Books I’ve Been Reading

The End of Jobs [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

The End of Jobs by Taylor Pearson is a book about the changing expectations of success in the world. “Globalization means you are no longer competing to be more knowledgeable than the person down the street, but more knowledgeable than seven billion people...

Mini-Habits [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Mini Habits by Stephen Guise is the book I’ve been writing in my head for years. Well, almost. It’s about intentionally forming good habits by setting the bar really, really low. Mini-Habits is a highly practical book. Unlike The Power of Habit, for example, which...

Traction [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers can act like a extended cheat sheet while trying to figure out your business is going to get customers. When businesses startup, they have a lot of different options. So many it can feel overwhelming. At almost any stage...

Hooked [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Hooked by Nir Ayal is a book in the same vein as The Power of Habit, but with a focus on how technology can be used to harness that power. “How to build habit forming products” the tagline says. The book has received critical acclaim, and made its way to a...

Growth Hacker Marketing [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Growth Hacker Marketing, by Ryan Holiday is a synopsis of the advancing “growth hacker” trend in marketing. Holiday was a marketing VP at 25, “self taught, self made”, and distraught to learn that his professional title was being given to someone new, the...

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is a eminently readable book, mostly novelized, about why teams fail and what they need to work and perform at a high level. “If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you...

Bluebeard [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

As is likely obvious from the books I write about here on my website, I don’t read too many novels. I often find them dragging. I don’t mean that they’re boring to read, I mean that I start to drag while I read them. I find it difficult to read only one chapter, but...

The Power of Habit [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

I said to a group of friends over the weekend, “Hey, I just started reading this great book called The Power of Something”. Everyone laughed because it’s always a book about the power of something or other with me. Perhaps that’s my habit—I see a book title promising...

Project Management [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

Project Management: A Compact Guide to the Complex World of Project Management by Jefferson Hanley is a brief overview of the big, scary concept of business project management. When I say ‘brief’ I mean it. I selected, bought, read and finished the book before my...

The 11 Laws of Likability [Review]

by William | Book Reviews

The 11 Laws of Likability, by Michelle Tillis Lederman is another book legislating business something-or-other into a neat little list. It’s a book I picked up to support, or challenge, or validate my efforts to approach the business community and discover my own...