Review:This book is the most honest, real-world, practical guide to starting something new, or restarting something you have always wanted to do, that I have ever read. Acuff's honesty about his own journey to his "awesome" is refreshing, and gives me hope that one day I will be finding mine as well. Read more

Review:Fantastic read that really helped me as I prepare for my first TEDx next month! Even as an experienced speaker, this quick and informative read helped me clarify and organize my thoughts. I know I'll be better than I would have without it. Thanks. Highly recommended for any speaker Read more

Review:I agree with a number of other reviewers that this book is a "must read". It's a "must read" because it fills a hole in the literature on technological change, organisations and strategy. It does this by bringing together a discussion of the following into a single, comprehensive, instructional volume:

> the exponential nature of technological change
> the exponential impact and scale being achieved by organisations exhibiting a distinctive, new set of features (Exponential Org... Read more

Review:Ben deals with the struggle, loneliness and unsecurity CEOs experiment when building and scaling organizations. The book covers the dark side of leading: politics, death spiral,... It does not depict an ideal world but the honest truth of organizations It truly helps you prepare for the hardship of leading As an entrepreneur I have personally experienced a few of the situations and I would have loved to read it a few years ago Read more

Review:I have followed Patrick Debois' DevOps work so I ordered this book as soon I saw the announcement.

This is a well written and comprehensive book on DevOps.

I found Part -II topics particularly useful. This section included topics including

i) Selecting which DevOps value stream to focus on

ii) Expanding DevOps across the organization

iii) How to design your DevOps organization especially the discussion on whether to create a dedicated transformation team, c... Read more

Review:The 5 lessons a millionaire taught me about life and wealth is a great book, especially for those just starting out in this money driven world.
I'm about to go to college, and I already know I am going to start out in the real world with a lot of debt. Using the easily understandable
bullet pointed lessons, I feel more confident I'll be able to get out of that and hopefully become a little wealthy. And, by wealthy, I learned
that I just don't want to have to worry so much about money. I... Read more

Review:Switch takes an ancient metaphor that Jonathan Haidt uses in "The Happiness Hypothesis" and elaborates on it for an entire book. Using plenty of real-life examples and up-to-date research references, Chip and Dan Heath provide a pattern that can be readily followed to help people and organizations make changes -- in themselves, their places of work, an industry or in entire countries.

The Heaths' focus on one aspect of human nature that we all share and we all sometimes struggle with in ... Read more

Review:A fascinating book on innovation, natural monopolies and their eventual downfalls. Great to read from front to back. Would be great to have an updated version that compares the predictions/suggestions in the final chapter (regarding electric vehicles) with what is happening with Tesla Motors and the wider electric vehicle market. Read more

Review:The point of greatest peril in the development of a high-tech market lies in making the transition from an "early market" dominated by a few visionary customers to a "mainstream market" dominated by a large block of customers who are predominantly pragmatists in orientation, according to Geoffrey Moore in the third edition of this book. The gap between early and mainstream markets is what the author refers to as the "chasm", and many entrepreneurial businesses have fallen into it.

The cha... Read more

Review:This is such a great book. My boss introduced me to it and I have already read it twice. I may pick it up again this week since it's been a while. We give it to our customers as a gift and I know they come to love the story too. Anyone can relate t a person going on a retreat and not really being "in" to the concept of a retreat. Thru the story, you see this man come around to the discover of what leadership really is about. I highly recommend it for any age group or career background.
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