This link has been bookmarked by 59 people . It was first bookmarked on 21 May 2008, by Juliendubs.
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18 Aug 12
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The fascinating thing is this: I spend 95% of my time persuading people to take action and just 5% of the time on the recipes.
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The recipe that makes up just about any business book can be condensed to just two or three pages. The rest is the sell. The proof. The persuasion.
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1. Decide, before you start, that you’re going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you’re reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn’t to persuade you to change, it’s to help you choose what to change.
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. If you’re going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It’s simple: if three weeks go by and you haven’t taken action on what you’ve written down, you wasted your time.
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. It’s not about you, it’s about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else.
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20 Jul 12
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There’s a huge gap between most how-to books (cookbooks, gardening, magic, etc.) and business books, though. The gap is motivation.
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any business book can be condensed to just two or three pages. The rest is the sell. The proof. The persuasion.
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If you’re reading for the recipe, and just the recipe, you can get through a business book in just a few minutes. But most people who do that get very little out of the experience.
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So, how to read a business book:
1. Decide, before you start, that you’re going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you’re reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn’t to persuade you to change, it’s to help you choose what to change.
2. If you’re going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It’s simple: if three weeks go by and you haven’t taken action on what you’ve written down, you wasted your time.
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25 Jun 12
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1. Decide, before you start, that you’re going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you’re reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn’t to persuade you to change, it’s to help you choose what to change.
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It’s simple: if three weeks go by and you haven’t taken action on what you’ve written down, you wasted your time.
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The single best use of a business book is to help someone else.
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02 Aug 09
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13 Jun 09
andrea hammerI like reading magic books.
I don’t do magic. Not often (and not well). But reading the books is fun. It’s a vicarious thing, imagining how a trick might work, visualizing the effect and then smiling at how the technique is done. One after another, it’sproductivity management books self-improvement inspiration innovation motivation
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16 Feb 09
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25 Sep 08
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There’s a huge gap between most how-to books (cookbooks, gardening, magic, etc.) and business books, though. The gap is motivation. Gardening books don’t push you to actually do something. Cookbooks don’t spend a lot of time trying to sell you on why making a roast chicken isn’t as risky as you might think. The stakes are a lot higher when it comes to business. Wreck a roast chicken and it’s $12 down the drain. Wreck a product launch and there goes your career...
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Effective managers hand books to their team. Not so they can be reminded of high school, but so that next week she can say to them, "are we there yet?"
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Effective managers hand books to their team. Not so they can be reminded of high school, but so that next week she can say to them, "are we there yet?"
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Effective managers hand books to their team. Not so they can be reminded of high school, but so that next week she can say to them, "are we there yet?"
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28 May 08
Jill ONeillHe doesn't address the fact that most business-oriented books have insufficient depth to them to justify the publication. These are not articulate people for the most part; they're hacks who think that there is nothing difficult about writing a book. Then
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21 May 08
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Juliendubsguide to reading books - bring attitude of change to reading, how business books are written and what their focus is - most of book is persuading people to change their behavior
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Brent SordylDecide, before you start, that you’re going to change three things about what you do all day at work. As you’re reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading is to help you choose what to change.
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joe mcgillIt’s simple: if three weeks go by and you haven’t taken action on what you’ve written down, you wasted your time.
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