Business Owner’s Blog

The titles comes from a great article in the Wall Street Journal by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. It highlights his experience with giving stuff away for free on the web. His results are a mix of plus and minus. Great read.
You may not know that besides being funny, Adams is a very perceptive thinker […]

Soon after I posted about “The 4-Hour Workweek” I continued reading and got pretty mad. The book was way over the top. Then it got better but only slightly. Here’s the DEAL. Deal is actually Ferriss’ word. The book is divided into 4 parts (I had read the first two before the last post - […]

I’m reading “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss and it’s so good I have to post about it before I’m done. Why are my free offers (see below) always around book reviews? I have no idea.
Bad News First (In deference to The Toyota Way )

Yes there is an element of luck. Just like Ferriss, I’m […]

I’ve extended the free offer (due to heavy blog promotion this week).
I have an autographed copy of the book by Dan Pink. I’ll give it away for FREE to a randomly chosen reader who emails or comments how they found out about this blog. Send your email or post your comment by midnight, eastern […]

I have an autographed copy of the book by Dan Pink. I’ll give it away for FREE to a randomly chosen reader who emails or comments how they found out about this blog. Send your email or post your comment by noon, eastern time on Friday 4/28.
A Whole New Mind is about how economic changes […]

I’m barely a third of the way through this book and already want to recommend it. Don’t wait for me to finish - get reading. Porportedly based on habits that Harnish learned from reading about John D. Rockefeller (say what you will about the man’s morals, he did build a large profitable company) the book […]

Would your life be improved if you could influence others better?

Check out this interview posted by Guy Kawasaki. And be sure to take the test

The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (Paperback) by Peter F. Drucker
Almost everything that needs to be said about business management was said by Peter Drucker before anyone else. He coined the term “knowledge worker” before the Internet or even the PC was developed. […]