eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 14 2007 | business, books, information, MBA, self-education, education, learning, thepugetnews
The Personal MBA site has been relaunched and looks fantastic!
Their slogan is "mastering business through self-education."
Quoted: "You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library." - Will Hunting, "Good Will Hunting"
eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 28 2008 | business, music, books, Amazon.com, Unbox, MP3
Apparently Jeff announced that Amazon will be launching Pay-Per-View streaming service next week. I wonder what that entails and if it will work as well as my Tivo 3/Unbox connection right now? Will I also be able to access music subscriptions?
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 23 2008 | business, books, blog, reading
Quoted: Seth Godin's riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.
ShareViewed: 12 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 31 2007 | business, books, thepugetnews, ereader, kindle, amazon.com
Personal MBA likes the Kindle as a v1 device but like most others, looks forward to the day when he can read all of his material on such a device. So far, only ~30% of the pMBA reading list is available on the device.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 16 2007 | business, books, news, thepugetnews
A NYT piece about Ayn Rand's influence on well known capitalists, including Alan Greenspan.
Quoted: Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,”a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others.
ShareViewed: 5 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | Peter Drucker, business, books, blogs, thepugetnews
A website and blog in support of a new book on the well known manager, Peter Drucker.
Quoted: Delivers keen insights into business in the twenty-first century, while distilling Drucker's advice to management into interrogative guidance on how to strategize and triumph in this new environment
ShareViewed: 4 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 18 2007 | blogs, business, books, thepugetnews
A great collection of "top 5 business books" lists from noted authors and business leaders.
Quoted: Hundreds of business books are published each year. Chances are at least one has the answers you're looking for. But how to find it? U.S. News spoke with 14 leaders from all walks of business life—from academics to entrepreneurs to corporate execs—about the five books they consider indispensable reading for managers.
ShareViewed: 2 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 24 2007 | books, guy kawasaki, business, PDF, free
A link to the PDF of the first chapter of Guy Kawasaki's "Art of the Start." I've been hearing good things.
ShareViewed: 10 Times - eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2007 | news, software, project management, ebook, business, thepugetnews, free, books
You can now read the entire "Getting Real" book from the folks at 37signals online for free. This is my favorite book on building webapps.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 30 2007 | search, library, books, universal library, business, strategy
A third look at Google's book-scanning project, this one from the perspective of somebody who actually uses it in their work.
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