Sunday, October 31, 2010

一百本最佳商業書籍 - The 100 Best Business Books of All Time

一百本最佳商業書籍 - The 100 Best Business Books of All Time

成功致富有沒有捷徑?答案是有的,而且是有三條路可以選,一是 出生時有個有錢老爸。二是 年輕時找個有錢老公(或老婆) 三是 年老時不小心中到樂透。 如果這三條捷徑都遇不到,只好下點苦功唸點書,相信這些推薦的商業書籍唸完之後,即使不能賺錢,也會幫助你未來不賠錢喔。


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EMBA雜誌編輯部/文

今年四月,公司雜誌(Inc.)適逢出刊三十週年,因而特別選出了企業主管應該閱讀的三十本書。這份書單從一七七六年亞當史密斯所寫的國富論,到去年由哈佛大學企略大師麥可波特推出新版的競爭論,足足橫跨四個世紀。

The Business Owner's Bookshelf
30 books you should read and put to use

By: Inc. Staff

Published April 2009



1. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter Bernstein (1996)
From the ancient Greeks' belief that the universe was divvied up in a game of craps to Keynes's assertion that uncertainty makes us free, this lively economic history helps readers understand why we think -- and bet -- the way we do.

2. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, by Guy Kawasaki (2004)
The author has aptly described this book as the start-up version of What to Expect When You're ExpectingKawasaki offers a broad, opinionated, often-shrewd blueprint for early stagers.
. From his early exhortation to create a mantra (as opposed to a mission statement) through his final mandate to be a "mensch" (give something back),
3. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson (2006)
Next time you are shipping alarm clocks to Singapore without thinking twice about freight costs, thank Malcom McLean, the trucking entrepreneur who battled labor and government to make it possible. This excellent history proves that sometimes the simplest answers are the most revolutionary.

4. Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, by Nancy F. Koehn (2001)
The compelling stories of six admired companies (the others are H.J. Heinz, Marshall Field's, Estée Lauder, and Starbucks) remind us that great brands aren't clever marketing constructs. Rather, they emerge from founders' deep understanding of the worlds they and their customers inhabit.

5. The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions, by Scott Adams (1996)
Managers can learn more from the man with the antigravity tie than from a shelfful of books on organizational dynamics.

6. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber (1995)
"Work on your business, not in it" may be the most oft-quoted piece of wisdom in the entrepreneurial vernacular. Gerber urges readers to develop systems that allow their companies to operate even without them. This book doses starry-eyed entrepreneurs with much-need perspective.

7. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, by Peter Drucker (1967)
Drucker's classic prescriptions for decision making and time management are common sense, yet nonobvious. "In every area of effectiveness within an organization, one feeds the opportunities and starves the problems." "If there is any one 'secret' of effectiveness, it is concentration." Nobody does it better.

8. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Senge (1990)
In the '80s, everyone talked about continuous improvement. Then, MIT's Senge showed us how to do it. Virtually every trait associated with 21st-century success (speed, flexibility, collaboration) is discussed here.

9. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (1999)
The authors studied surveys of a gazillion people and discovered those undifferentiated masses yearn to be treated as individuals. The manifesto of one-to-one management.

10. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't, by Jim Collins (2001)
This book raised the aspirations of millions of business people and introduced at least some humility to the corner office. Collins's message -- about understanding what you can be best at, preserving the core, and sublimating personal to organizational ambition -- remains an essential signpost for wanderers on Leadership Lane.

11. The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company, by Jack Stack (1992)
The term open-book management didn't exist when Stack, CEO of Springfield Remanufacturing, started giving employees the education and the data to track their company's -- and their own -- performance. Stack is equally instructive and open in chronicling the experience.

12. Growing a Business, by Paul Hawken (1987)
More than 20 years after this book's publication, few equal its blend of pragmatism and values. An early proponent of the role of passion in business, Hawken speaks directly to the ambitious but overwhelmed and often isolated founder.

13. Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston (2006)
Companies that fight against the green tide risk poisoning relationships with customers, investors, and governments. This manual smartly balances opportunity and risk in the quest to shrink companies' environmental footprint.

14. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie (1936)
Of course, your salespeople and managers should read this self-improvement classic. But Friends is also about leadership. "There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything," writes Carnegie, "and that is by making the other person want to do it."

15. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Clayton Christensen (1997)
Christensen shook up the business world with his insight that paying close attention to customers can hurt if your company is blindsided by a "disruptive technology."

16. Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, by Thomas A. Stewart (1997)
This book is an unanswerable argument for valuing your company's collective knowledge as much as the contents of its warehouses and factories. Stewart explains with lucidity and wit how to create, wrangle, and exploit intangible assets.

17. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham (2008)
Brodsky and Burlingham write Inc.'s Street Smarts column; The Knack similarly brings readers into the thick of running an entrepreneurial business.

18. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, by Yvon Chouinard (2005)
An eloquent manifesto for the socially and environmentally conscious business. The founder of Patagonia may be a reluctant businessman, but he is also an unusually thoughtful one.

19. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Don't, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (2007)
The Heath brothers identify qualities of memorable and effective ideas wherever they occur, in one of the most useful and entertaining marketing books to come along in years.
20. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, by Michael Lewis (1999)
Follow along as Jim Clark, the zillionaire founder of Silicon Graphics, chases after his next paradigm-shifting venture. A fascinating profile of the beyond-type-A entrepreneur and a wry anatomy of Silicon Valley in the boom years.

21. Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, by Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg (1996)
Corporate culture is a squishy term, until you look at Southwest Airlines -- and suddenly the possibilities become clear.

22. Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy (1983)
The Web has changed how things are sold, but it hasn't changed what sells. The founder of Ogilvy & Mather emphasizes research, brands, and big ideas. On copywriting, he's still king. And he always makes excellent company.

23. On Competition, by Michael Porter (2008)
Before you choose a strategy -- hell, before you choose an industry -- consult Porter's greatest hits. He distinguishes between operational effectiveness, which means doing things well (think Japan circa 1985), and competitive strategy, which means doing things differently or doing different things (think entrepreneurs circa forever).

24. Personal History, by Katharine Graham (1997)
We have heard several women CEOs cite this memoir by the former owner of The Washington Post as the most important tome in their leadership libraries. Coming into herself as a leader, Graham is an unexpected yet courageous exemplar of the socially seismic second half of the 20th century.

25. Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang (1997)
Schultz's humble origins, his succumbing to a passion for a product, and his ongoing pursuit of servant leadership are genuinely inspirational.

26. Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham (2005)
For decades, company owners thought they had two choices: accept perpetual mom-and-pop-ism or pursue torrid growth. Small Giants posits a third option -- be modest in scale but also an extraordinary employer, vendor, or community citizen.

27. Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder (1981)
This Pulitzer Prize–winning account of a team of Data General engineers rushing to complete a next-generation computer was published the year IBM introduced its PC. Back then, the technologists and work methods described must have seemed like exotic birds. Today, they are familiar, but Soul remains a bravura piece of journalism and foundational history of the tech sector.

28. The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith (1776)
For anyone curious about the fundamentals of modern economic theory, Smith's synthesis of earlier ideas laid the groundwork for laissez-faire capitalism. As we struggle with self-interest run amuck and debates over government intervention in business, Wealth deserves a revisit.

29. What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business, by Joan Magretta and Nan Stone (2002)
We love the authors' belief in management's role as the guarantor of everyone's well-being and their refusal to treat case study subjects as paragons. And we admire their humble goals: "You will…understand what management is capable of on a very good day. And on those bad days when things are going wrong, you will be far more likely to figure out what needs to be fixed."

30. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, by James Surowiecki (2004)
Surowiecki's exploration of the power of group intelligence grows ever more relevant. Technology makes this entertaining work of behavioral economics dangerous to ignore.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/the-business-owners-bookshelf_pagen_3.html



一,Against the Gods。作者:Peter Bernstein,中譯本:馴服風險。

二,The Art of the Start。作者:Guy Kawasaki。

三,The Box。作者:Marc Levinson,中譯本:箱子。

四,Brand New。作者:Nancy Koehn。

五,The Dilbert Principle。作者:Scott Adams,中譯本:呆伯特法則。

六,The E-Myth Revisited。作者:Michael Gerber。

七,The Effective Executive。作者:Peter Drucker。

八,The Fifth Discipline。作者:Peter Senge,中譯本:第五項修練。

九,First, Break All the Rules。作者:Marcus Buckingham等,中譯本:首先,打破成規。

十,Good to Great。作者:Jim Collins,中譯本:從A到A+。

十一,The Great Game of Business。作者:Jack Stack,中譯本:春田再造奇蹟。

十二,Growing a Business。作者:Paul Hawken,中譯本:實現創業的夢想。

十三,Green to Gold。作者:Daniel Esty等,中譯本:綠色商機。

十四,How to Win Friends and Influence People。作者:Dale Carnegie,中譯本:讓鱷魚開口說人話。

十五,The Innovator's Dilemma。作者:Clayton Christensen,中譯本:創新者的兩難。

十六,Intellectual Capital。作者:Thomas Stewart,中譯本:智慧資本。

十七,The Knack。作者:Norm Brodsky等。

十八,Let My People Go Surfing。作者:Yvon Chouinard,中譯本:任性創業法則。

十九,Made to Stick。作者:Chip Heath等,中譯本:創意黏力學。

二十,The New New Thing。作者:Michael Lewis,中譯本:以新致富的矽谷文化。

二十一,Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success。作者:Kevin Freiberg等,中譯本:西南航空。

二十二,Ogilvy on Advertising。作者:David Ogilvy,中譯本:大衛‧歐吉沛談廣告。

二十三,On Competition。作者:Michael Porter。

二十四,Personal History。作者:Katharine Graham,中譯本:個人歷史。

二十五,Pour Your Heart Into It。作者:Howard Schultz等,中譯本:STARBUCKS咖啡王國傳奇。

二十六,Small Giants。作者:Bo Burlingham,中譯本:小,是我故意的。

二十七,Soul of a New Machine。作者:Tracy Kidder,中譯本:打造天鷹。

二十八,The Wealth of Nations。作者:Adam Smith,中譯本:國富論。

二十九,What Management Is。作者:Joan Magretta等,中譯本:管理是什麼。

三十,The Wisdom of Crowds。作者:James Surowiecki,中譯本:群眾的智慧。


文章來源:EMBA網站(2009年6月)

http://www.emba.com.tw/ShowArticleCon.asp?artid=7367

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Best Books for CEO – Mark’s Top 10 Picks


This is a fairly eclectic mix. It was tough for the older books to make the list – sort of like hickory shafts. These all provide a profound idea, a useful framework or all of the above. Be sure to let me know if you have any favorites we can add in the next addition.

Mark


The Last Word on Power – Tracy Goss - The CEOs job is to make the impossible happen. This book does a superb job of explaining how the CEO’s prior success blocks future achievement, and then, explains in detail how to get out of your own way. The book is superb and should be mandatory reading for any CEO that is transforming their company.

The Goal – Eliyau Goldratt – A book about logistics management, sort of. Applies equally well to different kinds of industries. Quirky in style, but has influenced a number of our CEOs.

The Profit Zone – How Strategic Business Design Will Lead You to Tomorrow’s Profits – Adrian Slywotski, David Morrison – Identifies how companies make or lsoe strategic postion and move into or out of profit zones. Great examples and questions. Original ideas with the tools for implementing them.

The Effecitve Executive – Peter Drucker – How can a book written almost 50 years ago possibly be meaningful in today’s Internet world? Amazingly, the book is as relevant today as it was then. It remains the only book on how effective managers actually get things done. Its should be CEO-101 in your curriculum.

Spin Selling – Neil Rackham – This thorougly-researched book focuses on making large complex sales. The method is logical, is easy to follow and implement, and has been used effectively by many of our CEOs. If your company does large account sales, this book provides a valuable blueprint.

Faster Company – Building the World’s Nuttiest Turn on a Dime Billion Dollar Business – Patrick Kelly 1998 - There are very few books written by CEOs that explain how to grow a company from small to mid-sized. I knew Pat when his company was $10 million in sales (he was in my home town of Jacksonville), and watched in admiration as he grew to be the first national physician supply company. It happened just the way he said.

Berkshire Hathaway – Chairman’s Letters – 1977-99. www.berkshirehathaway.com. Not a book, but should be. 23 chapters of business education from the best modern day investor/CEO. So you think you’re a good CEO, read these from start to finish and feel humble.

Corporate Lifecycles: How and why corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About it – Ichak Adizes
Companies, like humans have different problems depending on their stage of evolution. The internet economy moves through the stages faster, but they still apply. It’s a great test for any CEO.

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – James Collins and Jerry Porras – The authors compare the habits of few market leaders with the next “best in class” to see if there is a difference. The conclusions were simple and not rocket science. Will this book translate to the new economy? Our CEO Project research indicates that the most successful companies use these principles, but most companies do not. Ignore at your own risk.

Living on the Fault Line – Managing for Shareholder Value in the age of the Internet - Geoffrey Moore – Mandatory reading for high tech CEOs. Builds on his earlier books but adds new material. Does a great job of clarifying why past leaders drop off and gives a clear strategic roadmap for high tech CEOs on how to create shareholder value.


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Best Business Books: The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List

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Productivity & Effectiveness
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks-Beale
Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
The Human Mind
Brain Rules by John Medina
Driven by Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
Communication
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath
Decision-Making
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond et al
The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
Learning from the Future by Liam Fahey & Robert Randall
Ethics for the Real World by Ronald Howard & Clinton Korver
Creativity & Innovation
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
Project Management
Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun
Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick
Opportunity Identification
The New Business Road Test by John Mullins
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy
Entrepreneurship
Bankable Business Plans by Edward Rogoff
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
The Knack by Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
Value-Creation & Design
Getting Real by 37signals
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
Marketing
All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin
Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
Citizen Marketers by Ben McConnell & Jackie Huba
The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert Bly
Sales
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
The Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gitomer
Negotiation
Bargaining For Advantage by G. Richard Shell
3-D Negotiation by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
Value-Delivery
Indispensable by Joe Calloway
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt
Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones
Management
The Unwritten Laws of Business by W.J. King
First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner & James Harter
Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen
Hiring Smart by Pierre Mornell
The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
Leadership
Total Leadership by Stewart Friedman
Tribes by Seth Godin
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan by George Bradt et al
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
Judgment by Noel Tichy & Warren Bennis
Finance & Accounting
Accounting Made Simple by Mike Piper
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
Analysis
Turning Numbers Into Knowledge by Jonathan Koomey
Marketing Metrics by Paul W. Farris et al
Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik
Show Me The Numbers by Stephen Few
Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer
Corporate Skills
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
The Simplicity Survival Handbook by Bill Jensen
Cut to the Chase by Stuart Levine
Corporate Strategy
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
Green to Gold by Daniel Esty & Andrew Winston
Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
Consulting
Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss
Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg
Personal Finance
Your Money or Your Life by Joel Dominguez & Vicki Robin
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley & William Danko
The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore et al
Fail-Safe Investing by Harry Browne
Work Less, Live More by Bob Clyatt
It’s Not About The Money by Brent Kessel
Personal Development
Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina
Re-Create Your Life by Morty Lefkoe
Changing for Good by James O. Prochaska et al
Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale
The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn
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Comprehensive List of Best Business Books

By Dan Coughlin

Here are my recommendations, which have been organized by topics:

Productivity
Less is More by Jason Jennings
Think Big, Act Small by Jason Jennings
It’s Not the Big that Eat the Small, It’s the Fast that Eat the Slow by Jason Jennings

Leadership
On Leadership by John Gardner
Personal History by Katherine Graham
My American Journey by Colin Powell
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson
My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
Walt Disney by Neal Gabler
Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
They Call Me Coach by John Wooden
Wooden by John Wooden
Leading with the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski
Leadership & Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey
Think Big by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey
Leadership is an Art by Max Depree
The Gettysburg Gospel by Gabor Boritt
Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches unabridged by Abraham Lincoln, John Grafton, and Roy Basler

Management
Inside Steve’s Brain by Leander Kahney
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker
The Unofficial Guide to Power Managing by Alan Weiss
Winning by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
The Spirit to Serve by Bill Marriott

Teamwork
Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis and Patricia Biedermann
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson
Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Russell Rules by Bill Russell
The Winner Within by Pat Riley
A World Waiting to be Born by Scott Peck

Strategy
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
The Discipline of Market Leaders by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
Profit from the Core by Chris Zook
Beyond the Core by Chris Zook
Top Management Strategy by Ben Tregoe and John Zimmerman

Marketing/Branding
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy

Innovation
The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley
The Elegant Solution by Matthew May

Organizational Performance
Built to Last by Jim Collins
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker
The Google Story by David Vise and Mark Malseed
Leading By Design by Ingvar Kamprad and Bertil Torekull
The Pixar Touch by David Price
The HP Way by David Packard
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

Personal Effectiveness
Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Living a Life that Matters by Harold Kushner
Raising the Bar by Tim Rosaforte
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
It’s Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong
The Dip by Seth Godin
Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert
Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman
From Promise to Power by David Mendell
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon
Secrets for Success and Happiness by Og Mandino
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
I Dare You by William Danforth
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
First Things First by Stephen Covey
The Essence of Success by Earl Nightingale
The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
Law of Success by Napoleon Hill
Success through a Positive Mental Attitude by Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer edited by Thomas Kiernan

Investing
The Snowball by Alice Schroeder
Warren Buffett Speaks by Janet Lowe

Sales
The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

Inspiration
The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Consulting
Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss
Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss

Physical Fitness
The Best Life Diet by Bob Greene

Problem Solving
The New Rational Manager by Ben Tregoe and Charles Kepner

Presentations/Writing
Pop! Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn
Presenting with Pizzazz by Sharon Bowman
Ask Not by Thurston Clarke
The Dream by Drew Hansen

Global Trends
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan

Management Lessons from Auto Racing
One Helluva Ride by Liz Clarke
At the Altar of Speed by Leigh Montville
The Enzo Ferrari Story by Enzo Ferrari
Winners are Driven by Bobby Unser
Racing to Win by Joe Gibbs
McLaren Formula 1 Racing Team by Alan Henry
Racing Back to the Front by Jeff Gordon
Michael Schumacher by Christopher Hilton

Management Lessons from the American Revolution
A Leap in the Dark by John Ferling
1776 by David McCullough
The Summer of 1787 by David Stewart
American Creation by Joseph Ellis
Thomas Paine by Craig Nelson
Thomas Jefferson by R.B. Bernstein
Common Sense by Thomas Paine


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當然囉~上面書看完之後,別忘了買本今年的暢銷書:The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
再看看裏面的100本書介紹,台灣博客來書局也有賣喔。

The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You

Profiles one hundred top-selected business books identified by the authors as the most valuable for today’s busy professionals, in a reference that is complemented by informative sidebars that recommend movies, novels, and children’s books that can impart insights comparable to the lessons in the profiled business books. 40,000 first printing.

http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F011570512

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

請相信,生命會有自己的出口

請相信,生命會有自己的出口。

只要你給它的時間夠久。

給自己繼續走下去的勇氣,只要繼續走下去,出口,就會在下一個轉彎的地方。

當你感到低潮時,當你落到生命底端時,請找一個最適當的方式,將自己的身
心安頓在一個平靜的領域裡,然後將一切交給時間,時間一久,該沉的會沉,
該浮現的會浮現。

沉澱的是過往與情緒,浮現的是經驗和轉機。

無論喜或悲,我永遠感謝,生命所給我的一切。

一生座右銘 (與大家分享)

一生座右銘 (與大家分享)

別人是說了在做
我是做了在說
別人是說了不一定做
我是做了不一定說

該做什麼,會不會做什麼是我的自由,管其他人怎麼看怎麼想,不要太偏離人群就好

真正做了很多的人,絕不會說他做了很多
真正沒做什麼的人,絕不會說他做了很少,更不會說他沒做了什麼

說來說去,我也犯了像樓主說的「知道該幹什麼,但是不一定會做」的毛病 Orz

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator

Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In contrast to other HTTP accelerators, many of which began life as client-side proxies or origin servers, Varnish was designed from the ground up as an HTTP accelerator.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_(software)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Programming Languages are Like Women

Programming Languages are Like Women

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There are so many programming languages available that it can be
very difficult to get to know them all well enough to pick the
right one for you. On the other hand most men know what kind of
woman appeals to them. So here is a handy guide for many of the
popular programming languages that describes what kind of women
they would be if programming languages were women.

Assembler - A female track star who holds all the world speed
records. She is hard and bumpy, and so is not that pleasant to
embrace. She can cook up any meal, but needs a complete and
detailed recipe. She is not beautiful or educated, and speaks in
monosyllables like "MOV, JUMP, INC". She has a fierce and
violent temper that make her the choice of last resort.

FORTRAN - Your grey-haired grandmother. People make fun of her
just because she is old, but if you take the time to listen, you
can learn from her experiences and her mistakes. During her
lifetime she has acquired many useful skills in sewing and
cooking (subroutine libraries) That no younger women can match,
so be thankful she is still around. She has a notoriously bad
temper and when angered will start yelling and throwing dishes.
It was mostly her bad temper that made grandad search for another
wife.

COBOL - A plump secretary. She talks far too much, and most of
what she says can be ignored. She works hard and long hours, but
can't handle really complicated jobs. She has a short and
unpredictable temper, so no one really likes working with her.
She can cook meals for a huge family, but only knows bland
recipes.

BASIC - The horny divorcee that lives next door. Her specialty
is seducing young boys and it seems she is always readily
available for them. She teaches them many amazing things, or at
least they seem amazing because it is their first experience.
She is not that young herself, but because she was their first
lover the boys always remember her fondly. Her cooking and
sewing skills are mediocre, but largely irrelevant, it's the
frolicking that the boys like. The opinion that adults have of
Mrs. BASIC is varied. Shockingly, some fathers actually
introduce their own sons to this immoral woman! But generally
the more righteous adults try to correct the badly influenced
young men by introducing them to well behaved women like Miss
Pascal.

PL/I - A bordello madam. She wears silk dresses, diamonds, furs
and red high heels. At one time she seemed very attractive, but
now she just seems overweight and tacky. Tastes change.

C - A lady executive. An avid jogger, very healthy, and not too
talkative. Is an good cook if you like spicy food. Unless you
double check everything you say (through LINT) you can unleash
her fierce temper. Her daughter C++ is still quite young and
prone to tantrums, but it seems that she will grow up into a fine
young woman of milder temper and more sophisticated character.

ALGOL 60 - Your father's wartime sweetheart, petite, well
proportioned, and sweet tempered. She disappeared mysteriously
during the war, but your dad still talks about her shapely form
and their steamy romance. He never actually tasted much of her
cooking.

Pascal - A grammar school teacher, and Algol 60's younger sister.
Like her sister she is petite and attractive, but very bossy.
She is a good cook but only if the recipe requires no more than
one pot (module).

Modula II - A high-school teacher and Pascal's daughter. Very
much like her mother, but she has learned to cook with more than
one pot.

ALGOL 68 - Algol 60's niece. A high-society woman, well educated
and terse. Few men can fully understand her when she talks, and
her former lovers still discuss her mysterious personality. She
is very choosy about her romances and won't take just any man as
her lover. She hasn't been seen lately, and rumor has it that
she died in a fall from an ivory tower.

LISP - She is an aging beatnik, who lives in a rural commune with
her hippie cousins SMALLTALK and FORTH. Many men (mostly college
students) who have visited the farmhouse,-- enthusiastically
praise the natural food, and perpetual love-ins that take place
there. Others criticize the long cooking times, and the abnormal
sexual postures (prefix and postfix). Although these women seldom
have full-time jobs, when they do work, their employers praise
them for their imagination, but usually not for their efficiency.

APL - A fancy caterer specializing in Greek food. She can cook
delicious meals for rows and rows of tables with dozens of people
at each table. She doesn't talk much, as that would just slow her
work down. Few people can understand her recipes, since they are
in a foreign language, and are all recorded in mirror writing.

LOGO - A grade-school art teacher. She is just the kind of
teacher that you wish you had when you were young. She is shapely
and patient, but not an interesting conversationalist. She can
cook up delicious kiddie snacks, but not full-course meals.

LUCID & PROLOG - These clever teenagers show a new kind of cooking
skill. They can cook-up fine meals without the use of recipes,
working solely from a description of the desired meal (declarative
cooking). Many men are fascinated by this and have already
proposed marriage. Others complain that the girls work very
slowly, and that often the description of the meal must be just as
long as a recipe would be. It is hard to predict what these girls
will be like when they are fully mature.

Ada - A WAC colonel built like an amazon. She is always setting
strict rules, but if you follow them, she keeps her temper. She
is quite talkative, always spouting army regulations, and using
obscure military talk. You gotta love her though, because the
army says so.

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by: Daniel J. Salomon Department of Computer Science, University
of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

[雜感] 寫給要出社會的人

最近出社會的thinker跟朋友聊到出社會新鮮人這個話題
把一些處世小雜感寫在這裡

分享給一些將出社會的小朋友

一、沒有人有義務教你
這點真的太重要了

社會的關鍵字是「存活」  而不是「學習」雖然人家說「社會大學」  在社會還是可以學習
但其實社會根本就不是大學  沒有人有義務教你你想知道的事
告訴你這樣做會爆炸  那樣做大家會討厭你
真的要學習  也是從失敗經驗中學  或是從別人身上偷看偷問偷學
對老闆來說  你不會  比起教你  我另請高明還比較省事
對上司來說  我只負責管好公司  不負責帶你長大
對同儕來說  多教你只會浪費我時間  甚至影響我積效
對朋友來說  也許好意點你一下  聽不懂就算了  何必為這種事撕破臉

某些事的「眉角」  某個環境的行規  都不是平白大放送的

有個朋友曾跟我說過  他在當兵時  新訓宿舍牆上貼了一張紙這樣寫:
「菜不是該死  菜是罪該萬死」那時隨便聽聽的我  出社會之後才真的對這句話深切身受

哪怕今天一個人比你早來一天  公司什麼事情他比你懂
哪怕專業上是個遜砲  前輩就是前輩
沒事多招呼  多招呼沒事  沒事多偷學  多偷學沒事
怎樣的學歷出身  怎樣的理論專業  怎樣的夢想抱負  暫時放到一旁吧
在否定環境之前  沒法立足沒有空間
沒法向旁人證明自己的價值
一切都是白搭

畢竟菜就是罪該萬死啊


二、認清網路的侷限性
網路常有一個特性,叫「存活者偏誤」
看似資訊四通八達的平台  在一些情況下反而會讓你悲觀而且視野受限

家庭幸福美滿  上婚姻版放閃光的人相對少 (放一放搞不好還會被砲)
被老公婆婆欺凌  上網討拍取暖的人卻很多
投資理財大有心得  大發慈悲上網分享的人少
不知所措或賠了一屁股  只好上網問明牌的人卻很多
攝影專業人士case都接不完  沒閒沒心情上mobile01去嘴砲
整天問器材打口水戰的阿宅卻從來沒少過
練家子閉門苦練  謙沖自牧
網路上講得一口好工夫的人又有幾兩重呢

你得到一個爽工作
有個了不得的創業機會
是不吭聲自己A下來都來不及  還是在網路上大聲嚷嚷巴不得一堆人跟你搶??

照這個邏輯  上網去問一群大多不知道自己在幹嘛的人??
問一群時間多到上網打嘴砲  或可年到要跟陌生人討拍的人
能得到多少有建設性的建議呢??

生涯問題  婚姻感情問題  職業問題  人生問題
我個人認為  上網去尋找本身  就是一個很值得質疑的動作
當然不是說砂礫裡沒有珍珠
但如果你有從砂礫找到珍珠的能力  又何需上網去問別人的意見呢??

我輩宅宅中人  每天玩玩網路並非問題
但把它當做重要事情的判準  或是某種自信的來源
或是嫌平常生活太順利  非得上網大發議論
跟不認識的人筆戰成一團
就真的是有點時間太多了啊

充實自己都來不及了不是嗎

三、人脈遠比你想得重要
呼應上一點  很多問題要問對人找對人幫忙
任何遇到的人事物都是你的資源
不管你認不認同他的想法  或是主觀上喜不喜歡他
他都可能在人生路上拉你一把
碰到任何人  虛心多學  廣結善緣
是一個後生晚輩在社會上必備的態度

首先  每個人都可能有你沒有的
知識學問  生活技能  處世眉角  或專業技能
既然社會已經沒義務教你
怎麼能不趁機會多聽多看多學呢??
跟你專業無關的  多聽長見閒
跟你專業有關的  虛心多學習

人家講錯的  聽了也沒差
人家講對的  多聽不用錢
哪怕只是多聽一個故事  多學一套軟體或工具
都是划算不是嗎

再來更功利的  這世界真的很小
你怎麼知道這個萍水相逢的人
會不會在你找工作  開公司  甚至找另一半的時候幫上一忙??
你怎麼知道這個你得罪過的人
會不會在你昇遷  請調  或有求於人的時候踩你一腳??

以直報怨  以德報直  想想真的很有道理
有機會時  盡量在愈多人心中留下愈多好印象
甚至心機一點花時間去經營
多打招呼  多留印象  事前提醒  事後補強
都是幫自己製造機會
 (不要說自己不擅長這種鬼話  這種事沒人生下來擅長)

綜合第二點  有時間在網路上跟不認識的人說五四三
還不如多找機會出席各種場合交際  實際認識一些前輩大老 打入一些圈子
更想辦法讓他對你的臉你的名字你的專長有所印象

怎麼看都是更划得來的投資  不是嗎

四、存活優先,夢想次之,自尊為輕上面三點應該還滿老生長談
不過最後這個應該算我自己的小體悟跟小結論這樣

跟學校考高分選志願  「選己所愛  愛己所選」的邏輯大不相同
在社會  存活才是最優先的價值

我們剛出社會  常常就在天人交戰
「什麼比較有發展性」「什麼比較適合自己」
「怎樣才是我真正想要的」  (這句話最近好夯啊)
殊不知這都是因為大家念書給家裡養的時間太長  實在太優渥
不用擔心存活的問題  才可以一下就跳到夢想的層次

然而事實上  連自己都養不活的人  沒有資格談什麼夢想
連錄取分數都夠不上的人  沒有資格講什麼科系比較適合
連工作都找不到的人  沒資格講什麼工作比較適合自己
低層次的存活都辦不到  不要談什麼自我實現的問題
一個在餐廳端盤子的waiter  展場的show girl
從社會跟經濟的角度看  為台灣社會創造的價值跟GDP

也超過前幾年還在念書當米蟲的thinker
念博士是有個屁了不起??  爸媽斷糧還不就是餓死路邊
嘴砲打得再好  分數也不會比較高

再來  如果你能survive  行有餘力  到了可以考慮夢想這個層次
請不要在意自己會不會被稱讚被肯定   不要在意無謂的自尊
不要在意大家會不會對你拍手說  你果然是專家好棒棒

被多罵多虧多修理  多半有助生存跟接近夢想
至少可以讓你知道什麼地方需要調整

說「我不懂  請教我」可以學到更多東西的時候  幹嘛不說?
說「對不起我是笨蛋」老闆會教你更多的時候  幹嘛不講?
我執太重修養不好  做不到就請多努力多加油
至少不要傻到桌子一拍臉就臭起來  留下沒能給人探聽的惡名

虛名不值幾分錢  學到就是自己的
還是說你的夢想  比不值錢的虛名還廉價??

老闆每個月給你薪水  不是請你來學東西
不是為了讓辦公室和樂融融大家都是好朋友
更不是為了誇讚你  讓你自我感覺良好  感覺受重用受肯定

如果工作還跟你小時的夢想沾上邊

還可以讓自己閒來沒事想到的時候  覺得不算有白活  做做十年後自己會更威的白日夢
就算每天被老闆狗幹  已經是個很棒的工作了
不然是還有啥好要求的??

總之以上就是亂寫一通這樣
最近可能也到了愛倚老賣老的年紀了
就以一個出社會一小段時日的老人
整理一點點自己跟朋友在社會打滾的小小經驗
寫給版上一些小朋友分享
也順便自我提醒


Reference:
http://thinker.pixnet.net/blog/post/27196156