Reading List

Really good to think about. If you ever heard the post scarcity world, read this.

The history of the internet told. Great!

Sure, Star Trek is cool, but could it work. Suprisingly many things could some things couldn't.

What if you have a chip in your head that gives you perfect polling data at any time to become president.

One of the best business books ever written. Period.

Understand Hippies. Try at least :) This helps.

Built to Last was good, but what about companies that were good and became great. Wonderful 2nd chapter of one of the best business books out there.

Must read on human psychology. But keep in mind Gladwell is also a sales guy for his talks, which makes it more of a fun read though :)

How to succeed in business by the makers of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails.

If you are into physics, read Feynman.

If you are into physics, read Feynman, period.

If you are into physics, read Feynman. Period. :)

Read this many years ago but it was one of the best business books I read and my quotes list is still filled with Dee Hock quotes from it.

Published first in 1993, this books depicts the changes happening at Semco, the company Ricardo Semler took over from his father in 1980 to turn it in a much studied place to work at.

Here is the chronology of what happened and if you want to know more then you should read the book as it is both highly stimulating as well as amusing.

* 1980 Ricardo took over the company and fired most of the (old) executive staff
* he hired a new CEO who worked at different companies like Sharp and Xerox. The company was transformed in a highly managed entity with tight controls, reports and manuals.
* he hired a new sales manager and they spent a lot of time trying to get their hands on cash to save the company.
* 1983 they went out to buy a company for $500000 at the end doubling their workforce
in comes Clovis Bojikian, ex school teacher and idealist who was to be crucial to the changes about to happen at Semco
* more controls come, tougher management and a lot of people start becoming unhappy
* Ricardo continuously faints and has other health problems and after a visit to a special clinic is diagnosed with the highest level of stress the doctor has ever seen at a 25 year old. He needed to change.
* he starts leaving at 7 no matter what, delegates a lot and tries to remove corporate oppressions. first by removing the security checks with the idea of treating people as adults, which was not easy.
* dress codes are removed
* factory committes are started (members cannot be sacked while on the committee and one year afterwards) and decisions deferred to workers/committees
* weekly meetings are started where decisions are taken that a “manager” does not feel comfortable to do alone
* threw the operational manual out in exchange of common sense (if you need a hotel on a business trip, take whichever you think is right)
* had workers decide on a new plant location
* had top people set their own salaries and have them public
* had profit sharing across everyone
* started having a rule that memos can only be one page with the conclusion as the subject
and this list goes on and on. A very insightful read.

“As I tell our people constantly: we’ve all learned how to answer email on Sundays, but none of us has learned to go to the movies on Monday afternoon. Until we learn that, we are email slaves harnessed to the wicked ways of the Profit and Loss Master.” – Ricardo Semler, Maverick

One of the best books on the future of companies out there. An amazing read that will make your mind bubble up new thoughts by the minute. Greatly recommented.

Great Book about how our Companies of the future should work with many great examples. I will keep this as a reference with lots of amazing links to go deeper.

was a wonderful read.

My holding was named through this book :) Our language is not clear enough. Let's use codes :)

oh those were the times.

great insight by the wonderful tim ferriss

Task is 100 man months for 10 people, and hence it takes 10 months. If you add another 10 people it take 2 years. Read :)

my stock market times. great suspense.

Tipping point was really important.

This man Jim Clark. Must read. :)

I helped in this book, it was my infosync times.

If you are into startups, you need to read this.

great to understand jobs.

needed to read it for the mba and it is a good history book.

again, stock picking at its finest.

Maverick was great, this is only good, but still a must read.

Wonderfully inspiring.

If you invest in the stock market, you must have read this.

Amazing book. Doctors don't know their statistics. :)

How startups are born. From a VC perspective. Great.

Well, I ran benews.com once, the biggest beos news site.

You can't fight the enemy if you don't know it. :)

EQ is more important than IQ

You need to know your SYN and ACK :)

One of the investment bibles.

Great book on negotiation, kind of the bible.

Easy to read and wonderful thoughts to challenge your thinking. How does the brain work, how do we learn.

Thx for Data you can come to other conclusions about the worlds problems. Insightful.

Einfach grandios zu lesen.

Very well done story behind the financial crisis, or one of them.

It's a good book, but I think Schätzing is overdoing it sometimes with the details. So I didn't read every word of it :)

Well written, Good insights, Fun to read. Just a mix of lots of different Genres it seems hence not for everyone.

Super zu lesen mit Spannung bis zum Ende. Fast teilweise zu dunkel, aber freuemich auf weitere Bücher von ihm.

I like it and it is full of examples. I love the concept, but it misses a bit of depth, a solution to achieve the goal of finding the element for everyone, even though he does give hints. I suggest hearing Ken talk. A LOT better :)

For somebody having done agile software development there is not much new and I am not sure it will really help old school managers. It is a good introduction though.

Too dry for my taste. Didn't make it easier that I am already relatively deeply in the subject.

It's actually not too bad :). One import thing to remember is: other people's money.

I love Colbert but I did not get the book

Entertaining

Should read this again in 50 years ;)

couldn't get the point.

Somehow couldn't get over the first few pages