management

Book Review: Linchpin by Seth Godin

03.31.2011 work

Seth Godin is primarily a marketing and management guy, so his books don’t often hit the list of books finance and accounting people should read. Which is a shame, because at times I felt like this book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, spoke directly to the financial person in me.

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Rework

04.30.2010 books

These guys seem to have their act together. They run this Chicago company called 37 Signals which is headquartered in my neighborhood. I use a few of their products, albeit sparingly, and they are truly excellent. In fact, after reading this book, I’m going to dig a little deeper into Basecamp and Highrise because maybe [...]

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The Essential Drucker

09.13.2008 books

My familiarity with Drucker is mostly from reading certain excerpts of his stuff as an undergrad. I regret not “getting” the management classes I took in school. I liked pouring through the detailed concepts of finance, economics, and accounting but I didn’t expend the same amount of resources on management. In retrospect, this stunted my [...]

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The Art of the Start

01.18.2007 books

I have been reading a lot of blogs lately and one that I keep coming back to is Guy Kawasaki’s How to Change the World. It has a lot of practical content on entrepreneurship, marketing, and management. Much of it relates to the tech industry because he manages a tech venture fund and is a [...]

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Six Disciplines for Excellence

10.16.2006 books

There are lots of good things that have come out of my hometown of Findlay, OH, in no particular order: Wolfies Nuts Dietsch’s Fine Chocolates Cooper Tires Ben Roethlisberger America’s Fun Fitness Coach That small town America can churn out such manufacturing, culinary, and athletic excellence may come as a surprise to some, but not [...]

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Execution

03.15.2006 books

The subtitle, The Discipline of Getting Things Done, drew me into this book. It’s a common theme these days; David Allen’s book Getting Things Done (GTD) has a cult-like following amongst the internet set, popular websites like Lifehacker and 43F espouse the benefits of GTD and personal productivity, and it has become popular to say [...]

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