Books 01 (May 08 - Oct 08)

[millionairemind]

The Battle for Investment Survival??? I am panting for breath, fighting this monster ..

Glad that you enjoyed the book... me too

[ishak]

From http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

Quick Start
10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks-Beale
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale
The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn

Productivity & Effectiveness
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
The Simplicity Survival Handbook by Bill Jensen
Cut to the Chase by Stuart Levine
The Unwritten Laws of Business by W.J. King
Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun
Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick

Psychology & Communication
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales

Design & Production
Product Design and Development by Karl Ulrich and Steven Eppinger
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler
Getting Real by 37signals
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones

Marketing, Sales, & Negotiation
All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
Indispensable by Joe Calloway
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got by Jay Abraham
The Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gitomer
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
Bargaining For Advantage by G. Richard Shell
3-D Negotiation by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius

Entrepreneurship
The New Business Road Test by John Mullins
Bankable Business Plans by Edward Rogoff
Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy
Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss

Management & Leadership
First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner & James Harter
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen
Hiring Smart by Pierre Mornell
Judgment by Noel Tichy & Warren Bennis
The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan by George Bradt, Jayme Check, & Jorge Pedraza
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
Ethics for the Real World Ronald Howard & Clinton Korver

Strategy & Innovation
Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies by Nikos Mourkogiannis
Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Seeing What's Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
Learning from the Future by Liam Fahey & Robert Randall
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
Green to Gold by Daniel Esty & Andrew Winston

Finance & Analysis
Essentials of Accounting (9th Edition) by Robert N. Anthony and Leslie K. Breitner
The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance by Robert A. Cooke
How to Read a Financial Report by John A. Tracy
Turning Numbers Into Knowledge by Jonathan Koomey
Show Me The Numbers by Stephen Few
Marketing Metrics by Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, and David J. Reibstein
Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

Personal Finance
Your Money or Your Life by Joel Dominguez & Vicki Robin
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley & William Danko
The Lazy Person's Guide to Investing by Paul Farrell
The Boglehead's Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore et al
Work Less, Live More by Bob Clyatt
It's Not About The Money by Brent Kessel

SUPPLEMENT: Business History
Money and Power: The History of Business by Howard Means
Brand New by Nancy F. Koehn
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
Citizen Marketers by Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba
The Book of Business Wisdom by Peter Krass
The Book of Leadership Wisdom by Peter Krass
The Book of Management Wisdom by Peter Krass
The Book of Entrepreneurs' Wisdom by Peter Krass

SUPPLEMENT: Business Reference
Business: The Ultimate Resource from Basic Books
The Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists edited by Gene Marks
Every Manager's Desk Reference from Alpha Books
Finance for the Non-Financial Manager by Gene Siciliano
The Copywriter's Handbook by Robert Bly
Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer
Law 101 by Jay M. Feinman
2008 Business Reference Guide by Tom West

Ishak's Comment: Personally read quite a lot of the above books, quite a good list to start off if you are in management line.

[kennynah]

this above is more like "ishak's library".....wah liao...so many books you have read...good for you man...

((edited to add below after ishak's post below))

ok man..thanks for the recommendations and link...cheers

[ishak]

Haha, not my library, they are from "The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List", a group whose motto is "Mastering Business Through Self-Education".

It was a manifesto originally from http://www.changethis.com/, another good website to check it out.

[kennynah]

for those who are keen on brushing on composition writing (and improving vokewbelary as well). this is also very suitable young children...

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Title : The Short Stories

It is a collection of short stories...i think i just repeated...hahaha...

Hemingway has a great ability to describe very vivid scenes and to extract emotions out of the readers... a great composer of words...

[surfer_z]

Just finished "The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received" collated by Liz Claman
Must congratulate NLB for updating their investment books. Their collection is not only getting better and newer books are arriving their bookshelves quite fast.

[helios]

Just finished "The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received" collated by Liz Claman
Must congratulate NLB for updating their investment books. Their collection is not only getting better and newer books are arriving their bookshelves quite fast.

yo, can surferZ help us to do a book excerpt?

u mean, the NLB in Bras Basah specifically?

arigatÓ gozaimasu

[helios]

Book: The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros
Author: Mark Tier

Do you remember we were on NLP from the wizard book - earlier?

In here, the Author, Mark Tier applies Neuro-Linguistic Programming to investing. NLP is a discipline that says if one wants to be good at something, one has to emulate the thoughts of those who are masters and one's own performance will follow. Mark Tier collects all the information he can on Warren Buffett and George Soros, rewrites them into bulletin points and distills out 23 common elements [bascially, he defines them as winning habits].

I find this book too commercial and lengthy (perhaps, nauseating) to regurgitate into 23 segments (for your information: there are a total of 34 chapters; 250 pages). However, I must say that this book is an efficient way to gain insight into Warren and George without having to read multiple books by or about each man.

It is only towards the end whereby two other investors were mentioned, ie. Carl Icahn and John Templeton. Ahaa ... these last 2 chapters proved to be very entertaining (than the previous chapters) as the Lifelines of Icahn and Templeton were used as in-depth case studies.

Hence, if one happened to chance on this book, do spend 15mins to go through the end parts, and this will be more than sufficient!

Or One can get this free from OCBC Securities?!

[surfer_z]

Just finished "The Best Investment Advice I Ever Received" collated by Liz Claman
Must congratulate NLB for updating their investment books. Their collection is not only getting better and newer books are arriving their bookshelves quite fast.

yo, can surferZ help us to do a book excerpt?

u mean, the NLB in Bras Basah specifically?

arigatÓ gozaimasu

Book Excerpt
This book includes advice from
-John C. Bogle (Founder, Vanguard Group)
-Warren Buffett (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway)
-Bill Gross (Founder and CIO, PIMCO)
-Susan Ivey (CEO, ReynoldsAmerican Inc.)
-A.G. Lafley (Chairman, Procter & Gamble)
-Georgette Mosbacher (CEO, Borghese Cosmetics)
-John Myers (CEO, GE Asset Management)
-Suze Orman (bestselling author)
-Steve Forbes (President, Forbes magazine)

These and dozens of other investment professionals offer their personal secrets of success when it comes to making money. And along the way, they provide their own insights on whether you should diversify your portfolio (or put your cash somewhere else), whether you should pick your own stocks (or let a pro do it for you), if investing in real estate is really the answer to great wealth, if saving a few pennies here and there really do add up, and much, much more.
The book is edited by Claman to be extremely accessible to all investors, regardless of their financial background.

NLB in Toa Payoh...surprised to find many good investment books there...continue my search there....

[helios]

NLB in Toa Payoh...surprised to find many good investment books there...continue my search there...

Wah, Z is digging treasure yeah?

if you find this 1999 version, must PM me hor!! Super-daddy says must get this.

The title: It's Not What Stocks You Buy, It's When You Sell That Counts (by Donald L. Cassidy).