Archive for 'Book Reviews' Category
Book Review: Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
12 October 2006One of the books I read recently, Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, comes from the stacks of popular management books they have at the bookstore. These things get passed around at seminars, and a lot of them are the sort of thing that any executive-type who wants to seem hip will read [...]
Book Review - Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
18 August 2006I’ve recently finished reading Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow. It’s a lengthy biography of one of America’s greatest businessmen - John D. Rockefeller. For those of you unfamiliar with him, he’s a Gilded Age businessman who founded Standard Oil just after the Civil War. He gradually took control [...]