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How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban (2011)

Thu, 21 May 2026 21:00:00 +0100

How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It by Mark Cuban (2011)

Author: Mark Cuban
First Published: January 1, 2011
Score: 6/10

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Mark Cuban shares his wealth of experience and business savvy in his first published book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, available now only as an e-book. Using the greatest material from his popular Blog Maverick, he has collected and updated his postings on business and life to provide a catalog of insider knowledge on what it takes to become a thriving entrepreneur. Cuban tells his own rags-to-riches story of how he went from selling powdered milk and sleeping on friends’ couches to owning his own company and becoming a multi-billion dollar success story. His unconventional yet highly effective ideas on how to build a successful business offer entrepreneurs at any stage of their careers a huge edge over their competitors.

Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan (2011)

Sun, 19 May 2024 15:30:00 +0100

Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America by Jeff Ryan (2011)

Author: Jeff Ryan
First Published: August 1, 2011
Score: 6/10

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The story of Nintendo’s rise and the beloved icon who made it possible

Nintendo has continually set the standard for video game innovation in America, starting in 1981 with a plucky hero who jumped over barrels to save a girl from an ape.

The saga of Mario, the portly plumber who became the most successful franchise in the history of gaming, has plot twists worthy of a video game. Jeff Ryan shares the story of how this quintessentially Japanese company found success in the American market. Lawsuits, Hollywood, die-hard fans, and face-offs with Sony and Microsoft are all part of the drama. Find out about: Mario’s eccentric yet brilliant creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, who was tapped for the job because he was considered expendable; Minoru Arakawa, the son-in-law of Nintendo’s imperious president, who bumbled his way to success; and the unexpected approach that allowed Nintendo to reinvent itself as the gaming system for the nongamer, especially now with the Wii.

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (2023)

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 13:00:00 +0100

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (2023)

Author: Walter Isaacson
First Published: September 12, 2023
Score: 7/10

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When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver (2012)

Sun, 05 Feb 2023 15:00:00 +0000

The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver (2012)

Author: Nate Silver
First Published: September 27, 2012
Score: 7/10

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Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth. He solidified his standing as the nation’s foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of FiveThirtyEight.com.

Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future.

Just Do It by Donald R. Katz (1994)

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:00:00 +0000

Just Do It by Donald R. Katz (1994)

Author: Donald R. Katz
First Published: 1994
Score: 5/10

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The most powerful force in sports is not a football or baseball team. It is a shoe company. Nike is radically changing the way sports, business and popular culture interact.

Donald Katz is an award-winning author with a genius for getting inside places other journalists can’t, and for writing nonfiction with the sweep and drama of a great novel. In his acclaimed bestseller, The Big Store, Katz gained unprecedented access to Sears, America’s retail giant of the past. Now, in Just Do It, Katz has penetrated the company of the future, a dream machine that seeks nothing less than to define culture through the power of sports.

[re-read] Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (2013)

Fri, 20 Mar 2020 23:02:00 +0000

[re-read] Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (2013)

Author: David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
First Published: October 29th 2013
Score: 7/10

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The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why – with a few controversial exceptions such as Yahoo – more businesses will want to promote this new model of getting things done.

Power Moves by Adam M. Grant (2019)

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 22:22:00 +0100

Power Moves by Adam M. Grant (2019)

Author: Adam M. Grant
First Published: January 3rd 2019
Score: 5/10

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Navigating the new landscape of power with Mary Barra (GM), Stewart Butterfield (Slack), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook), Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet), David Solomon (Goldman Sachs), Ellen Stofan (NASA), and two dozen other leaders, thinkers, and luminaries.

Power is changing. Private corner offices and management by decree are out, as is unquestioned trust in the government and media. These former pillars of traditional power have been replaced by networks of informed citizens who collectively wield more power over their personal lives, employers, and worlds than ever before.

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (2018)

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 18:15:00 +0000

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou (2018)

Author: John Carreyrou
First Published: May 21st 2018
Score: 7/10

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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers.

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work.

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport (2012)

Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:14:00 +0000

So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport (2012)

Author: Cal Newport
First Published: January 1st 2012
Score: 7/10

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In this eye-opening account, Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice.

Not only is the cliché flawed-preexisting passions are rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work-but it can also be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (2008)

Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:26:00 +0000

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (2008)

Author: Seth Godin
First Published: October 16th 2008
Score: 5/10

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A tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea. For millions of years, humans have been seeking out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even musical (think of the Deadheads). It’s our nature.

Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. All those blogs and social networking sites are helping existing tribes get bigger. But more important, they’re enabling countless new tribes to be born - groups of ten or ten thousand or ten million who care about their iPhones, or a political campaign, or a new way to fight global warming.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant (2016)

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:06:00 +0100

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam M. Grant (2016)

Author: Adam M. Grant
First Published: February 2nd 2016
Score: 7/10

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The #1 national bestseller and New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas—and how leaders can fight groupthink

With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation’s most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott (2017)

Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:59:00 +0100

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Malone Scott (2017)

Author: Kim Malone Scott
First Published: March 14th 2017
Score: 7/10

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From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. While this advice may work for everyday life, it is, as Kim Scott has seen, a disaster when adopted by managers.

Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she developed a class on optimal management. She has earned growing fame in recent years with her vital new approach to effective management, the “radical candor” method.

Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (2013)

Fri, 16 Dec 2016 19:34:00 +0000

Remote by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried (2013)

Author: David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
First Published: October 29th 2013
Score: 7/10

Goodreads

The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why – with a few controversial exceptions such as Yahoo – more businesses will want to promote this new model of getting things done.

In the Plex by Steven Levy (2011)

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 23:12:00 +0100

In the Plex by Steven Levy (2011)

Author: Steven Levy
First Published: April 12th 2011
Score: 5/10

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Few companies in history have ever been as successful and as admired as Google, the company that has transformed the Internet and become an indispensable part of our lives. How has Google done it? Veteran technology reporter Steven Levy was granted unprecedented access to the company, and in this revelatory book he takes listeners inside Google headquarters - the Googleplex - to explain how Google works.

Getting Things Done by David Allen (2001)

Tue, 10 May 2016 22:49:00 +0100

Getting Things Done by David Allen (2001)

Author: David Allen
First Published: 2001
Score: 10/10

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With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, “flow,” “mind like water,” and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance.

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists–all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you’re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed “the personal productivity guru,” suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (2015)

Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:03:00 +0000

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance (2015)

Author: Ashlee Vance
First Published: March 3rd 2015
Score: 7/10

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South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior.

The Everything Store by Brad Stone (2013)

Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:41:00 +0100

The Everything Store by Brad Stone (2013)

Author: Brad Stone
First Published: 2013
Score: 7/10

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The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that’s never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech’s other elite innovators–Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg–Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. THE EVERYTHING STORE will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis (2009)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:56:00 +0100

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis (2009)

Author: Jeff Jarvis
First Published: 2009
Score: 5/10

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A bold and vital book that asks and answers the most urgent question of today: What Would Google Do?

In a book that’s one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis reverse-engineers Google—the fastest-growing company in history—to discover forty clear and straightforward rules to manage and live by. At the same time, he illuminates the new worldview of the internet generation: how it challenges and destroys, but also opens up vast new opportunities. His findings are counterintuitive, imaginative, practical, and above all visionary, giving readers a glimpse of how everyone and everything—from corporations to governments, nations to individuals—must evolve in the Google era.