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• [+] Branding(22)
  • Trout on Strategy,Capturing Mindshare, Conquering Markets.Jack Trout.
  • Getting It Right The First Time. John Katsaros and Peter Christy
  • The Marketing Playbook. Zagula and Tong. Best read on marketing all year
  • Get Clients Now! C.J. Hayden
  • The Dollarization Discipline. Jeffrey Fox
  • Free Prize Inside. Seth Godin
  • All Marketers Are Liars. Seth Godin
  • Market Busters.Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan
  • Your Marketing Sucks. Mark Stevens. This is the most truthful book on marketing ever
  • The Fall of Advertising & the Rise of PR. Ries and Ries
  • Everybody Wins. Phil Harkins and Keith Hollihan.
  • Blockbusters. Gary .S. Lynn, Richard R. Reilly, The five keys to developing great new products
  • The Marketing Playbook. Zagula and Tong
  • Focus. The Future of Your Company Depends on it. Al Ries.
  • The New Rules of Marketing and PR. How to use news releases, blogs, podcasting, viral marekting & online media to reach buyers directly. Davdi Meerman Scott.
  • How to destroy competitors’ business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 6 of 7
  • Hidden in Plain Sight. How to find and execute your company's next big growth strategy. Erich Joachimsthaler
  • Selling to Vito (The Very Important Top Officer) Antony Parinello
  • Bang! Linda Thaler & Robin Koval
  • Customer Satisfaction is Worthless. Customer Loyalty is Priceless. Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Accidental Branding. How ordinary people built extraordinary brands. David Vinjamuri.
  • groundswell. winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
• [+] Communication(3)
  • Presentation Zen. Simple ideas on presentation design and delivery. Garr Reynolds
  • The Back of the Napkin. Solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. Dan Roam
  • groundswell. winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
• [+] Event(1)
  • I draw your attention to a Rocket Academy workshop. The Product Launch Workshop
• [+] Fiction(8)
  • The Shockwave Rider. John Brunner
  • All Tomorrow's Parties. William Gibson
  • Pattern Recognition. William Gibson.
  • Spook Country. William Gibson.
  • Stand on Zanzibar. John Brunner
  • Knights of Black & White and Standard of Honour. Books 1 and 2 of the Templar Trilogy. Jack Whyte.
  • The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini
  • Summer fiction: Times Eye (Arthur C. Clarke) and The Poe Shadow (Matthew Pearl)
• [+] Finance(14)
  • The Only Sustainable Edge. John Hagel III and John Seeley Brown,The theory behind The World is Flat
  • My Life as A Quant. Reflections on physics and Finance. Emmanuel Derman.
  • The First Venture Capitalist. Udayan Gupta
  • Start Late, Finish Rich. David Bach
  • The Naked Investor. John Lawrence Reynolds.Why almost everybody but you gets rich on your RRSP
  • The New Normal. Roger McNamee.
  • Rich Dad - Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Revolutionary Wealth. How it will be created and how it will change our lives. Alvin and Heidi Toffler
  • How to destroy competitors’ business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 7 of 7
  • Ride the Wave. Sherry Cooper
  • Cracking the Value Code. Boulton, Libert and Samek
  • Living on the Fault Line. Geoffrey Moore et al
  • Fooled by Randomness. The hidden role of chance in life and markets. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
  • The truth about wall street and government fraud. Gunther Karger
• [+] International(19)
  • The Only Sustainable Edge. John Hagel III and John Seeley Brown,The theory behind The World is Flat
  • Inevitable Surprises. Peter Schwartz
  • The Power of Productivity. William W. Lewis
  • The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. C.K. Prahalad
  • A short history of nearly everything. Bill Bryson
  • The World Is Flat. Thomas I. Freidman
  • End of the Line. Barry C. Lynn
  • The 86% Solution. Vijay Mahajan & Kamini Banga
  • China Shakes the World. James Kynge
  • The J Curve. Ian Bremmer
  • Bangalore Tiger. Steve Hamm
  • What the Bleep Do We Know? The Movie.
  • Inside the Olympics. Dick Pound. A behind the scenes look, plotics, sandals and the glory
  • Revolutionary Wealth. How it will be created and how it will change our lives. Alvin and Heidi Toffler
  • How to destroy competitors’ business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 5 of 7
  • Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy. Daniel Altman
  • The Mind of the Strategist. The art of japanese business. 1982 Kenichi Ohmae.
  • When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. A memoir of Africa. Peter Godwin
  • Myself and Other More Important Matters . Charles Handy
• [+] Lead generation(26)
  • Trout on Strategy,Capturing Mindshare, Conquering Markets.Jack Trout.
  • Bag The Elephant. Steve Kaplin
  • Guerilla Marketing for Consultants. Jay Conrad Levinson
  • The Marketing Playbook. Zagula and Tong. Best read on marketing all year
  • Selling is dEAD. Marc T. Miller & Jason M. Sinkovitz
  • Geoffrey Hansen and Reg Nordman founded Rocket Bui...
  • The Green Banana Papers. Chris Coleman
  • The Irresistible Offer. Mark Joyner
  • Knock Your Socks Off Prospecting. Miller & Zemke.
  • All Marketers Are Liars. Seth Godin
  • Duct Tape Marketing. The World's Most Practical Small Business Marketing Guide. John Jantsch
  • How To Sell More In Less Time With No Rejection. Using Common Sense Telephone Techniques. Art Sobczak
  • The New Rules of Marketing and PR. How to use news releases, blogs, podcasting, viral marekting & online media to reach buyers directly. Davdi Meerman Scott.
  • How to destroy a competitors business model. Web 2.0 style. in seven parts
  • Add-On Selling. How to squeeze every last ounce of sales potential from your calls. Jim Domanski
  • How to destroy competitors’ business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 6 of 7
  • Hidden in Plain Sight. How to find and execute your company's next big growth strategy. Erich Joachimsthaler
  • Its Not Rocket Science. Mitchell Gooze
  • The Secret to Selling More: It's Not Where You've Been Looking, If It Were, You'd Have Found It Already. Mitchell Gooze.
  • Pyro Marketing. The four step strategy to ignite customer evangelists and keep them for life. Greg Stielstra
  • The New Influencers. A marketers guide to the new social media. Paul Gillin
  • Content as a weapon, knowing that clients find you first.
  • 80% of Decision Makers read email on a PDA
  • Presentation Zen. Simple ideas on presentation design and delivery. Garr Reynolds
  • selling against the goal. How corporate sales professionals generate the leads they need. Kendra Lee
  • groundswell. winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
• [+] Leadership(91)
  • LuckyMan. Michael J Fox
  • The First Venture Capitalist. Udayan Gupta
  • Icon. Steve Jobs. The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business.
  • Let My People Go Surfing. Yvon Chouinard.
  • Passionate & Profitable. Lior Arussy.
  • A Business and Its Beliefs. Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
  • The Tycoons. Charles R. Morris
  • Leadership, Rudolph W. Giuliani.
  • The Power of Nice. Thaler & Koval
  • Are you a villian or superhero- results of my survey
  • Success Built To Last. Porras, Emery & Thompson.
  • Hardball.Geo. Stalk, Rob Lachenauer. Are you playing to play or playing to win?
  • I am going Live tonite! Speaking to tomorrows leaders of industry
  • AIESEC talk- BC chapter of tomorrows leaders
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Patrick Lencioni.
  • You Don't Have to Do It Alone. Axelrod et al.
  • Bad Boy Ballmer. The Man who Rules Microsoft. Frederic Alan Maxwell.
  • Alexanders the Great's Art of Strategy. Partha Bose.
  • Building the Bridge as You Walk on It. Robt. E. Quinn.
  • Strategy as Destiny. Robt A. Burgelman
  • The Saint the Surfer and the CEO. Robin Sharma.
  • The Slow Pace of Fast Change. Bhaskar Chakravorti
  • Warfighting. The US Marine Corps Book of Strategy
  • The Trusted Leader. Galford & Drapeau.
  • Execution. Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan. The discipline of getting things done
  • Purpose. The Starting Point of Great Companies. Nikos Mourkogiannis
  • Maximium Influence. The 12 universal laws of power persuasion. Kurt W. Mortensen
  • You've Got to be Believed to be Heard. Reach the first brain to communicate in business and in life. Bert Decker
  • Soldier Statesman Peacemaker. Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall. Jack Uldrich
  • Jeff Bezos on Company culture (from Change or Die -Alan Deutschman)
  • Change or Die. Alan Deutschman. The three keys to change at work and life.
  • Why companies hire outside experts (part 1)
  • Why companies hire outside experts (part 2 of 3)
  • Why companies hire outside experts (part 3 of 3)
  • The Jelly Effect. How to make your communication stick. Andy Bounds.
  • The Innovative Leader. How to inspire your team and drive creativity. Paul Sloane.
  • How to destroy a competitors business model. Web 2.0 style. in seven parts
  • How to destroy competitors' business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 2 of 7
  • How to destroy competitors’ business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 3 of 7
  • How to destroy competitors’ business model. Web 2.0 style. Part 4 of 7
  • No Yelling. The 9 secrets of Marine Corps leadership you must know to win in business. Wally Adamchik
  • Your management sucks. Mark Stevens
  • Social Intelligence. The new science of social relations. Daniel Goleman
  • Inside Facebook. Life, Work, and Visions of Greatness. Karel M. Baloun.
  • Coolhunting. Chasing down the next big thing. Peter Gloor & Scott Cooper
  • the dip. A little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick). Seth Godin
  • Pornified. How pornography is damaging our lives, our relationships, and our families. Pamela Paul
  • Leading the Revolution.Gary Hamel. ISBN 1578511895.
  • Shaping the Adaptive Organization. Wm Fulmer.
  • Speed is Life . Bob Davis.
  • Creative Destruction. Why companies that are built to last underperform the market- and how to successfully transform them. Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan.
  • The Mind of the Strategist. The art of japanese business. 1982 Kenichi Ohmae.
  • Lords of the Rings. Vyv Simpson.
  • Unfinished Business. Roger Douglas.
  • The Trusted Advisor. David Maister
  • Aligning the Stars. Jay W Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
  • Practise What You Preach. David H. Maister
  • Invisible Advantage. Jonathan Low/ Pam Cohen Kalafut
  • The Strategy Machine. Building your business one idea at a time Larry Downes
  • The Most Effective Organization in the United States. Robt. Watson
  • BIll Gates by Robert Heller.
  • Work 2.0. Bill Jensen
  • The New New Thing. Michael Lewis.
  • The Innovators Solution. Clayton Christensen
  • The Great Game of Business. Jack Stack
  • Warfighting. The US Marine Corps Book of Strategy
  • The Art of the Long View. Peter Schwartz
  • Word of Mouth Marketing. How smart companies get people talking. Andy Sernovitz
  • Fooled by Randomness. The hidden role of chance in life and markets. Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
  • New Ideas From Dead CEOs. Lasting lessons from the corner office. Todd G. Buchholz
  • small is the new big. and 183 other riffs, rants and remarkable business ideas. Seth Godin
  • Influence. The Psychology of Influence. Robert B. Cialdini
  • Marketing Champions. Practical strategies for improving marketing's power, influence, and business impact. Young, Weiss, & Stewart
  • What made Jack Welch Jack Welch. How ordinary people became extraordinary leaders. Stephen H. Baum & Dave Conti
  • Motivating the "What's In It For Me?" Workforce. Manage across the generational divide and increase profits. Cam Marston.
  • The Dream Manager. Matthew Kelly.
  • Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World. Keith Yamashita & Sandra Spataro
  • Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Doing what's obvious but not easy. David Maister.
  • Customer Satisfaction is Worthless. Customer Loyalty is Priceless. Jeffrey Gitomer
  • News from the trenches- The sales process starts before you think it does
  • Starting Something. An entrepreneur's tale of control, confrontation and corporate culture. Wayne McVicker
  • Remarkable Leadership. Unleashing your leadership potential one skill at a time.
  • Is your company worthy enough to employ a headhunter ?
  • Marketing Genius. Peter Fisk.
  • The Art of Possibility. Transforming professional and personal life. Rosamund and Ben Zander
  • Accidental Branding. How ordinary people built extraordinary brands. David Vinjamuri.
  • 2011 Trendspotting for the Next Decade. Richard Laermer.
  • Riches in Niches. How to make it big in a small market. Susan Friedmann
  • The Innovators Guide to Growth. Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work. Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield, Elizabeth Altman
  • Customer Loyalty Guaranteed. Create, Lead and Sustain Remarkable Customer Service. Chip R. Bell & John R. Patterson.
  • The Halo Effect. ..and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers. Phil Rosenzweig
• [+] Lifeskills(63)
  • LuckyMan. Michael J Fox
  • Good Business. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The Attention-Deficit Workplace. Mitch Thrower.
  • The Wisdom of Crowds. James Surowiecki
  • A short history of nearly everything. Bill Bryson
  • TurboCoach. Brian Tracey & Campbell Fraser.
  • Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes. Andy Goodman.
  • The Creative Habit. Twyla Tharp
  • Younger Next Year. Crowley & Lodge
  • The Power of Nice. Thaler & Koval
  • Fantastic Voyage. Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Ray Kurzweil & Terry Grossman
  • The Naked Investor. John Lawrence Reynolds.Why almost everybody but you gets rich on your RRSP
  • What the Bleep Do We Know? The Movie.
  • Building the Bridge as You Walk on It. Robt. E. Quinn.
  • Inside the Olympics. Dick Pound. A behind the scenes look, plotics, sandals and the glory
  • Change management research Millers Bolt. Thomas Stirr.
  • Rich Dad - Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • The Saint the Surfer and the CEO. Robin Sharma.
  • The Art of the Long View. Peter Schwarz
  • 14 Reasons Corporate Speeches Don't Get the Job Done. Marian Woodahl
  • The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell. How little things make a difference
  • Lunar New Years Greetings From Rocket Builders
  • Maximium Influence. The 12 universal laws of power persuasion. Kurt W. Mortensen
  • You've Got to be Believed to be Heard. Reach the first brain to communicate in business and in life. Bert Decker
  • This time this Sunday I will heading to Matei Pointe, Fiji- Is it still raining in Vancouver?
  • Change or Die. Alan Deutschman. The three keys to change at work and life.
  • The 4-Hour Workweek. Escape 9-5,live anywhere, and join the new rich. Timothy Ferris
  • Lifehacker. 88 tech tricks to turbocharge your day. Gina Trapini
  • My Blog roll
  • Covert Persuasion. Psychological tactics and tricks to win the game. Kevin Hogan
  • The Innovative Leader. How to inspire your team and drive creativity. Paul Sloane.
  • Bit Literacy. Productivity in the Age of Information and E-Mail overload. Mark Hurst
  • No Yelling. The 9 secrets of Marine Corps leadership you must know to win in business. Wally Adamchik
  • Social Intelligence. The new science of social relations. Daniel Goleman
  • the dip. A little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick). Seth Godin
  • Wining in Kelowna and getting benched in Naramata
  • Pornified. How pornography is damaging our lives, our relationships, and our families. Pamela Paul
  • The Tiger Woods Way, by John Andrisan.
  • Golf and Business: A summary
  • Steven Forth's book list
  • Work 2.0. Bill Jensen
  • Rich Dad - Poor Dad Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • The Saint the Surfer and the CEO. Robin Sharma.
  • They Don't Teach Corporate in College.A twenty-something's guide to the business world. Alexandra Levit
  • What made Jack Welch Jack Welch. How ordinary people became extraordinary leaders. Stephen H. Baum & Dave Conti
  • Motivating the "What's In It For Me?" Workforce. Manage across the generational divide and increase profits. Cam Marston.
  • Fishing for Love on the Net. A guide for those searching for love. Myles Reed Jr.
  • Customer Satisfaction is Worthless. Customer Loyalty is Priceless. Jeffrey Gitomer
  • Negotiation Boot Camp. How to resolve conflict, satisfy customers, and make better deals. Ed Brodow
  • Life's Secrets- There really aren't any, an anthology of excerpts of author Tim Connor. Guest Review - Brock Nordman
  • Carpe Phonum. How to seize the phone, take action and call your prospects, even when you lack courage. Tammy Stanley
  • Savvy Networking. 118 fast & effective tips for business success. Andea R. Nierenberg
  • Fun with Food and Fermented Beverages. Ashley Walkley.
  • Presentation Zen. Simple ideas on presentation design and delivery. Garr Reynolds
  • The Complete Turtle Trader. The legend, the lessons, the results. Michael W. Covel.
  • The Art of Possibility. Transforming professional and personal life. Rosamund and Ben Zander
  • The Go-Giver. A little story about a powerful business idea. Bob Burg & John David Mann.
  • Myself and Other More Important Matters . Charles Handy
  • It's All Right Here. Life and affairs organizer. Mark Gavagan
  • Sway. The irresistible pull of irrational behavior. Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman
  • The Last Lecture. Randy Pausch.
  • So how did you spend your weekend?
• [+] Management(134)
  • Everything I needed to know about business...I Learned From A Canadian.
  • Made in America. Sam Walton & John Huey
  • Who Says Elephants Can't Dance. Louis. V. Gerstner.
  • Inevitable Surprises. Peter Schwartz
  • Freakonomics. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
  • Good Business. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Client at the Core. Aquila & Marcus
  • The Attention-Deficit Workplace. Mitch Thrower.
  • Geoffrey Hansen and Reg Nordman founded Rocket Bui...
  • Dealing with Darwin. Geoffrey Moore
  • Let My People Go Surfing. Yvon Chouinard.
  • Market Busters.Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan
  • The World Is Flat. Thomas I. Freidman
  • 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators. Vijay Govindarajan & Chris Trimble.
  • Passionate & Profitable. Lior Arussy.
  • Managing Customers as Investments. Gupta & Lehmann.
  • Blueprint to a Billion. David G. Thomson
  • Direct From Dell. Michael Dell
  • The Long Tail. Chris Anderson
  • A Business and Its Beliefs. Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
  • Selling Air. Dan Herchenroether
  • House of Lies. Martin Kihn
  • The Tycoons. Charles R. Morris
  • Winning. Jack Welch.
  • The Wal-Mart Effect. Charles Fishman
  • Mavericks at Work. Wm. Taylor & Polly LaBarre.
  • The Likeability Factor. Tim Sanders
  • Wikinomics. Don Tapscott & Antony Williams.
  • Hardball.Geo. Stalk, Rob Lachenauer. Are you playing to play or playing to win?
  • Venture.Jeff Cox. Cox co-wrote The Goal and Zapp!
  • Double Digit Growth. Michael Treacy
  • Why Smart Executives Fail. Sydney Finkelstein. And what you can learn from their mistakes
  • Everybody Wins. Phil Harkins and Keith Hollihan.
  • The New Normal. Roger McNamee.
  • Everything I Know About Business I Learned from Monopoly. Alan Axelrod.
  • Business the Rupert Murdoch Way. Stuart Crainer.
  • Bad Boy Ballmer. The Man who Rules Microsoft. Frederic Alan Maxwell.
  • Microsoft. First Generation. Cheryl Tsang.
  • The Professional Service Firm 50. Tom Peters.
  • Seeing What's Next. Clayton Christensen
  • The Art of the Start. Guy Kawasaki.
  • Change management research Millers Bolt. Thomas Stirr.
  • The Goal. Eli Goldratt
  • The New Market Leaders. Fred Wiersema. Who's winning and how in the battle for customers
  • The Art of the Long View. Peter Schwarz
  • The Slow Pace of Fast Change. Bhaskar Chakravorti
  • A Stake in the Outcome. Jack Stack
  • Warfighting. The US Marine Corps Book of Strategy
  • Guts! Kevin and Jackie Freiberg.
  • The Great Game of Business. Jack Stack.
  • Silicon Follies. Thomas Scoville. A dot comedy
  • Inside Intuit. Suzanne Taylor, Kathy Schroeder.
  • The Trusted Leader. Galford & Drapeau.
  • Execution. Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan. The discipline of getting things done
  • The Tipping Point. Malcolm Gladwell. How little things make a difference
  • The Innovators Solution , Clayton Christensen
  • The Power of Corporate Kinetics. Fradette and Michaud
  • The Leaky Funnel. Hugh MacFarlane. A diamond from Australia
  • David Maister Podcast. What kind of provider are you?
  • My Blog roll
  • Why companies hire outside experts (part 1)
  • Why companies hire outside experts (part 2 of 3)
  • Why companies hire outside experts (part 3 of 3)
  • The three things a CEO can do to help Sales. Tips from a CEO