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  1. Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / January 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Reading this book has sparked posts about Apple’s Path to Success and The Next Steve Jobs, but that’s not what I want to talk about here.  I want to talk about the book itself, rather than Jobs.  It’s a worthwhile topic, I have to admit I was skeptical about reading...
  2. Book Review: Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / December 23, 2011 / Leave a comment
    Michael Lewis learned something when he wrote his previous book, “The Big Short”.  In that book he chronicled the story of a few people who were able to make millions by shorting the housing market just before it crashed.  As he puts it, he suspected they were on to something...
  3. Book Review: Drive! The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 15, 2011 / 1 Comment
    I recently finished reading this Dan Pink book and it is a highly recommended one.  The book touches on some very interesting points throughout but is based on one central thought: People do better work and are more motivated if money is not the force that motivates them… even for...
  4. Book Review: The Lords of Strategy

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / February 8, 2011 / 2 Comments
    I just finished an MBA program, so I expected to know “The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World” (The Subtitle of this book) and I did.  Well, I kind of did.  I was familiar with the experience curve and the value chain and most of the other models...
  5. Book Review: A Whole New Mind

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / January 31, 2011 / 2 Comments
    I recently finished reading A Whole New Mind : Why Right Brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel Pink.  I found this book to be one of those books that really makes a lot of common sense, a little like a Malcolm Gladwell book.  The narrative is both compelling and...
  6. Book Review: Solution Selling

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / January 19, 2011 / 1 Comment
    At the suggestion of my company’s CEO @tonybishop I picked up one of the classics in enterprise IT, Solution Selling by Michael T. Bosworth.  It’s one of those books that you can read quickly because everything in it is pretty intuitive.  After all, we’ve all been told to use “consultative...
  7. Book Review: Richard Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / November 25, 2010 / 3 Comments
    I highly recommend Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class for two key reasons. First, it is a work of sociology that just makes sense, or at least will to most of the readers of this blog.  Florida creates a compelling theory to explain a new class of people...
  8. Book Review: The Ascent of Money

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / August 11, 2010 / Leave a comment
    In spite of Niall Ferguson’s stated in The Ascent of Money to provide a simple explanation of the rise of capital from a promissory note for a bit of grain from the next babylonian harvest to a fiduciary system with central reserve banks, it comes off as more then a bit high...
  9. Book Review: The Facebook Effect

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 26, 2010 / Leave a comment
    I read a lot of nonfiction books (here’s the list), I think this is nonfiction number 14 (overall 15) for me on the year and I’m used to finding ones that are labeled “fast paced” and “easy to read”.  The reality is, few of them live up to that expectation....
  10. Book Review: Driven from Distraction

    Posted by Burgher Jon
    / July 3, 2010 / Leave a comment
    I first received a diagnosis of mild ADD in the 5th grade.  By the time I was in the 5th grade, I was already most of the way to the analytical, introspective person I am today.  I took the diagnosis seriously, I studied the disorder, and I put in place...
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