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Recent Books I've Read

• The Ideal Team Player
  by Patrick Lencioni
  [ review ] [ buy ]
• The Years of Lyndon Johnson (full series)
  by Robert Caro
  [ review ] [ buy ]
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
  by Michael Lewis
  [ review ] [ buy ]
• A Sense of Urgency
  by John Kotter
  [ review ] [ buy ]
• The Attacker's Advantage: Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities
  by Ram Charan
  [ review ] [ buy ]
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
[ review ] [ buy ]
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
by Jeff Sutherland, JJ Sutherland
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
[ review ] [ buy ]
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
[ review ] [ buy ]
Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0
by Eliot Pepper
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World
by Andrew S. Winston
[ review ] [ buy ]
Steve Jobs
by Brad Stone
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
by Ben Horowitz
[ review ] [ buy ]
Joy Inc: How We Built a Workplace People Love
by Richard Sheridan
[ review ] [ buy ]
Remote: Office Not Required
by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
[ review ] [ buy ]
Leaders Eat Last
by Simon Sinek
[ review ] [ buy ]
Uncommon Stock
by Elliot Pepper
[ review ] [ buy ]
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
by Michael Lewis
[ review ] [ buy ]
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Malcolm Gladwell
[ review ] [ buy ]
Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader's Guide to Planning and Execution
by Pascal Dennis
[ review ] [ buy ]
Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business
by Matt Blumberg (me!)
[ review ] [ buy ]
Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business
by Harley Manning and Kelly Bodine
[ review ] [ buy ]
Revenue Engine: Why Revenue Performance Management is the Next Frontier of Competitive Advantage
by Steven Woods and Alex Shootman
[ review ] [ buy ]
Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City
by Brad Feld
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf
[ review ] [ buy ]
Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick
by Ken Iverson
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Startup Playbook
by David Kidder
[ review ] [ buy ]
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh
[ review ] [ buy ]
Spin Selling
by Neil Rackham
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business
by Patrick Lencioni
[ review ] [ buy ]
Fatal System Error
by Joseph Menn
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Performance Pipeline: Getting the Right Performance At Every Level of Leadership
by Stephen Drotter
[ review ] [ buy ]
Strategy and the Fat Smoker
by David Maister
[ review ] [ buy ]
TouchPoints
by Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard
[ review ] [ buy ]
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
[ review ] [ buy ]
That Used to Be Us
by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
[ review ] [ buy ]
Well Being
by Tom Rath and Jim Harter
[ review ] [ buy ]
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
[ review ] [ buy ]
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
by Marc Weissbluth
[ review ] [ buy ]
Brain Sex
by Anne Moir and David Jessell
[ review ] [ buy ]
Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty
by Patrick Lencioni
[ review ] [ buy ]
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by Laurence Gonzales
[ review ] [ buy ]
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Geoff Colvin
[ review ] [ buy ]
Mastering the 7 Essentials of High-Growth Companies
by David Thomson
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
[ review ] [ buy ]
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
by Liz Wiseman and Greg Mckeown
[ review ] [ buy ]
Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth
by David Thomson
[ review ] [ buy ]
What the Dog Saw, And Other Adventures
by Malcolm Gladwell
[ review ] [ buy ]
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Puritan Gift
by Kenneth and William Hopper
[ review ] [ buy ]
SuperFreakonomics
by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Speed of Trust
by Stephen M. R. Covey
[ review ] [ buy ]
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant.
by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
[ review ] [ buy ]
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
by Chris Anderson
[ review ] [ buy ]
Green Recovery: Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top
by Andrew Winston
[ review ] [ buy ]
Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors
by Patrick Lencion's
[ review ] [ buy ]
Leadership and Innovation: Entrepreneurs in Government
by Jim Doig
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
by Patrick Lencioni
[ review ] [ buy ]
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
by Marcus Buckingham
[ review ] [ buy ]
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by Seth Godin
[ review ] [ buy ]
When Growth Stalls: How it Happens, Why You're Stuck, and What to do About It
by Steve McKee's
[ review ] [ buy ]
In Search of the Obvious: The Antidote for Today's Marketing Mess
[ review ] [ buy ]
Death by Meeting
by Patrick Lencioni's
[ review ] [ buy ]
Who: The A Method for Hiring
by Geoff Smart, Randy Street
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
by Patrick Lencioni's
[ review ] [ buy ]
Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters,
by Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson
[ review ] [ buy ]
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
[ review ] [ buy ]
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
by Jack Trout and Al Reis
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Five Temptations of a CEO
by Patrick Lencioni
[ review ] [ buy ]
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
by Patrick Lencioni
[ review ] [ buy ]
I Quit, But forgot to Tell You
by Terri Kabachnick
[ review ] [ buy ]
How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything in Business (and in Life)
by Dov Seidman
[ review ] [ buy ]
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
[ review ] [ buy ]
Why People Don't Buy Things,
by Kim Wallace and Harry Washburn
[ review ] [ buy ]
Presentation Zen
by Garr Reynolds
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture
by Andrew Keen
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives
by Ted Sargent's
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Better People Leader
by Charles Coonradt
[ review ] [ buy ]
My Startup Life
by Ben Casnocha
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less,
by Barry Schwartz
[ review ] [ buy ]
Microtrends
by Mark Penn
[ review ] [ buy ]
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
by Mitch Albom
[ review ] [ buy ]
Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships
by Ken Blanchard's
[ review ] [ buy ]
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert Putnam
[ review ] [ buy ]
Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People People Who Perform From Those Who Don't
by Ram Charan's
[ review ] [ buy ]
12: The Elements of Great Managing
by Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter
[ review ] [ buy ]
Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business
by Danny Meyer
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern
by David Billington
[ review ] [ buy ]
Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
by Rosabeth Moss Kantor
[ review ] [ buy ]
Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking
by Andy Sernovitz
[ review ] [ buy ]
Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky, and Rich
by Richard St. John
[ review ] [ buy ]
A Country That Works
by Andy Stern
[ review ] [ buy ]
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
by Daniel Esty
[ review ] [ buy ]
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey
by Ken Blanchard
[ review ] [ buy ]
Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of their Evolution
by Geoffrey Moore's
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Corporate Blogging Book
by Debbie Weil's
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Long Tail
by Chris Anderson
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
[ review ] [ buy ]
Little Red Book of Selling
by Jeffrey Gitomer
[ review ] [ buy ]
Naked Conversations: How Blogs Are Changing The Way Businesses Talk with Consumers
by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel
[ review ] [ buy ]
Trade Show and Event Marketing: Plan, Promote, and Profit
by Ruth Stevens
[ review ] [ buy ]
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolki
by Mary and Tom Poppendieck
[ review ] [ buy ]
Instinct: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals
by http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000FL8934/wwwmyblumberc-20
[ review ]
Leading at the Speed of Growth
by Katherine Catlin
[ review ] [ buy ]
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert Cialdini
[ review ] [ buy ]
Aesop & The CEO: Powerful Business Lessons from Aesop and America's Best Leaders
by David Noonan
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Underdog Advantage
by David Morey and Scott Miller
[ review ] [ buy ]
Squirrel, Inc.,
by Stephen Denning
[ review ] [ buy ]
Confronting Reality
by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Smartest Guys in the Room
by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Fred Factor
by Mark Sanborn
[ review ] [ buy ]
Deep Change
by Robert Quinn
[ review ] [ buy ]
Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader
by Craig Hickman
[ review ] [ buy ]
Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Law
by Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy
[ review ] [ buy ]
The Quiet Revolution in Email Marketing
by Bill Nussey
[ review ] [ buy ]
Beyond Bullet Points
by Cliff Atkinson
[ review ] [ buy ]
Business Without Boundaries: An Action Framework for Collaborating Across Time, Distance, Organization, and Culture.
by Don Mankin
[ review ] [ buy ]
The MouseDriver Chronicles: The True-Life Adventures of Two First-Time Entrepreneurs.
by John Lusk and Kyle Harrison
[ review ] [ buy ]

Blogs I Follow:

• A VC
• Andrew Winston
• Andy Sernovitz's Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!
• Ask The VC
• BeRelevant!
• Brad Feld – Colorado VC
• BuzzMachine
• ClickZ News Blog
• Continuations
• David Allen – Productivity
• Deliverability.com
• DM News
• DMNews E-Mail Marketing News Feed
• Email Marketing Insights
• Email Marketing Strategy from Silverpop CEO Bill Nussey
• Foundry Group
• Gotham Gal
• Internet and e-mail policy and practice
• IT Email Infrastructure
• MailChimp Blog
• Maximizing Deliverability
• Multi-Channel Messaging
• Return Path Email Marketing Water Cooler
• School of Hard Knocks
• Seth Godin – guru
• Slice of Lime Blog
• The Email Wars
• The Spam Weblog
• This is going to be BIG.
• Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing
• VerticalResponse Email Marketing Blog for Small Business
• Word to the Wise