I’m surprised I waited so long to read this book by Randy Komisar, now almost a decade old, titled The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur.
The book is a light read, I finished it between two short airplane flights to/fro Philly. Lots of this stuff is intuitive if [...]
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I have been evangelizing this book, Rapt, recently in small circles of friends. Like Stumbling on Happiness, it’s not a self-help book, it deals more with cognition, attention, and social psych than anything.
I thought I’d take the time to post my interesting curations from the book since they are highly related to BettrAt.
– You [...]
Naked Innovation
A few friends of mine (and recent alums) from the Institute of Design have written a book called “Naked Innovation: Uncovering Shared Theory and Practice for Creating Value”– I’m assuming the title is a riff off of Naked Economics, by Charles Wheelan. C’mon guys, you couldn’t have come up with a more “innovative” [...]
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
I finished Blue Ocean Strategy last weekend, but I didn’t get a chance to post my notes or thoughts about it.
For the most part, I think that the high level concept expressed in this book is obvious to [...]
