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Just added these to my bookshelf…

The 4-Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferris
Interesting, some challenging ideas. Been reading this for about two days, its started falling apart because the spine glue melted in the sauna today, oops.

iWoz - Steve Wozniak (w/ Gine Smith)
Brilliant, inspiring, revealing. Amazing guy and a really down to earth, high flyer of a book.

Mavericks At Work - William C Taylor & Polly LaBarre
Been on this one since about February, not my fastest read, its good to pick up and put down and it lives on my breakfast table for that start-of-the-day inspirational read.

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Bought 3 new books this weekend. Just popped out to get a book as a Christmas Present for a friend and walked out with two for myself:
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
We Are Smarter Than Me - Barry Libert & Jon Spector
Small Is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs,… - Seth Godin

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Just purchased a new book, Smart Start-ups, by David Silver (founder of Santa Fe Capital Group and author of over 30 books on entrepreneurship and finance).

A quote from the cover jacket…

“Online communities like MySpace and YouTube are shaking up the business world and helping millions of people come together to share information and interests. These social networking sites rely on user generated content to bring together millions of people from around the globe. User generated data eliminates the cost of goods sold, resulting in huge cash flow potential on very little up-front investment…
In Smart Start-ups entepreneur and angel investor David Silver reveals how social networking will change the face of business and create thousands of new millionaires over the next decade…”

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I’ve recently been listening to this audio book, The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. Its a great way to turn dead driving time into great self improvement time.

The premise is that the big breakthroughs come not from the big actions (though we are lead to beleive otherwise in an instant-results, instant-on world) but from the philosophy of persistently applying the many small, seemingly insignificant actions, in a consistent direction, for a period of time.

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Just reading Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.

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Here are the latest additions to my bookshelf.

The Innovator’s Solution - Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor
The Harvard Business Review on Innovation - The Harvard Business Review

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I bought another book on Amazon yesterday, the latest Geoffrey Moore book (the last one I read was Crossing the Chasm way back around 2004 I think). Its called Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution.

The summary on Amazon says
“You’ve read the headlines: industry after industry (airlines, automakers, drug companies, high tech) battered by globalization, deregulation, and commoditization. The Darwinian struggle to deliver profitable products and services keeps getting more brutal as competitive advantage gaps get narrower and narrower. Anything you invent today will soon be copied by someone else — probably better or cheaper.

Dealing with Darwin will help you understand your company’s role in its market ecosystem; where your competitive advantage came from in the past and how it will change in the future; what kinds of differentiation will be most rewarded in your current marketplace; and how to transform your internal dynamics to overcome the inertia that threatens every bold innovation.”
So I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.

I’ve just updated my “On my bookshelf” page with full links to the books on Amazon. If you want to see what I’ve been reading since 2001, look here (also in the navigation on the sidebar).

(or “how I have funded Amazon”)

Ok, so its quite revealing to go back overt your Amazon account and see what you bought, here it is…

2008 (so far…)
The 4-Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferris
iWoz - Steve Wozniak (w/ Gine Smith)
Mavericks At Work - William C Taylor & Polly LaBarre

2007
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
We Are Smarter Than Me - Barry Libert & Jon Spector
Small Is the New Big: And 183 Other Riffs,… - Seth Godin
Smart Start-ups - David Silver
The Slight Edge - Audio Book - Jeff Olson (recommended by my friend Amit Neman)
Wikinomics - How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
The Innovator’s Solution - Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor
The Harvard Business Review on Innovation - The Harvard Business Review
Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution - Geoffrey Moore
The Cluetrain Manifesto - Chris Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Rick Levine (how did I miss this book for so long)

2006
Why Most Things Fail - Paul Ormerod
The Future of Advertising - Joe Cappo
Naked Conversations (How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers) - Robert Scoble, Shel Israel
Branding Unbound: The Future Of Advertising, Sales, and the Brand Experience In the Wireless Age - Rick Mathieson
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
UML for Dummies - Michael J. Chonoles, James A. Schardt
UML Toolkit - Hans-Erik Eriksson, et al
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell
Connected Marketing: The Viral, Buzz and Word of Mouth
Revolution - Justin Kirby
All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough
Strategy - Constantinos Markides
The Google Story - David A. Vise
Search Me: The Surprising Success of Google - Neil Taylor

2005
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Project Management for Dummies - Stanley Portney
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Words That Change Minds: Mastering the Language of
Influence - Shelle Rose Charvet
Get Clients Now!: 28-day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants - C.J. Hayden
Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others - James Flaherty
Coaching For Performance: Growing People, Performance and
Purpose - Sir John Whitmore

2004
Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, HR Professionals and Coaches - Angus McLeod
Accounts Demystified: How to understand financial accounting and analysis - Anthony Rice
Rich Dad, Poor Dad 2: Cash Flow Quadrant - Robert T. Kiyosaki
I’d Like the World to Buy a Coke - David Greising
Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton, John Huey
What They Still Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark H. McCormick

2003
Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time - Howard Schulz
It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong
Rasputin: The Last Word - Edvard Radzinsky
Hawk: Occupation Skateboarder - Tony Hawk, Sean Mortimer
Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual
Workplace - Ricardo Semler
The Clash of Civilizations: And the Remaking of World
Order - Samuel P. Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory - Brian Greene

2002
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the
Universe - Stephen W. Hawking
It’s Not About Size - Dickinson, Richard Branson
Do Something Different - Jurgen Wolff, Sir Richard Branson
The Beermat Entrepreneur - Mike Southon, Chris West
The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork - John C. Maxwell
The Performance Factor : Unlocking the Secrets of
Teamwork - Pat MacMillan
Buddhism Plain and Simple - Steve Hagen
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living - Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler

2001
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management - Arjan Van Weele
The Power of Now - Ekhart Tolle
Your Erroneous Zones - Wayne W. Dyer
Collaborative Advantage : Winning Through Extended Enterprise Supplier Networks - Jeffrey H. Dyer
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup’s English Rendering) - W.Y. Evans-Wentz

2000
The Ecology of Eden - Evan Eisenberg
Rules For Revolutionaries - Guy Kawasaki, Michele Moreno
The Metabolic Typing Diet - Wolcott William L.
Functional Training: Everyone’s Guide to the New Fitness Revolution - Chek Paul
Profitable Product Management - Richard A. Collier