Book Reviews

Buy from Amazon Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life’s Work by Steven Pressfield is a book about the passage from the amateur life to a professional practice, written from the point of view of the author’s personal experiences and struggles. It centers around concepts like self-doubt, fear, resistance, how the amateur faces them, and how she must face them to become a professional. From the book: “The difference lies in the way the professional acts in the face of fear. Read more...

Buy from Amazon Hassan Osman has been managing virtual teams for a living for over ten years. In Influencing Virtual Teams, he shares his experience in the form of 17 tactics. The value of these tactics lies not on their novelty, but in that they have been successfully applied over the years to real projects. Although the book is titled “Influencing Virtual Teams”, the tactics on this book can be also applied successfuly to local teams. Read more...

Buy from Amazon Dan Norris is a entrepreneur with an obsession for content marketing. He spent fourteen years launching several businesses and trying to make them profitable. But none of his startups survived. He failed every time. His current company, WP Curve, is profitable and growing over 10% month after month. It is one of the world’s fastest growing WordPress support company. What changed? What did he do different? Read more...

Buy from Amazon The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, by Daniel H. Pink and illustrator Rob Ten Pas. This manga-style novel offers concrete, no-nonsense career advice for young professionals. Johnny Bunko is doing what everybody –parents, teachers, counselors– told him to do. He got good grades at college. He found a promising job at a corporation, where he now works long hours. He tries to do his best. Read more...

Buy from Amazon The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim N. Taleb. Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, commenting about this book, writes that “Our brains are wired for narrative, not statistical uncertainty. And so we tell ourselves simple stories to explain complex thing we don’t–and, most importantly, can’t–know. The truth is that we have no idea why stock markets go up or down on any given day, and whatever reason we give is sure to be grossly simplified, if not flat out wrong. Read more...