Please find below a list of our recent book recommends feature on the show:
Saturday 29th May 2010:
Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly by John Kay
· Decision making and decision taking.
· World is too complex for simple solutions.
The naked millionaire, David Taylor
· Workbook to happiness?
How would you move Mount Fuji?: William Poundstone
· Game theory and decision making
· 8 billiard balls, one is more heavy. How many times do you need to use the weighing scales?
Art of War, Tsun Tszu
· Chih, chin.
· Strategic advantage
· Waking up to a different world
Drive, Daniel Pink
· Motivation 1.0, motivation 2.0, motivation 3.0
· What science knows and business does
· What is your sentence
Body language, Allan Pearse
· The art of body language
· Video phones and body language
· Increasing shyness levels
Saturday 20th March 2010
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It, by Michael E. Gerber
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath,
Inside Steve’s brain, Leander Kahney
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith Mark Reiter
Linchpin, Seth Godin
The art of strategy, A games theorists guide to success in business and life, Dixit and Nalebuff
Saturday 6th February:
Tim Ferris, 4 hour workweek, revised edition
Entrepreneur who build a business model that allowed him to work for 4 hours a week, allowing him to pursue his hobbies. Relevant to SMEs when examining their own business model. Key question is whether they are working for the business, or business working for them.
Revised edition has stories of people following his example.
Seth Godin, Linchpin, are you indispensable?
In his best-known book, Purple Cow <http://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-New-Transform-Remarkable/dp/1591843170> , Seth’s message was, “Everyone’s a marketer now.” In All Marketers Are Liars <http://www.amazon.com/All-Marketers-Liars-Preface-Works/dp/1591843030> , his message was, “Everyone’s a storyteller now.” In Tribes <http://www.amazon.com/Tribes-We-Need-You-Lead/dp/1591842336> , his message was, “Everyone’s a leader now.” In Linchpin it is “Everyone’s an artist now.”
An artist is not just some person who messes around with paint and brushes, an artist is somebody who does “emotional work”. Work that you put your heart and soul into. Work that matters. Work that you gladly sacrifice all other alternatives for.
He challenges the readers, to become linchpins ourselves. To make the leap. To become artists. To do emotional work, whatever the sacrifice may be.
Bookbuzz book of the month Alan Weisman, The world without us Man’s removal from the planet. Our impact on the planet and what happens if we are no longer there. Everything is in constant decay, which is hidden by maintanance. Houses gone within 100 years as an example. Manhattan will be a river. Relevance to business is question of what we are actually building and our legacy.
Warren Berger, Glimmer
Has been a wave of books on design. Relevance in designing business models and design as a marketing tool (more important in a social media driven world –> marketing power is not enough). Gives tips and interesting viewson design:
- get lost in the woods
- visual stimuli will increase bilolionfold –> need to design information
- scetch
- innovation as the new black
- design as the art of science
- increasing experience quotient
- designing happiness
Tells for example the story of the 100 dollar computer by Necroponte.
Jack Trout, Repositioning, marketing in an era of competition, change and crisis.
From the writer who wrote the classic; “Positioning, the battle for your mind”. Great book going back to the basics of marketing.
- Explosion of choice and competition
- Stick to your knitting
- People don’t like choice
- Speed of change
- Small is good
- End of long term planning
- Prestige is out, value is in
- Promotions do not leave a memory trace
- Change=resistance
- Consultants sell complexity
Stories;
- Italian Olive Oil is produced in Greece
- Kiwis were first called Chinese Goosberry
Saturday January 30th-
NurtureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Why kids lie (and what does this have to do with business?)
Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry by Leonore Skenazy (aka The World’s Worst Mom)
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be insanely great in front of any audience, by communications coach Carmine Gallo
Think Again: Why good leaders make bad decisions and how to keep it from happening to you, by Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead and Andrew Campbell
8 biz books among The Times Top 100 books of the decade
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (#93)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond (#60)
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker (#63)
- Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (#54)
- No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein (#50)
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (#44)
- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood (#8),
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (#8).
Hiya, I tuned into a chat on Saturday afternoon and the discussion was about the transition from knowledge to concept economy via social psychology and Drucker (sic). There was a book mentioned which I couldn’t catch the name of and can’t locate on the website.? Can anyone shed light..?
November 16, 2009 at 2:12 pmThat is “a whole new mind” by Pink. Hope this helps.
November 27, 2009 at 3:54 pmThere was a book reviewed on Saturday that i can’t remember the name of. Was it something like “the 59th minute”?? it questioned things like brain storming etc..could you tell me what it’s called? thanks
April 19, 2010 at 9:53 am