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wslh · 2024-02-03 · Original thread
The author missed the Fred Wilson's MBA Mondays Archive [1] which personally was a great resource in the quest for my "business success" (whatever it means). There is a more organized and illustrated edition here [2]. BTW, I always return to some articles such as "Commission Plans" for Sales [3].

Regarding books: - Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove (Intel) [4]. It is always in my "pocket". It is real experience with pain points from a top CEO, not an academic exercise.

- Other books that are not focused on business but are more "epistemological". For example, "How Life Imitates Chess" by Garry Kasparov [5]. I don't know who created this title for the book though. Many autobiographies, in general, or good business biographies such as "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire" [6].

[1] https://avc.com/category/mba-mondays/

[2] https://mba-mondays-illustrated.com/

[3] https://avc.com/2010/08/commission-plans/

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Exploit-Challen...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/How-Life-Imitates-Chess-Boardroom/dp/...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Drive-Making-Microsoft-Empire/dp...

wslh · 2013-05-27 · Original thread
If you liked this article, you might like "How Life Imitates Chess" by Kasparov himself: http://www.amazon.com/How-Life-Imitates-Chess-ebook/dp/B0049...

The name of the book is not the more imaginative title but the content of the book is very interesting. He separates the romantic era of chess to the professional one and speaks about many different chess players with different skills. The concepts from the book can be also applied to science in general: there was a romantic science era where one person alone could learn and produce a lot of stuff. Now we are in a professional era where we need teams to discover something, just look at the number of people involved in writing new papers in science.

Personally, I have not lost the romantic view but in a specialized world it is difficult to produce a lot of impact alone.

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