Good Business Books Part II

A few weeks back I posted a little bit of a rant on there not being any good new business books and I heard from more than a few of you about it and I loved it. Many of you agreed and many of you didn’t.

So let me try and clarify.

I’m not going to stop reading, quite the opposite, I’m going to redouble my efforts and try and read even more than I already do, just faster. My frustration really came out of buying the same book three times in the same month. No, not the same title, but in essence the same book because each publisher saw that one was successful and so published a knock off as quick as they could with promise that it was significantly different. That is my real issue, I don’t like buying the same book three times and I would like to see more original thinking, but I understand and accept that they same idea can have many applications.

I do believe that the closer you look at things the more things change. So, I’ll keep looking and I’ll keep writing. In the meantime, check out this book, it is very good.

The Essential CIO edited by Richard Pastore and Edward Prewitt. It is a group of targeted essays from CIO magazine. While the essays are directed at the CIO, they are really great and tightly written leadership lessons that can and should be applied by growing companies. This short tome is only 179 pages, but you’ll enjoy every word, I know I did.