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Patrick Mc-Kenzie, a writer, entrepreneur, and software business expert who is best known for a 2012 post on salary negotiation
Sahil Lavingia • The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
Yvon Chouinard • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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Theory X and Theory Y that Douglas McGregor developed in the 1960s when he was a professor at MIT. He stated that managers hold one of two sets of beliefs concerning employees: some think employees are inherently lazy and will avoid work whenever possible (Theory X); others think workers can be ambitious, self-motivated, and exercise self-control (
... See moreFrederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
The company’s competitive advantage, it appears, was mostly Carnegie—his relentless pressure, his hounding to reduce costs, his instinct to steal any deal to keep his plants full, his insistence on always plowing back earnings into ever-bigger plants, the latest equipment, the best technologies.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Passion & Pain
At the outset, Ray Kroc wasn’t just competing with other hamburger businesses—he was competing with every other business opportunity around!
Michael E. Gerber • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
At the outset, Ray Kroc wasn’t just competing with other hamburger businesses—he was competing with every other business opportunity around!