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Some notes from reading Good To Great

I loved reading Built To Last, which was a formative book for my business education, because (for one thing) it convinced me of the importance of non-financial motivation.  I’m finding lots of good things in Collins’ other famous book, Good To Great, and...

Highlights on Richard Nixon from Evan Thomas’s Being Nixon

Like a lot of people, I find Richard Nixon to be a fascinating president, and I just finished reading Evan Thomas’s new book, Being Nixon, which successfully gave me a more full picture of Nixon as President and person. Here are some of the highlights: Nixon had...

Robert Caro on LBJ, The Passage of Power

Just finished reading my hero Robert Caro’s fourth book about Lyndon Johnson, the Path to Power.  (His other three books in this series are also awesome – Means of Ascent, the Path to Power, and Master of the Senate.) Here are some highlights: Lyndon...

Articles On Building a Big Company

I’ve read a lot of good posts on how to build companies, but today I read what might be my favorite article (which isn’t even an article, but a powerpoint presentation from Greylock Partners), because, in my opinion, it applies equally well to services...

Notes On Jon Meacham’s Biography of George H. W. Bush

During Snowzilla in DC, I finished reading Jon Meacham’s great biography of our 41st president, George H. W. Bush.  Here are some of the points that I found worthy of remembering: When he ran for President in 1988, Donald Trump tried to get on his ticket as Vice...

A Few of My Favorite Books of 2015

None of these books were written in 2015, but I was glad I read them in 2015. Napoleon: A Life, by Andrew Roberts A Big Life (In Advertising), by Mary Wells Caribbean: A Novel, by James Michener Hey Whipple, Squeeze This, by Luke Sullivan 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim...