 | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $10.73 it's just okay. Chases too many rabbits and not enough on core
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 | Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $5.48 I like to read things that stand the test of time. This is one of them
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 | The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Buy new: $14.27 / Used from: $2.95 Book that helps keep things in perspective. I think almost everyone is familiar with
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 | Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.75 Disappointed I couldn't join one of Seth's Tribes but is about web 2.0 type stuff.
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 | The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $3.12 |
 | Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? by Seth Godin
Buy new: $15.57 / Used from: $4.72 |
 | Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $1.25 First Godin Book and still favorite
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 | Free Prize Inside / Purple Cow by Seth Godin
Buy used from: $8.95 |
 | The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: King Solomon's Secrets to Success, Wealth, and Happiness by Steven K. Scott
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.94 Importance of Diligence in one's life. Little disappointed not enough focus on the "religious" parts of Solomon
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 | The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.58 Hated this book. Thought it was all about outsourcing your life and doing NOTHING with it
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 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.83 Great Book. Now if I could just do a better job of implementing but work life has changed as a result
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 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.95 The power of the "default" option..
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 | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Buy used from: $12.98 Why will you not sell your super bowl ticket once it's in hand, and other behavior that doesn't make sense.
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 | The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.98 Random theory. Some of this was a little over my head but good stuff nonetheless
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 | Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.95 From Forrester so it's kind of "corporate" but it is about social media and I think corporate needs to start getting it or get left behind
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 | Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott
Buy used from: $3.02 Didn't like it as I thought there wasn't a lot new here.
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 | The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.95 really good book that changed my idea of collective intelligence
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 | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Buy new: $9.75 / Used from: $4.99 Another oldie but goodie. He couldn't see the internet age in this book but caters to my disdain for most televison
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 | Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life by Alan Deutschman
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $5.21 Expansion of a fast company article. Is it possible to change? If so how? Spoiler Alert: mainly though accountability
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $4.20 Great book on "eggheads" who think they are smarter than everyone else. Sometimes we should stick with the basics
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 | The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A. J. Jacobs
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $2.96 Non Believers quest to live out the Bible in a literal sense. I thought it was interesting to see from someone who didn't and still doesn't believe
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 | Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith by Rob Bell
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $4.41 While I didn't agree with a lot of this book it really challenged my believes on things
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 | 1776 by David McCullough
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $1.73 Little too long for me but yet it's obvious this country was built on and by special people
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 | Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 by Michael R. Beschloss
Buy used from: $2.90 Only time will be able to judge how presidents did because at the time almost all had their share of controversy.
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 | The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Thomas Kelley
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.40 IDEO is a really neat company. But the book didn't ever really resonate with me.
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 | Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart by Ian Ayres
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $1.79 All about Business Analytics and how geeks can solve all the worlds problems. I liked it but wonder really how many times people can get the correct inputs?
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 | Winning
Buy used from: $9.30 What you would expect from Welch. Not bad but very old school thinking
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 | The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture by John Battelle
Buy used from: $3.58 One of my favorites. How quickly we forget what life was like Pre-google.
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 | On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.60 From the guy who invented the palm trying to rewrite the "book" on AI. Not bad, little to much information on the brain b/c it doesn't interest me as much as it does the author
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 | The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $2.32 I liked it. Galdwell does a good job of trying to come up with what makes things go.
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $6.20 I didn't like this book as I thought it was too much "follow your gut" Not sure I even finished it.
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.94 I've referred to this book several times when trying to figure out how to make an idea memorable
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 | For Men Only: A Straightforward Guide to the Inner Lives of Women by Shaunti Feldhahn
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.94 Great book for trying to understand a wife. I listened to part of this book with my wife and asked her "is this really how you think" when she just laughed I knew I should pay attention
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 | Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $1.99 I like the idea of Focusing on people's strengths and should be done more. However, in practice I think this book isn't really something people could do and was just a "popular" management book.
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 | Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See by Robert Kurson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.18 Fantastic. This author is great at story telling true story of a guy who was blind all his life and his journey to sight
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 | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.83 just amazing story but not a lot of life lessons in it also see Crashing through from same author
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $1.99 Very educational, honestly had no idea what happened when people donated their body to science.
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 | How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $7.00 Under the heading there's nothing new under the Sun these tactics still work today.
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