{"id":4387,"date":"2013-01-06T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2013-01-06T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T19:57:08","slug":"what-ive-been-reading-top-business-books-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/what-ive-been-reading-top-business-books-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#039;ve been reading, top business books for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Makers-Industrial-Revolution-Chris-Anderson\/dp\/0307720950\" target=\"_blank\">Makers<\/a>, Chris Andersons latest book, as he does over and over highlighting a new trend starting to snowball. He looks at the world of invention &amp; entrepreneurship blending &amp; how that plays out today.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Man-His-Ship-Americas-Architect\/dp\/1451645074\" target=\"_blank\">A Man and his Ship<\/a>, a biography of William Francis Gibbs, the Steve Jobs of the shipping era. Follows his life and his mission of making the infamous United States liner a reality.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right\/dp\/0312430000\" target=\"_blank\">Checklist Manifesto<\/a>, told through medical case studies, implementation of checklists &amp; manuals in a world of complexity, where even the experts cannot remember absolutely everything. Major failure from experts usually a series of simple in-bane mistakes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And for a few Kindle Singles, I enjoyed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/McAfees-Stand-Kindle-Single-ebook\/dp\/B00A88KHYI\" target=\"_blank\">Wired McAfee single<\/a>, talking about his shift to Belize, written just before the recent stream of events.<\/li>\n<li>A quick summary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Warren-Buffetts-Favorite-Books-Intelligent\/dp\/0982967624\" target=\"_blank\">Warren Buffetts favourite three books<\/a>, a nice way to digest wider advice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gutenberg-Geek-Kindle-Single-ebook\/dp\/B007EI62I0\" target=\"_blank\">Gutenberg<\/a>, looking at the man who invented the printing press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other notables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com\/dp\/1591845858\" target=\"_blank\">One Click<\/a>: Looking at Jeff Bezos and the growth of Amazon. An excellent book which is a must read to know the man behind Amazon but also the early years which formed the company.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grouped-groups-friends-influence-social\/dp\/0321804112\" target=\"_blank\">Grouped<\/a>, looking at how the web has reformulated itself so that your peer groups influence your decision making and moving from a 1-1 relationship with the web.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Newsjacking-Breaking-Generate-Coverage-ebook\/dp\/B0065MKMMS\" target=\"_blank\">NewsJacking<\/a>, latest David Merman Scott, reminding us of guerrilla marketing in the digital (real time) age. A great prod.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stealth-Nations-Global-Informal-Economy\/dp\/0307279987\" target=\"_blank\">Stealth of Nations<\/a>, I have written about it before, but looking at the effect the informal economy has around the world. Marvellous read.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makers, Chris Andersons latest book, as he does over and over highlighting a new trend starting to snowball. He looks at the world of invention &amp; entrepreneurship blending &amp; how that plays out today. A Man and his Ship, a biography of William Francis Gibbs, the Steve Jobs of the shipping era. Follows his life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[187],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}