Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Second Edition): Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

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“I strongly recommend that you buy one copy of Peopleware for yourself and another copy for your boss. If you are a boss, then buy one for everyone in your department, and buy one for your boss.”

Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major [...]

Growing a Business: Paul Hawken

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San Francisco Chronicle Growing a Business is highly readable….Its ideas on doing business deserve widespread circulation, discussion and recognition. — Review
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Kirkus ReviewsA standout in an overcrowded field.
Entrepreneur…a wonderful combination of hardheaded business acumen, plain common [...]

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story: Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis was supposed to be writing about how Jim Clark, the founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, was going to turn health care on its ear by launching Healtheon, which would bring the vast majority of the industry’s transactions online. So why was he spending so [...]

The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad: Michael A. Cusumano

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Cusumano, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and coauthor of Microsoft Secrets, offers a comprehensive overview of the software business and how the right approach is key to the success of technology companies. Cusumano first identifies the key distinction between software [...]

The Portable MBA, 4th Edition: Robert F. Bruner, Mark R. Eaker, R. Edward Freeman, Robert E. Spekman, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, S. Venkataraman

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One of the more exciting aspects of today’s entrepreneurial boom is the emergence of formidable players with varied backgrounds; one of the more significant challenges for many of them involves learning what’s required to take their great ideas to the next (read: profitable) level. The Portable MBA, [...]

Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully: Gerald M. Weinberg

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.” . . much more than about giving advice successfully. It’s a guide that recognizes and respects the individuality and freedom of each person you deal with in business and social dealings. It’s clear-eyed and clever and fun to read. Highly recommended.”

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency: Tom DeMarco

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Another entry in the small but growing management library that suggests purposely slowing down and smelling the roses could actually boost productivity in today’s 24/7 world, Tom DeMarco’s Slack stands out because it is aimed at “the infernal busyness of the modern workplace.” DeMarco writes, “Organizations sometimes [...]

Inside Intuit: How the Makers of Quicken Beat Microsoft and Revolutionized an Entire Industry: Suzanne Taylor, Kathy Schroeder, John Doerr

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“The fast-paced narrative by Suzanne Taylor and Kathy Schroeder provides a candid and entertaining look at Intuit and its founders.” — San Jose Mercury News, 1 February, 2004
The Exclusive Story behind Intuit’s Hard-Won Success It’s a modern-day David and Goliath story for [...]

Burn Rate : How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet: Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff, the author of NetGuide, one of the first major guides to the Net, gives you a tour of this medium that could best be described as "Alice’s Adventures Through the Monitor." Burn Rate is the story of Wolff’s transition from journalist to entrepreneur in the Internet business–a [...]

Burn Rate : How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet: Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff, the author of NetGuide, one of the first major guides to the Net, gives you a tour of this medium that could best be described as "Alice’s Adventures Through the Monitor." Burn Rate is the story of Wolff’s transition from journalist to entrepreneur in the Internet business–a [...]