I read The Age of Engage by Denise Shiffman last July. I continue to refer to it (more pages have my underlines and notes than don’t) and think I’ll give it another read-through because in the past year I’ve seen through experience how spot-on Denise is.
Here’s what resonated most with me. In the “live web”, [...]
I read an interesting thing about decision-making today. It was in cognitive psychologist Gary Klein’s respected book Sources of Power - How People Make Decisions (The MIT Press, 1999). See bottom of post for my comments on and links to the book.
Klein tells the story of Peer Soelberg, instructor of a decision-making course at the [...]
I just started Buyology (Martin Lindstrom, 2008 Doubleday). I didn’t want to buy this book (the title seemed overreaching to me). Why did I? Now that I’m on page 85 I turn warily to the mustard yellow-coloured cover - did my subconscious have a role in this? Why yellow?
Ok I’m over it now .. and [...]
Buy this book
Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki (Portfolio, 2008).
If I could have read this book ten years ago when we were founding our startup, you would have heard me saying “great advice - does not apply to us”, and “interesting .. unless you have a killer app”.
Reading it now I’m practically rolling on the [...]
