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playerone

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872 posts

241 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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Anyone read anything interesting lately?

The last really good one I read was Felix Dennis' book. I found that a good mix of solid advice and interesting story.

Any suggestions?

insurance_jon

4,099 posts

277 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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nope, but I'll second the Felix Dennis book.

seaninog

513 posts

220 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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Predictably Irrational by Daniel Ariely.

I thought it was compelling reading, especially for anyone in retail sales.

benoli

1,351 posts

220 months

Thursday 16th April 2009
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anything by Peter Drucker
but in particular 'The Practice of Management'

kbf1981

2,351 posts

231 months

Friday 17th April 2009
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The Four Hour Working week - excellent. A lot of useful tips & ideas.

playerone

Original Poster:

872 posts

241 months

Friday 17th April 2009
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kbf1981 said:
The Four Hour Working week - excellent. A lot of useful tips & ideas.
I saw that was rated highly on Amazon.

I ordered a couple of books about marketing to try and get some fresh ideas.

dfen5

2,398 posts

243 months

Friday 17th April 2009
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Bought the Felix Dennis book today, read up to page 162 now and it's hard to put down. First book I've bothered to read past the first few chapters for ages. Not what I was expecting, caused a range of emotions and polarised my view. Looking forward to the rest of it tomorrow.

muppetdave

2,118 posts

256 months

Saturday 18th April 2009
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Not a business text book per se, but I've just finished 'The man who owned the News' about Rupert Murdoch, that was quite interesting.

Red V8

873 posts

258 months

Saturday 18th April 2009
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The Discipline of Market Leaders.... absolutely cracking book, makes yoy really thing about customers.

paul0843

2,007 posts

238 months

Sunday 19th April 2009
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inside steve jobs head,the apple founder..... some interesting perspectives....
on the subject of clinicking products......customer doesnt know what he wants...we tell him...if they had asked henry fords customers what they wanted,they would have asked for a faster horse .....

Brown and Boris

11,838 posts

266 months

Sunday 19th April 2009
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The latest version of 'Handbook of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination' by Todd Nelson. Hoping to take it as my holiday read in a few weeks.

drjazz

65 posts

218 months

Sunday 19th April 2009
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Boo Hoo: A Dot Com Story - great lesson in what goes wrong when you build in too many overheads