What I've been reading, top business books for 2012
January 6th, 2013- 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 & entrepreneurship blending & 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 and his mission of making the infamous United States liner a reality.
- Checklist Manifesto, told through medical case studies, implementation of checklists & 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.
And for a few Kindle Singles, I enjoyed:
- Wired McAfee single, talking about his shift to Belize, written just before the recent stream of events.
- A quick summary of Warren Buffetts favourite three books, a nice way to digest wider advice.
- Gutenberg, looking at the man who invented the printing press.
Other notables:
- One Click: 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.
- Grouped, 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.
- NewsJacking, latest David Merman Scott, reminding us of guerrilla marketing in the digital (real time) age. A great prod.
- Stealth of Nations, I have written about it before, but looking at the effect the informal economy has around the world. Marvellous read.