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Reviewing books since 2003.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Last call: JBTC Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Entrepreneurship

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I know that those of you on the semester system are desperately trying to finish up the semester, but please don't forget that your abst...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Reading :: Pitch Anything

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Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal By Orem Klaff Pitch Anything is a set of technique...

Reading :: The Organization Man

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The Organization Man By William H. Whyte, Jr. I had a very odd moment when reading this classic, oft-mentioned book from 1956. In Chapter...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Topsight > Slide decks

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Are you teaching (or learning) from Topsight ? If so, I hope you'll find my Topsight slide decks to be useful. These decks are a ver...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Reading :: The Innovator's Dilemma

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The Innovator's Dilemma By Clayton M. Christensen The Innovator's Dilemma is a "classic bestseller," according to the ...

Reading :: Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit

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Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit By Frank H. Knight This 1921 classic argues that to understand profit, we must recognize the roles of risk ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Reading :: Joseph A. Schumpeter

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Joseph A. Schumpeter By Richard Swedberg Joseph Schumpeter infamously declared that "Early in life I had three ambitions: to be the ...

Reading :: The Culture of Entrepreneurship

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The Culture of Entrepreneurship Edited by Brigitte Berger This collection is the product of a 1990 conference by the same name, supported...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Reading :: The Wealth of Nations

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations By Adam Smith The above link is (perhaps ironically) to the free Kindle ve...

Reading :: Anti-Duehring

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Anti-Duehring By Friedrich Engels The link above goes (again) to the Kindle collection of works by Marx & Engels. But you can easily ...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

(failure is like poison)

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Here's something I told my class the other day. People don't like failure. They see it as a bad thing. And it can be. It can be te...
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(perfectionists and pragmatists)

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Here's something I told my class a couple of weeks ago. Here are two strategies for getting things done: perfectionism and pragmatism...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

iConference 2016: Final Call for Papers

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If you haven't done so already, consider attending iConference 2016. CFP is below: iConference 2016 papers are due Wednesday, Septembe...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Reading :: Researching Entrepreneurship

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Researching Entrepreneurship By Per Davidsson This research text is a little quirky. In fact, I have noticed that a lot of research metho...

CFP: Special issue of JBTC on the rhetoric of entrepreneurship: Theories, methodologies, and practices

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JBTC  has just published the call for papers for my special issue . The link goes to the published CFP in JBTC , which you'll need a s...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Reading :: The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union

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The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union By Elizabeth Weinberg A month or two ago, I accidentally discovered that Stalin banned s...

Reading :: One is Not Born a Personality

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One Is Not Born a Personality: Profiles of Soviet Education Psychologists By K. Levitin I ran into citations of this book recently when r...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Reading :: The Origin of Species

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The Origin of Species By Charles Darwin Late this summer, I mentioned to a colleague that I had just finished Adam Smith's The Wealth...

Reading :: Running Lean

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Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works By Ash Maurya At the end of this book, Maurya tells us: "A book, like large ...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Read my articles in the UT Repository

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Interested in one of my articles, but can't find a free copy? Unwilling to pay lots of money to download one from a journal? Or just wan...
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