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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...