Tag: Book Review

Notes on a Book: Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis

18 May 2014

I recently finished reading Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis (professor in business administration) and Patricia Ward Biederman (journalist). Notably, the reason I picked it up is because in Tribal Leadership – David Logan mentions Warren as mentor, and his work in this book as a predecessor to the Tribal Leadership book. It's easy to see […]

Notes on a book: Remote: Office Not Required by 37signals

24 April 2014

I first heard about Remote: Office Not Required when my friend, John Leach, mentioned on social media he'd been interviewed for it. Interested enough to see what it was he was interviewed about, I ordered a copy, and finally finished reading it yesterday. In short, the book is a persuasive set of mini-essays about why […]

Notes on a book: Founders at Work

14 April 2014

Yesterday, I finally completed Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days. The book is a collection of interviews conducted by Jessica Livingston of YCombinator with cofounders and key people of a great deal of well known (and in some cases, less well known, but notable) companies. Because each chapter is a different interview with a different person, […]

Notes on a book: Pitch Anything

5 April 2014

I've recently read Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff. It's an interesting book, on the back someone's written "move over Neil Strauss – Pitch Anything is the new the Game". I think I can see why – they both inhabit an area of applied game theory or applied NLP, which when put into words, is likely […]