Book Review: Don’t Picture Me Naked
Book Review: Don’t Picture Me Naked by Michelle Bowden How long does it take to write a book? I wrote my first book in two weeks.My second took one week and I wrote The Cuckoo in a single day. Michelle Bowden took ten years to write her book Don’t Picture Me Naked! Now, this is […]
Hot Books For 2010
Hot Books for 2010Let’s start the new year with some hot books to look out for. I’ve got my crystal ball out to look for books that will have an impact in 2010. Firstly, a word of warning: I’ve only read the first book. I have purchased the second one. And, the rest… I’m going […]
Best Books of the Decade
Best Books of the Decade What better way to round out the decade than declare the best books I’ve read during this time.So, how do you choose the best books you’ve read? I felt I had to go with the ones that have changed how I see the world and how I act in it. […]
10 Hot New Books from Book Rapper’d Authors
10 Hot New Books from Book Rapper’d AuthorsMany of the authors of books we’ve rapped are serial offenders. They keep writing more books! So, here’s a list of new books from the authors of ones we’ve covered in previous Book Rapper issues. Note, the dates… a couple are so hot they haven’t been released just […]
Review: Gary Vaynerchuk ‘Crush It!’
Review: Gary Vaynerchuk: Crush It! Why Now is the time to Cash in on your Passion Who said you had to be a great writer to create a great book? In another example of ‘the world has changed’ Gary ‘I can’t write’ Vaynerchuk has just produced a worthy best seller with his first book. Of […]
Made to Stick and the Sticking Point – Update
The Made to Stick book has become a classic. I know that because it now has it’s own Wikipeda page. Now, that’s an interesting measure of SUCCEs… Frank Sinatra sang about New York, ‘If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere’. Perhaps, Wikipedia has now replaced New York as the centre of […]
Our Must Read Business Books List
Hopefully, by now you’ve worked it out. Our previous post 12 Must Read Business Books was an April Fools Day Hoax. Hope you got a laugh, I know I did creating the list. If you want more, here’s a link to the Top 100 April Fools Hoaxes of All Time or here’s our 10 Hot […]
12 Must Read Business Books
Here’s the Book Rapper 12 Must Read Business Books for April 2009… Good to Broke: Why some companies completely mess things up and others don’tJim Collins The Zero Hour Work Week: How to spend your time waiting for the Post-Global Financial Meltdown recoveryTimothy Ferriss Book Yourself Silly: The fastest, easiest and most reliable system for […]
The Five Most Important Questions
Just finished reading Peter Drucker’s The Five Most Important Questions. It reminds me of an old story… A business executive returns to college to meet up with his favourite professor who is approaching retirement age. The exec arrives a little early and sits in on the last part of the professor’s lecture. Later over coffee, […]
Free Chris Anderson!
No he’s not in jail. At least not that I know of…Chris Anderson, author of “The Long Tail” is working on his next book “Free” – due out in 2009.As is usual for most authors, a second book is going to be a continuation of their first in some form and Anderson follows this path. […]