The Personal MBA 40

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Josh Kaufman has finalized The Personal MBA 40, the 40 books he thinks you should read to learn what you’d learn in business school (instead of wasting all that time and money):

Mastery by George Leonard
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business by Ram Charan
On Competition by Michael Porter
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham
The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers by Robert A. Cooke
Essentials of Accounting by Robert Newton Anthony and Leslie K. Pearlman
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox
Lean Thinking by James Womack & Daniel Jones
The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Economics in One Lesson by Harry Hazlitt
The Marketing Playbook by John Zagula & Richard Tong
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
The Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
Flawless Consulting by Peter Block
Real Estate Principles for the New Economy by Norman Miller & David Geltner
Getting To Yes by Fisher, Ury, and Patton
Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer
A Primer on Business Ethics by Tibor Machan & James Chesher
Brand New by Nancy F. Koehn
American Business, 1920-2000 by Thomas K. McCraw, John H. Franklin, and A. S. Eisenstadt
The Little Book of Business Wisdom by Peter Krass (Editor)
Re-imagine by Tom Peters

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McChuck: Anybody who has ever played a wargame can tell you that your defenses can handle a certain amount of opposition, but when enemy numbers, regardless of quality, exceed that number, you get overrun. The mobs in Mogadishu back in 1993 weren’t well organized, weren’t well equipped, weren’t well trained, and weren’t well led. But there sure were a whole lot of them shooting at the Rangers.
Russell: New article about Thorp https://archive.ph/fq5JC
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Freddo: https://www.zerohedge.co m/geopolitical/us-drones -are-expensive-and-error -prone-so-ukraine-turns- china
Jim: The principle applies whatever the source of the wall-penetrating radio waves in question.
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Bruce: Green energy is a patronage fraud, and Terraform Industries is working with it. But their tech isn’t a fraud.
Handle: What is Henderson taking about? I was under the impression that it was a broadly believed meme and one frequently portrayed in popular entertainment for several generations before Henderson was born that college kids got drunk and enjoyed / experimented with recreational drugs quite a lot. Maybe Rob’s poorer friends couldn’t afford to watch those episodes of South Park or didn’t hear about George W Bush’s “youthful indiscretions”? Man, the left really is...
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Jim: Fun! https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=bIVzK-h6qao
McChuck: Laser designators also use a coded pulse system. That avoids spoofing and also enables multiple projectiles to be inbound to separate targets simultaneously.

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