Maverick

I am not an entrepreneur (yet) but I still want to share a few titles with you: - "Maverick or The seven day weekend" by Ricardo Semler - "Rework" by Jason Fried and David Hansson - "Startup - an insider's guide to launching and running a business" by Kevin Ready - "Bookkeeping and Cost Accounting for Factories" by William Kent (1918) - "Practice what you preach" by David Maister - "Don't oil the squeaky wheel" by Wolf Rinke - "Selling The Wheel: Choosing The Best Way To Sell For You Your Company Your Customers" by Jeff Cox - "The power of stupidity" by Giancarlo Livraghi - "How to write a good advertisement" by Victor Schwab - "How to Make Money Out of Thin Air" by Brian Sher - "Good manners and business etiquette. Illustrated Guide" by Elena Ber - "Don't just roll the dice: A usefully short guide to software pricing" by Neil Davidson - "Message to Garcia" by Elbert Hubbard - the TopLeaf course of 36 video lectures on management by dr. Izhak Adizes can be purchased on https://vimeo.com/ondemand/topleaf or found on ru tracker (if you have access)

"Maverick" by Ricardo Semler - This book is about the company Semco in Brazil and challenges everything you think you know about business. Semler advocates radical ideas like public self-set salaries and workplace democracy. I don't necessarily agree with everything in the book, but the ideas sure are interesting.

Maverick - Ricardo Semler (For inspiration) The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway(For enjoying the process)

Maverick - By Ricardo Semler of Semco. It's a must read book for every entrepreneur. I've read few business books, but this is one of those books I'll always recommend everyone with Founders at Work and Art of the Start. It's a real story of Semco with great business lessons.

On my desk: Getting Real (37Signals), Hardball (Chris Mathews), Prioritizing Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen) Nearby shelf: The Design of Everyday Things, Maverick, Founders at work, A Brief History of Time, A Pattern Language, Peopleware, Made to stick, Web Standards Solutions, Designing Interactions, The Pragmatic Programmer, The Mythical Man-Month, Oh, the Places You'll Go! Other good reads: Blink, Tipping Point, Long Tail, Freakonomics