Books & Reviews
[Review] The SOHO Solution: 21 Selling Strategies For Growing Your Small Business
In "The SOHO Solution: 21 Selling Strategies For Growing Your Small Business", author and certified sales trainer Tom Abbott recommends 21 strategies that you can employ - one for each week - to help you increase sales.
[Review] An Idea A Day
At first glance, "An Idea a Day...: 365 Great Business Ideas for Each Day of the Year" sounds like a book that offers you ideas for your to start a business with. In fact, it's not - it's more like a collection of great inspiration and excellent recommendations to help you spur an existing business to greater heights.
[Review] The Start Your Own Business Bible
"The Start Your Own Business Bible" compiles some 501 business ideas and gives you an overview of the nature of each possible venture, as well as a lowdown of how to enter that business.
[Review] The Pirate’s Dilemma
Pirate DJ, music buff, and magazine publisher Matt Mason's book The Pirate's Dilemma - How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism is a fascinating tour-de-force of the world of youth culture, content piracy and the future of commerce.
[Review] What The Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Gladwell proffers radical answers to challenge age-old notions in his latest bestselling volume "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures". A compilation of 19 essays on a wide range of topics - espionage, war, hair color, kitchen appliances, homelessness and more - the volume blends pop psychology, sociology, management and current affairs in a highly readable prose.
[Review] No Fear: Business Leadership In The Age Of Digital Cowboys
Leading business information architect and IT entrepreneur Pekka A. Viljakainen's book "No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age" looks at how business leaders can attract and harness Digital Cowboys, essentially the crème de la crème of a new generation of digital natives, in order to future-proof their organizations.
[Review] Your Company Sucks: It’s Time To Declare War On Yourself
Sales have plateaued, your employees are griping, customers are unhappy and you have no idea what is going wrong. Yes, your company sucks and you're at your wits' end. It's time for some self-reflection, and the book "Your Company Sucks: It's Time to Declare War on Yourself" may be able to help you find out what's wrong.
[Review] The Big Enough Company
"The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You" by Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams uses plenty of case studies, success stories and personal anecdotes to dispense advice on how you can find the best way forward for your company.
[Review] Brewing Up A Business
Sam Calagione's book "Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery" is as much an insightful look into history and business of Dogfish Head Brewery as the American beer industry.
[Review] The Truth About IKEA: The Secret Success of the World’s Most Popular Furniture...
The book "The Truth about IKEA: The Secret Success of the World's Most Popular Furniture Brand", authored by 20-year Ikea veteran Johan Stenebo, provides a fascinating insight into what "really" happened behind its hallowed blue and yellow walls.
[Review] Growth Or Bust: Proven Turnaround Strategies To Grow Your Business
Mark Faust's "Growth or Bust: Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow Your Business" is a manual for business owners and executives to find untapped growth potential for their company, and is especially useful for those whose business is in some form of stagnation or regression, and has difficulty growing.
[Review] The Transformational Entrepreneur
Many startup books focus on the nitty-gritties of actually setting up, running and growing a business. "The Transformational Entrepreneur: Igniting The Mind, Heart, & Spirit For Breakthrough Business Success", by Terry Murray, takes a different approach.
[Review] Small Is The New Big
Are you feeling the entrepreneurial (or intrapreneurial) itch lately? If so, "Small Is the New Big" may be the right up your alley.
[Review] The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Part self help book, part fable, "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny" by leadership guru Robin Sharma is a slim volume that packs powerful life and leadership lessons in the form of a novel.
[Review] Six Pixels of Separation
Published in 2009, Mitch Joel's book on business strategy in the age of social media titled "Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone" is a laudable effort to tie in the disparate threads of the online world for those keen to experiment in this space.
[Review] Superfreakonomics
Creators of the highly popular book "Freakonomics", hosts of the Freakonomics radio podcasts, University of Chicago economist Steven D. Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner join forces yet again in "SuperFreakonomics".
[Book Review] Building A Winning Business: 70 Takeaways
Author of "Building a Winning Business: 70 Takeaways for Creating a Strong Company during Good and Bad Economic Times" Tom Salonek comes up with a priceless book on business management that is concise yet insightful.
[Review] Go For It!: A Practical Guide To Success For Everyone
I'm usually very wary of any book that claims of being a guide to success. But "Go For It!" by John Tassone, a straight-talking, shoot-from-the-hip kind entrepreneur in the insurance industry, was seriously an enjoyable read.
[Review] The Dragonfly Effect: Driving Social Change Through Social Media
Co-authored by Stanford University Marketing Professor Jennifer Aaker and her husband Andy Smith, a leading marketing consultant of Vonavona Ventures, "The Dragonfly Effect" offers a recipe for social change leveraging on the power of social media.
[Review] The Compound Effect
The book "The Compound Effect" is based around a very simple principle: that little, everyday decisions have, in the long run, very significant impact on your life.
[Review] Karen Okulicz’s Try!, Decide!, And Attitude!
Sometimes you just need some inspiration in your life. Perhaps you've recently lost your job, encountered some personal tragedy or are simply down on your luck. Karen Okulicz, with her three books "Try! A Survival Guide to Unemployment", "Decide! How to Make Any Decision" and "Attitude! (For Your Best Lived Life)", may just offer the right antidote to help you through these difficult times.
[Review] Small Business, Big Vision
For the new small business entrepreneur, "Small Business, Big Vision" by Adam and Matthew Toren is a handy, easy-to-read, and useful tome to start you off thinking how you can tweak your own business for the better.
[Review] Harry Potter: The Story Of A Global Business Phenomenon
Can Susan Gunelius' book "Harry Potter: The Story of a Global Business Phenomenon" offer some insight into how we can replicate some of the success experienced by Harry Potter, the world's most bankable fantasy brand with an estimated brand value of US$15 billion?
[Review] Startup Weekend
co-directors of Startup Weekend - Marc Nager, Clint Nelsen and Franck Nouyrigat - has put together some of their experiences and best practices from Startup Weekend into the book, "Startup Weekend: How to Take a Company From Concept to Creation in 54 Hours".
[Review] The Everyday Entrepreneur
The advice in "The Everyday Entrepreneur" is appropriate, practical, and usable. If you are a new business owner or one that has found it challenging to grow your company, this book is for you.
[Review] Success By Design
If following tried-and-true processes and templates for your small business can lead to success, then perhaps Richard B. Sanford's "Success By Design: How to Create Ever-Increasing Income, Profit & Wealth in the World of Small Business" may be the answer.
[Review] The 51 Fatal Business Errors And How To Avoid Them
"The 51 Fatal Business Errors and How to Avoid Them" offers 51 key reasons why many businesses fall flat on their faces, and is chockful of rather harsh business lessons that will lead you, the business owner, to plenty of soul-searching.
[Review] Gamification By Design: Implementing Game Mechanics In Web And Mobile Apps
"Gamification by Design" by gamification expert and chair of the Gamification Summit Gabe Zimmerman, and entrepreneur and veteran technologist Christopher Cunningham, is targeted at more than just games or application designers. If you are a brand marketer, a user experience architect or even a client-facing suit from a creative agency, understanding the concepts within will make you that much better a professional in your own space.
[Review] Conversational Capital
What's the newest trick in the marketing bag? Enter "Conversational Capital", a book written by Bertrand Cesvet, Tony Babinski, and Eric Alper from experiential brand collective SID LEE.
[Review] Celebritize Yourself
Have you wondered how seemingly ordinary folks - policemen, plumbers, teachers and housewives - have risen to become well-known household names? If you do, consider adopting the principles written by Marsha Friedman in "Celebritize Yourself: The 3-Step Method To Increase Your Visibility and Explode Your Business".