Books

Valuable ‘Lessons from the Recession’

April 12, 2012

I was happy to see in this morning’s email that James Barrod and Brian Moran’s Lessons from the Recession is out now and being promoted on an innovative crowd funding site IndieGo.com. I like the title because that’s exactly what this book is: lessons learned. Remember 2008? Particularly the end of 2008, September and October? [...]

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5 Blogging Mistakes And A State of Wonder

September 23, 2011

Yesterday while flying cross country I read State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett. It’s about real people in an almost-but-not-quite magical Amazon jungle, and, although the plot moves steadily forward, it’s more of a spell, woven with words by a great writer, than just a story. As I got off my first plane, I was [...]

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About Time: Ebooks Outselling Printed Books

May 24, 2011

Last week Jeff Bezos announced that E-books now outsell print books at amazon.com. Computerworld reported: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the e-book threshold arrived sooner than expected. “Customers are now choosing Kindle books more often than print books,” he said. “We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would [...]

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Torn: True Stories on Kids, Career, and Conflict of Motherhood

May 2, 2011

Today is the first day of distribution for Samatha Walraven’s book Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood. I got an advance copy and it’s a good read: for working moms, of course, but also for working dads, and everybody else who cares about understanding some of the people they [...]

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A Nice-Guy User's Manual for Life and Business

March 8, 2011

Some cranky folkloric baseball manager from decades ago was asked why he was such an SOB. He answered: “Nice people finish last.” In Enchantment, however, Guy Kawasaki tells us how and why nice people finish first. Don’t misunderstand the word enchantment. It’s not magic. There’s no Pied Piper. Guy’s enchantment is good common sense and [...]

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Jonathan Fields’ Great Title Idea

January 3, 2011

This is so cool. I’m really jealous. As he finishes up his next book, Jonathan Fields turns to the web and his so-called tribe for help with the book title. In Help Me Choose The Title Of My Next Book, he put a poll onto his blog and promoted in there and in Twitter, Facebook, [...]

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Build A Referral Engine Right

May 13, 2010

I love this paragraph: There are three ingredients necessary for a rewarding and successful business experience: You must enjoy what you do and feel a sense of purpose; you must be good at what you do; and you must be able to convince other people to pay you for what you do. That’s from John [...]

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What Amazon and iPad Teach us About Strategy

May 7, 2010

I love it: now when I buy a Kindle book from Amazon.com, I can have it on my iPhone, my iPad, my Mac laptop, my Windows laptop, my Mac Desktop, or my Windows desktop. This makes me feel like I really own the book. If I have a spare 10 minutes, just about wherever I [...]

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eBooks: Hot, Flat, Crowded, and Not on Amazon.com. Let the Games Begin

February 1, 2010

(Important: late-breaking news. Since this was posted earlier today, Amazon has reversed its position on this. Macmillan is back, but with its own pricing on the Kindle. This is important. Here’s a link.) eBook wars, you say? On one hand, it’s about time. On the other, wow, this is strategy in action. And interesting spectacle [...]

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Social Media Serendipity; or, the Social in Social Media

June 29, 2009

I like serendipity. Not just because the word sounds like a refreshing drink in the shade on a hot day, but because when serendipity happens, it’s always good. Here’s the Wikipedia definition: Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. … So I had a [...]

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