Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

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  mltt03/14/08 Report as spam
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  Would they actually be "business" books or...

  ...something like philosophy books? Likely the latter since it's stuff like Aristotle's Poetics that has influenced writing in general and marketing in particular.

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  Geoffrey James, Sales Machine03/17/08 Report as spam
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  Books

  The only off-limits books are any novel by Franz Kafka.
  
  Seriously, I think you can learn more about human organizations and how they function from Gibbon than from any business book.

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  bonnie3k03/17/08 Report as spam
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  Books

  The Alchemist is a good book as well

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  rab32003/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

  I couldn't disagree with you more. Although the medium is up for discussion the sharing of thinking found in business books, journals, online, etc. has been a valuable investment for my growth and development. No book. Let me repeat that, I have found no book to be a blueprint for success in life or in business. But the critical evaluation of viewpoints and perspectives found in the written word along with experimentation and active learning, I believe, has significantly enhanced my understanding and competencies.
  
  Richard

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  lahollin03/17/08 Report as spam
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  Top 3 Business Books

  Sure, reading expands your creative intellect and allows you to learn from others. But, there is also a pile of shoddy b-books being peddled with really no new insight. My top three:
  
  1) Five Dysfunctions - Lencioni
  2) Lessons from the Edge - Berg
  3) The Prince - Machiavelli

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  yellowbosch03/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

  The World is flat - A brief history of th Twenty-First Century. Updated and espanded by Thomas L. Friedman;
  
  Sun Tzu on the Art of War by Sun Tzu;
  
  Revolutionary Wealth. How it will be created and how it will change our lives by Alvin Toffler and Heide Toffler.
  
  yellowbosch

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  bonnie3k03/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

  Radical Marketing from Harvard to Harley Lessons From Ten That Broke the Rules and Made it Big by Sam Hill and Glenn Rifkin
  
  The Instant Manager by Cy Charney
  Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Steve Covey

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  sk182103/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

  Practice of Management
  Crossing the Chasm
  Intelligent Investor

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  Hastis0103/17/08 Report as spam
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  7 habits of highly effective people
  Good to Great
  The Discipline of Market Leaders

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  pvnarayanan03/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

  I have to agree 100% that business books are a complete waste of time. But I have to concede that some of the most successful executives I know 'buy' books -- mostly to gift them to clients and customers, or to keep abreast of the latest fad. I also know many successful business people and executives who never read a business book (including self-help styles) and went with their own 'common sense' about things. Unfortunately, the majority of the simpler ones oversimplify life and business, while the ones written by renowned authors really complicate life and business. Avoid both and grow your expertise in your area instead of looking up to them for the latest fad. Business books are no substitute for the real hard work. Do read business newspapers and magazines but again perhaps one each is more than enough.

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  RE: Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp

  1. "Dilemas ??ticos de la Empresa Contempor??nea"
  Carlos Llano Cifuentes
  ISBN 968-16-5348-3
  
  2. "Implanting Strategic Management"
  H. Igor Ansoff & Edward J. McDonnell
  ISBN 968 444 314 5
  
  3. "La sociedad Postcapitalista"
  Peter F. Drucker
  ISBN 9788445500538
  
  Carlos Manzo