and master on various productity topics. The Art of Project Management has become t

Marketing lessons from The Profit Zone by Adrian Slywotzky

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:56:54 -0500

This book is from the author of the famous Art of Profitability and offers more advice on marketing and making money on your business.

Lessons from Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:52:23 -0500

Counter-intuitive lessons about management. Highly recommended for managers and leaders, but also teachers and parents.

Meet each situation ar

Self improvement lessons from What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:48:21 -0500

Highlights from Marshall Goldsmith's interesting read, which is full of 'off the nomal path' bits of wisdom:

The 20 Habits th

Career lessons from Linchpin by Seth Godin

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:06:43 -0500

Seth Godin uses ideas from economics history, neuroscience, paleoanthropology and industrial/business history to convince modern-day employees (especially p

Web designing lessons from Dont Make Me Think by Steve Krug

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:18:23 -0500

Don't Make Me Think is a useful book about human computer interaction and web usability. A quick look at key lessons from the book:

[From the

Management lessons from Blue Ocean Strategy

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:10:23 -0500

A notable recent on business strategy tips and trivks is Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Rene Mauborgne of The Blue Ocean Strategy Institute a

Productivity lessons from Eat that Frog: 21 Ways to stop Procrastination and get More Done in Less Time

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:04:21 -0500

Eat that Frog is one those fashionable productivity book that everyone lkeeps talking about. There are lots of productivity acronyms, quotes and aphorisms i

Management lessons from What Would Google Do?

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:55:07 -0500

Noted blogger and an experienced hand in the media business Jeff Jarvis wrote What Would Google Do?, focusing on business and management lessons from the suc

Decison making lessons from Nudge

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:51:52 -0500

Written by Richard H. Thaler Cass R. Sunstein, who are economists (Cass Sunstein heads the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs), N

Lessons from 'How We Decide' by Jonah Lehrer

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:47:55 -0500

'How We Decide' is on the lines of social behavior books like Malcolm Gladwell's 'Blink' and also about the relationship between reason and intuition. Unlike

12 Life Lessons from 'Whatever You Think Think the Opposite' by Paul Arden

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:46:09 -0500

'Whatever You Think Think the Opposite' is full of refreshing, often irreverent but true insights about career and self management. Paul Arden wrote some no

Lessons from The Long tail by Chris Anderson

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:41:35 -0500

The Long Tail is another all-time popular book by Chris Anderson of Wired magazine who writes about the possibility of markets for everything, hiwever small

Management lesons from Good To Great by Jim Collins

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:32:36 -0500

In Good To Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Dont, author Jim Collins and his team explore what goes into a company

Lessons from Simplicity by Edward De Bono

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:15:41 -0500

Edward De Bono , famous for his concepts of lateral thinking and six thinking hats, is also the author of Simplicity, an important about the importance and p

25 New Media Lessons from Futuretainment by Mike Walsh

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:08:25 -0500

Futuretainment, written by Mike Walsh is an important about the changing media landscape. Here are the main points from this insight-filled bok:

13 Life Lessons from Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:02:45 -0500

Gary Vaynerchuk became famous for using socila media fully to build his brand of wine selling. Most importantly, he showed us it was important for us to be g

Life Lessons from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:59:57 -0500

In The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin Sharma tells a fable about a famous criminal lawyer who changes into a spiritual sage. Through his story, Sharma illu

Economics Lessons from Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:57:37 -0500

Freakonomics is another all-time popular book about the intersection of economics and social behavior.

[From the
Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:42:31 -0500

We all know this fact by now - Our brain is made of two systems: the rationale and the emotional. When these two systems are in alignment, change happens qui

Lessons from All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:46:16 -0500

Seth talks about marketing has changed. It is no longer just about buying 60 seconds of airtime. Earlier, marketers sold commodities that people needed by pr

Business lessons from Small is the New Big by Seth Godin

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:45:37 -0500

Small is the new big contains a choice of pithy but incisive blog post from Seth Godin's blog.

[From the Great Books Series. Also see The S

Marketing Lessons from Permission Marketing

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:42:19 -0500

Seth Godin says that we are continually bombarded with ads and solicitations that compete for our limited time and attention span. As time is our most precio

14 Management Lessons from The Toyota Way

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:41:18 -0500

Toyota Moturs made a dominating position in the Global automotive industry by fine-tuning some remarkable management and production methods, which have been

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Negotiation lessons from Getting to Yes: Negotiating agreement without giving in

Networking lessons from Never Eat Alone

Networking Secrets from How to work a room

Sales secrets from Secrets of Great Rainmakers

Selling lessons from How to sell a lobster

Selling lessons from How I Raised myself from failure to success in selling

Selling lessons from Secrets of Closing the Sale

Insights from The Art of Choosing

Lessons from The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

Insights from Identity Economics

Pricing lessons from Priceless

Insights from Soccernomics

Insights from SuperFreakonomics

Business lessons from How the Mighty Fall

Life lessons from Drive - The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Life Lessons from A Gift to My Children

Blogging lessons from Naked Conversations

Career lessons from Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout

Economics lessons from Freefall

Insights from The Big Questions

Online marketing lessons from Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

Management lessons from Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

Insights from Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust

Social marketing lessons from Citizen Marketers - When People Are the Message

Career lessons from Career Warfare

Career lessons from What the CEO Wants You to Know

Management lessons from The One Minute Manager

Marketing lessons from Naked Marketing -

Business strategy lessons from Co-Opetition

Management lessons from Crisis Marketing - When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies

Trend insights from Clicking - 16 Trends to Future Fit Your Life, Your Work and Your Business

Consulting Business lessons from Flawless Consulting

Management lessons from Focus

Lessons from The Laws of Choice - Predicting Customer Behavior

Marketing lessons from The End of Marketing As We Know It

Selling lessons from Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping

Marketing lessons from Laws of Branding

Selling lessons from Ice to the Eskimos - How to Sell a Product Nobody Wants

Service Marketing lessons from Selling the Invisible - A Field Guide to Modern Marketing

Selling lessons from Little Red Book of Selling

Investing and sundry life lessons from Charlie Munger

Management lessons from The Nature of managerial work

Insights from The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness

Marketing lesons from The Marketing Playbook

Design lessons from Design of Everyday Things

Summary: The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding

Self improvement lessons from the 80/20 Principle - The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less

Self improvement lessons from The 80 - 20 Individual

Management lessons from First Break all the rules

Management lesson from Parkinson's Law

Management lessons from The Dilbert Principle

Management lessons from the Peter Principle

Strategy lessons from The Art of War

Management lessons from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Future proofing lessons from The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

The Writing Wisdom of William Zinsser