This is sort of strange (but great) because at least once at every single Berkshire Hathaway meeting someone asks Buffett and Munger what they're favorite books are, and I have never heard them mention this one. There is 20 years of in in-depth content about Buffett in books, articles, meetings, and interviews. "What's your fav book" must be one of the top 5 questions he gets and I've never heard about this book. This is great.
Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
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Re: Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
#12Not available on Amazon currently, but available on Abebooks: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=john+brooks... Also on Google Books for $9.99: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZMPTAwAAQBAJ
I followed your link to AbeBooks, and in the minute it took me to decide which copy to buy, it was bought by someone else.
First time that happens to me. I often keep books for months in my shopping cart.
EDIT: Ha, never mind, every copy I've tried (4 of them) has been sold, but it only shows once you add them to your shopping cart.
Re: Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
#13Will check out BA when I get a chance. But can't imagine it will displace what remains my favourite "business" book of all time, the Id Software creation yarn: Masters of Doom by David Kushner.
It was recently suggested to me that every entrepreneur should read Sir Richard Branson's autobiography. I was dismissive having read the LRB review of Bower's biography of "the stuntman": http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/david-runciman/the-stuntman.
Is "Losing My Virginity" worth a peruse? Or should we just wait for Gates himself to deliver his memoirs?
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#14It's available since July 8th 2014 in Amazon... I see what you did there with your marketing ingeniousness, Mr. WSJ || Bill Gates. The problem is that I'm easy, all too easy, and I fall for these ploys. And now I'm biting myself to buy the book :) Well done. edit: what's available is a Kindle edition, that I suppose is from the same book http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...
And the paperback just happens to be coming out in September but can be pre-ordered now.
Kind of annoying to me personally, since I take the advice a little less seriously now.
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#15I'd be more interested in Steve Jobs' favorite business books. I know he was a huge fan of the Innovator's Dilemma, probably because he already naturally understood most of it from experience before having to read it, and he was probably fan of other similar books too, and I'd like to know which books those were.
I don't think Bill Gates ever understood a book like Innovator's Dilemma. Not really.
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#16What is the deal with the embedded ticker symbols with popup stock info? I suppose they're trying to drive traffic to some of their other articles, but I can't help seeing those things as irrelevant distractions to an otherwise interesting article.
Re: Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
#17This is sort of strange (but great) because at least once at every single Berkshire Hathaway meeting someone asks Buffett and Munger what they're favorite books are, and I have never heard them mention this one. There is 20 years of in in-depth content about Buffett in books, articles, meetings, and interviews. "What's your fav book" must be one of the top 5 questions he gets and I've never heard about this book. Thi…
Buffett is an investor though right? Whereas Gates built a company. The two closely related but not the same? So it doesn't surprise me they turn to different books.
Investors usually recommend books on security analysis, which would hardly have been useful for Gates in the 90's.
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#18I'd be more interested in Steve Jobs' favorite business books. I know he was a huge fan of the Innovator's Dilemma, probably because he already naturally understood most of it from experience before having to read it, and he was probably fan of other similar books too, and I'd like to know which books those were. I don't think Bill Gates ever understood a book like Innovator's Dilemma. Not really.
Check out the Innovator's Solution, the follow up.
It explains why most of the profit (ability to charge your costs plus a premium) was dominated in the 90's by OS's, and not by the now notorious disk-drive companies.
Gates probably understood this (how to position yourself not be disrupted) and it's why we're all reading his favorite book - which is great by the way.
Re: Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
#19I'd be more interested in Steve Jobs' favorite business books. I know he was a huge fan of the Innovator's Dilemma, probably because he already naturally understood most of it from experience before having to read it, and he was probably fan of other similar books too, and I'd like to know which books those were. I don't think Bill Gates ever understood a book like Innovator's Dilemma. Not really.
What makes you think he didn't understand the Innovator's Dilemma?
When he was CEO some of the more innovative products not part of their core business included smart watches, internet TV (MSN TV), the XBox, and many others. Granted some were way ahead of their time, and I would agree to saying Ballmer didn't understand, but I wouldn't say Gates didn't.
Re: Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book
#20And for those who missed it, there is a free chapter here: http://www.gatesnotes.com/media/features/books/Bill_Gates_Jo...