Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company28 reviews Andrew S. Grove Doubleday Business, 1999 Enriching Personal Real-Life Account by Someone Who Had Managed a Mega-Size Corporation!!! + Great Insight Into a Business Leader's World The real value of this book is that it is written by someone, Andrew Grove, who has actual experiences and managed a start-up right up to a mega successful corporation. There are tons of management and marketing books written by people, based on case-studies and analysis, but lack actual ...             Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.43 reviews Ron Chernow Vintage, 2004 An unbiased look + John D. Rockefeller the Ultimate Industrialist + Great insights into the man: It's J.D.'s world, we only live in it + Unbelievably detailed and comprehensive + AMERICAN MIDAS             The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author287 reviews Richard Dawkins Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Possibly my favorite read of all time + Dissecting "The Selfish Gene" + Life is a watch too complex to create + Un libro indispensable en nuestra biblioteca. + If you read one book on evolution...             Models of My Life (Sloan Foundation Science Series)6 reviews Herbert A. Simon Basic Books, 1992 Learn the Why and How of a Distinguished Life + The Satisficing Animal in Our Bounded Rationality + Another Great Reference + Twentieth-Century Polymath + Renaissance Man of the 20th Century             No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality23 reviews Judith Rich Harris W. W. Norton, 2006 A masterful presentation of how we become who we are + Filling in the gaps. + No Two Alike + Another gem from one of our best thinkers             Genome182 reviews Matt Ridley Fourth Estate Ltd, 2000 Great Read, Interesting Primer on Our Genes + So much more than genetics + serendipitous genes + Excellent Book             Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity12 reviews John Gribbin Random House, 2005 A Beautiful Piece of Literature + logical and scientific integration is profound + Good update of chaos theory + Fantastic book + Cheo-plexity exposed.             The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin14 reviews Benjamin Franklin Touchstone, 2003 How can I give Benjamin Franklin fewer than five stars? + The Greatest American, Period! + This book will make you a better person... + Benjamin Franklin             Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition)126 reviews Robert B. Cialdini Allyn & Bacon, 2000 A good textbook + A must for anyone who wants to be heard in the world of business. + Good Intro to Social Psych + Science of Compliance - Extremely Important and Useful Book             Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)262 reviews Robert B. Cialdini Collins Business, 2007 Should be required reading + Good background + What's the difference between several version of the book? Nutshell review - This should be required reading. It discusses and explains many ways in which we are being influenced and persuaded, often to our detriment. If you want to know how it is done, and how to defend yourself against it, then read this book - a few times.             The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal97 reviews Jared Diamond Harper Perennial, 1992 Diamond is Brilliant + This book is a Great Leap Forward + Jared Diamond answers all those pesky questions about how we choose mates, natural selection A good read for anyone who's interested in anthropology or evolution. One of Diamond's main points in this book is that humans are not so different from our biological cousins, the apes. In fact, he says, we are more genetically close to chimpanzees than some species of orangutans are to other ...             Andrew Carnegie11 reviews Joseph Frazier Wall University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989 Still the definitive bio? + A monumental work - though rather dry at times + World's richest man I studied this book about 25 years ago when I was studying the Homestead Steel Strike, but I'm betting it's still the best all-around balanced and well written portrait of Carnegie. He's got to be about the most interesting of the great late 19th century US capitalists, the biggest rags to riches ...             A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe12 reviews Gino Segre Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 A fascinating and lucid book! + An open invitation to research! + temperature explained.. and the effects it has + A Journey of Discovery from the Birth of Aspirin to Hydrothermal Vents             Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies1073 reviews Jared Diamond W. W. Norton, 2005 Fascinating! + Great subject and treatment - shakey science + Is Western Society truly superior? + Exactly the answers I wanted in twice the length I needed             The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do105 reviews Judith Rich Harris Free Press, 1999 Great book + Purchase review I really enjoyed this book. When I look at my two kids I think, same parents, same household, TOTALLY different kids and wonder what really influences them. It's apparent it's not their parents. This book presents an interesting theory on why kids from the same household can be so different ...             Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In151 reviews Roger Fisher, William Ury, ... Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 More pie + Getting to yes + Getting To Yes - An Education In Negotiating Effectively + A Book Needed by Every Manager in Business             Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information2 reviews Robert Wright Harpercollins, 1989 A merge of sciences to find the meaning of life + Take Your Brain Out of The Box Wright focuses on the theories of digital physicist Edward Fredkin (the universe is a computer), sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson (the universe is united by genes and culture), and Kenneth Boulding (the universe is united through communication as a natural process of evolution). Each man has ...             How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our ...81 reviews Arthur Herman Three Rivers Press, 2002 Loved It + The Scottish Enlightenment! + A dry, yet fascinating and convincing book. + It is True! + A Couple of Problems             The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy31 reviews Robert G. Hagstrom John Wiley & Sons, 1999 Light, enjoyable and enlightening + A lattice of mental models for investing This book presents Buffet's and Hagstrom's portfolio allocation methods. I say Hagstrom's because I think that much of Buffet's allocation methodology remains between Buffet's ears -- and not that of Hagstrom the author. Also, I believe Buffet is more opportunistic; he acts decisively when ...             Investing: The Last Liberal Art7 reviews Robert G. Hagstrom Texere, 2002 Brilliant book, deserves to be widely read + "Investing: The Last Liberal Art" and "Latticework: The New Investing" are the same book + Applying New Paradigms for Insightful Investing + Liberal Arts Light, but Excellent Intro to Investing