This month, we read “Am I Being Too Subtle?” by Sam Zell in the Entrepreneur Book Club on Goodreads. It’s an autobiography, that accounts the life of self-made billionaire Sam Zell. Zell made his money in real estate and prides himself on going against the crowd and being an outlier. Here’s the book jacket. Self-made […]
Books
The Everything Store
My thoughts on The Everything Store by Brad Stone: 1. Bezos is clearly a visionary. His ability to turn something as simple as selling books online into one of the world’s largest companies is epic in every sense of the word. The thing I admire the most about Bezos is his focus. His focus on […]
Deliberate Practice
One of the best books I read last year was “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise” by Anders Ericsson. If you haven’t heard of it, you still may be familiar with Ericsson’s work. Malcolm Gladwell famously credits his notion of the 10,000-hour rule to Ericsson, though it is not described by Gladwell in a […]
Introducing The Entrepreneur Book Club
I love to read, so I figured I’d start a little book club. Every month I’ll introduce a new book, and I’ll do a little review at the end of the month on the book. Feel free to join the Entrepreneur Book Club Goodreads group where I’ll post a few questions, and hopefully we can […]
Shoe Dog & Man’s Search For Meaning: Book Review
I just finished a couple of books within a day of each other (I like reading things simultaneously for whatever reason). Both were very good and very different. Shoe Dog The first was Shoe Dog by Phil Knight. The author is the Founder of Nike, and the book dives into the long history of the world […]