Project Design Books – Twelve of the Best

Three Gifts

The thing that I am most proud of around Project Passion is that it was fuelled by Book Rapper. Yep, re-reading my own material provided the insight I needed. It’s a neat reminder for me about the value of great books and the RAPs as a quick reference guide. Thus, this list of Project Design […]

Anti-Self-Help Slideshow

 Anti-Self-Help : How to Succeed in a about 10,000 hours – with a little help from your friends. This Book Rapper slideshow is derived from two books: Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success Geoff Colvin, Talent is Overrated: What REALLY separates World Class Performers from Everybody Else. Anti-Self-Help – The Certain Path to Success […]

How to Succeed in 10,000 Hours

The Books Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers AND Geoff Colvin’s Talent is Overrated – A special issue double act! The Big Idea Success is not simply a function of talent. In fact, ‘natural’ talent may have very little to do with it at all. Speed RAP To be a world-class performer requires two specific factors: the community […]

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 […]

The ‘Free’ Debate

One of the fun questions that is often asked at dinner parties and in light-hearted interviews is “Who would you most like to have dinner with?” The question conjures up the image of a bunch of important people sitting around the table and chewing the fat over a lively debate of world-changing ideas. The internet […]

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 […]