{"id":54,"date":"2009-03-05T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.12sided.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-03-05T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T13:00:58","slug":"recent-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Recent Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three recent business books that I have read, enjoyed and recommend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393333949?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=12sidedcom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0393333949\">The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=12sidedcom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0393333949\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Nicholas Carr<br \/>\nSummary: Carr argues that computing, no longer personal, is going the way of a power utility.<\/p>\n<p>Why I liked it: The historical perspective matches the current cloud computing trend. Nice parallels, but later chapters are lacking in determine what is next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0670879835?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=12sidedcom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0670879835\">Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool&#8217;s Guide to Surviving with Grace<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=12sidedcom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0670879835\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Gordon MacKenzie<br \/>\nSummary: Useful anecdotes about creativity and the creative process in a corporate setting.<\/p>\n<p>Why I liked it: Great stories and vignettes. Enjoyed the pyramids and plum tree organizational structure idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0066620996?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=12sidedcom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0066620996\">Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap&#8230; and Others Don&#8217;t<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=12sidedcom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0066620996\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Jim Collins<br \/>\nSummary: Offers a well-reasoned road map to excellence through examples of 11 companies that made the transition.<\/p>\n<p>Why I liked it: Preaches simplicity and discipline for a corporate vision (or hedgehog concept).<\/p>\n<p>Read on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three recent business books that I have read, enjoyed and recommend. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr Summary: Carr argues that computing, no longer personal, is going the way of a power utility. Why I liked it: The historical perspective matches the current&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,55,401,273,402],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-add-new-tag","tag-books","tag-reads","tag-recommend","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.effgen.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}