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Tuesday July 29, 2008

Lamb

Chris, my physical trainer and all around nice guy, recommended Lamb to me and it had me laughing out loud while thinking about my faith in new ways. The story is about “Biff”, the sidekick friend of Joshua (ala Jesus)…

Friday March 21, 2008

Three Cups of Tea

Just finished this book about a month ago. It hasn’t left my consciousness. Greg Mortenson (a local guy in the Bay Area) tries to summit Everest and fails. The guy who helps him nurse back to health was awesome. Greg…

Wednesday March 19, 2008

Art of Innovation

My hero. Every time I read an article about Ideo, read their book, read an article about them, I get goose bumps. Ideo is to Innovation what I aspire Rubicon to be for Business Strategy. Tom Kelley, one of the…

Wednesday March 19, 2008

Blue Ocean Strategy

An incredibly popular (1M sold in the first year) book with a title I just love. Blue Ocean represents untapped market space. Written by a BCG guy, it’s a good book to talk about the need to create new markets…

Wednesday March 19, 2008

Good to Great

I couldn’t start this library section without talking about Good to Great. Jim Collins writes this book to define the ways good organizations can become great. He led a team and did a bunch of research to back this up….

Wednesday March 19, 2008

Five Dysfunctions of Teams

I got assigned this book in grad school and probably rolled  my eyes at the time. The idea that team dynamics could be captured in 5 dysfunctions! Heck, I could find 5 in 5 minutes at Apple. (#1: no adult…