by Will | Mar 12, 2017 | Books
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...
by Will | Mar 14, 2016 | Books
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...
by Will | Mar 2, 2016 | Books
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...
by Will | Feb 18, 2016 | Books
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...
by Will | Jan 25, 2016 | Books
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...
by Will | Dec 12, 2015 | Books
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...
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