I’ll pretty freely admit that I have a book addiction. I’d like to say I purchase a book, read it, then purchase another one, but that’s just not the case. What usually happens is I get interested in something, go to Amazon, and buy the top two or three books on the subject. As time goes on I collect more and more books until I have a huge stack of half-read books that I have to tackle. I usually get through them, but it’s a big mess.
To make matters worse, I got a Kindle for Christmas. That’s like putting a giant vodka vending machine in an alcoholic’s bedroom and taking away their anti-depressants. I can literally buy a book with a click of a button and have it in front of me within a couple of minutes. The results of my post-Christmas binge are starting to pile up (both in ebooks and real books), so I figured I’d challenge myself to finish all of them before I bought another book. After I finish a book from list the I’ll write up a short review and add some of my own thoughts, the check it off the list. Here she is:
- The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
- Inside the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
- Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
- Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
- Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery
- Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts and Mergers & Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum
- The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
- Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
- Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
- Spin Selling by Neil Rackham
- Solution Selling by Michael T. Bosworth
- Secrets of Question Based Selling by Thomas A. Freese