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Small Giants
Bo Burlingham
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Small Giants
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Three of my favorites were: 1. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle An excellent analysis of what makes some cultures great and others toxic. 2. Measure What Matters by John Doerr John Doerr describes a simple yet effective management system that has helped Google succeed and scale. The Objective and Key Results approach can be effective for anyone from a single contributor to a large organization trying to encourage a culture of effective collaboration and achievement. 3. Small Giants by Bo Burlingham The stories about a handful of companies that chose to be great rather than big. Some of the other books that I have enjoyed are listed here: https://behavioralvalueinvestor.com/other-interesting-books/
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Two books that changed my way of thinking about business are, Small Giants and The Responsible Entrepreneur. I read them when I was young, so more than changing me, they have me a direction and a basis on what to focus. I read some chapters now and then...
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Here's a few I've really liked that have a broader subject matter than only what you asked for. I figure that if you like to read you'd like these books. --- NON-FICTION --- Darkness Visible A Mathemematician's Apology Omnivore's Dilemma Fermat's Enigma The Code Book Born to Run Judgement of Paris Siddhartha Killing Pablo The Victorian Internet Lone Survivor I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman Papillon Into Thin Air Born on a Blue Day Touching the Void Got Fight The Conquest of Happiness --- FICTION --- Switch Bitch Lost Horizon The Cuckoo's Egg The Simlarillion The Time Traveler's Wife The Alchemist The Count of Monte Cristo A Canticle for Leibowitz Neverwhere My Uncle Oswald Stories of Your Life and Others Invisible Cities Life of Pi Atlas Shrugged --- WALL STREET / FINANCE --- When Genius Failed Liar's Poker Buffett (Lowenstein) Bull! Black-Scholes and Beyond (textbook) Fixed Income Securities (textbook) The Road to Serfdom The Smartest Guys in the Room Fortune's Formula The Fourth Turning Inside the House of Money --- ENTREPRENEURSHIP / COMPUTERS (non-textbook) --- Masters of Doom It's Not About the Bike Dot. Bomb Founders at Work The PayPal Wars…
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- Atlas Shrugged
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Siddhartha
- The Soul of a New Machine
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Founders at Work
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Masters of Doom
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany
- The Alchemist
- Don't Make Me Think
- Effective Java
- Programming Pearls
- The Cuckoo's Egg
- The Algorithm Design Manual
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Coders at Work
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Into Thin Air
- The Code Book
- Liar's Poker
- The 4-Hour Workweek
- The Silmarillion
- Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
- Invisible Cities
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Born to Run
- Life of Pi
- The Conquest of Happiness
- A Mathematician's Apology
- When Genius Failed
- The Road to Serfdom
- Fermat's Enigma
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- The Victorian Internet
- A Pattern Language
- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
- Neverwhere
- Setting the Table
- The Smartest Guys in the Room
- The Time Traveler's Wife
- Touching the Void
- Expert C Programming
- Fortune's Formula
- Java Concurrency in Practice
- Java Puzzlers
- Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
- Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills
- Papillon
- Pour Your Heart Into It
- Small Is the New Big
- The Computational Beauty of Nature
- The Fourth Turning
- The PayPal Wars
- Understanding Comics
- Beyond Software Architecture
- Black-Scholes and Beyond
- Born on a Blue Day
- Cooking for Geeks
- Darkness Visible
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
- Inside the House of Money
- It's Not About the Bike
- Killing Pablo
- Lone Survivor
- Lost Horizon
- Make: Electronics
- My Uncle Oswald
- Robot Building for Beginners
- Switch Bitch
- The Ashley Book of Knots
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- The Bread Baker's Apprentice
- The Brewmaster's Table
- The Hypomanic Edge
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber - its all about vision, systems, and building a business that can scale. Small Giants by Bo Burlingham
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