The book review for this week is The 10% Entrepreneur by Patrick McGinnis
This is a great book outlining the many different ways anyone can get involved in an entrepreneurial venture. It does not take full time, high risk oriented people to build an entrepreneurial investment portfolio. You can do this in your spare time by offering expertise, contacts, capital, etc. with out having to quit your full time, “anchor” job.
The book review for this week is Right Away and All at Once by Greg Brenneman.
Brenneman is a highly respected and experienced CEO who has led the turnarounds of many large corporations like Continental Airlines, Home Depot and Burger King (see this past post for more details). He provides some amazing business and personal insights in this book as well as revealing the foundation for his successful business philosophy.
My takeaway from this book is;
The book review for this week is Deep Work by Cal Newport.
If you want to produce at your peak level, you need to work for extended periods of time on a single task without interruption. Newport calls this Deep Work.
The book review for this week is The Magic of Conflict by Thomas F Crum.
Crum defines his method of conflict management through the lens of an Aikido martial artist which, all things considered, is a very interesting perspective. However, I was not a big fan of the book as it focused too much on expanding and contracting “ki” or “sources of positive and negative energy”.
My takeaway from this book is that I need to be more aware of the reasons behind a conflict.
The book review for this week is The Third Wave by Steve Case
Case takes the reader through the history of the development of the Internet through his eyes and the perspective of the history of AOL. He then postulates what the next stage of internet development will look like. He calls this the Third Wave. The Third Wave can be summarized by this quote from the book:
