Summer Reading
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007For those of you with nothing to do this summer, here is an excellent set of recommended readings from Professor Kevin Williams, who just finished up a successful Venture Capital Workshop for our organization. His course, Innovations in Business Marketing, touches upon many of the issues that these books raise. Enjoy.
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Thomas Sowell, Applied Economics
David Landes, Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some Are So Poor
F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Peter Drucker, The Effective Executive and Innovation and Entrepreneurship and The New Realities or The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management (anything by Drucker)
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty
Fisher, Ury and Patton, Getting To Yes
Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Edward de Bono, de Bono’s Thinking Course
James L. Adams, Conceptual Blockbusting
James A. Autry, The Servant Leader
John C. Maxwell, Thinking for a Change
Thomas Gilovich, How We Know What Isn’t So
Browne and Keeley, Asking The Right Questions
Julian Simon, The State of Humanity , The Ultimate Resource ,
It’s Getting Better All The Time , Hoodwinking the Nation , The Economics of Population
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People