Archive for: Business Book Review

Think and Grow Rich

November 21st, 2012 15 Comments Noah

I just read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. A really powerful book on setting your intention and the power of your subconscious. The key things from this book for me: When you really know what you want, set a plan to accomplish. Let nothing stop you and you will be successful. Pick a [...]

The Power of Habit

November 9th, 2012 12 Comments Noah

I’m trying something new out. I read about a book a week, I write a book report from every book I read (that I selfishly save to my hard drive). I figured it may be helpful to share them with others. This year I’ve formed a fair amount of new habits: morning situp / pushups, [...]

The 18 Books that Changed my Life

September 20th, 2012 1 Comment Noah

A few months ago, I was drinking a Noah’s Mill whiskey (cute) with my good buddy Brian Balfour and talking about life…. During the conversation we got on the topic of books that changed our lives. I want to share them with you. I judge a books success if a year later I am still using [...]

Process, investment and flow. A review of the Toyota Way

July 5th, 2010 17 Comments Noah

TL;DR: Invest in people, setup processes, continual improvement and think in flow. When I was in Bali, Mark from wooden-ships.com took me to see the company’s factory which was amazing. They had been running the business for over 10 years and now had nearly 300 employees. The idea of a business creating that many jobs [...]

Congrats to Ramit Sethi, I Will Teach You to be Rich is #1 book on Amazon

March 24th, 2009 15 Comments Noah

After I graduated Berkeley I wanted to meet some new interesting people. A friend said I should meet this Ramit guy. We agreed on a time and right when he came up to me and told me a joke about his name and women. I was hooked. Fast Forward, 5 years later and he is [...]

Book Report: Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman

April 15th, 2008 7 Comments Noah

With so much discussion about my education post last week on education I thought many people would enjoy reading my summary of Teaching as a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman. I got this book from Jared and must say it’s one of my favorite books of all-time. I included a lot of details because there [...]

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