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By: The Blue Ocean Value Curve | Elastic Life

The Blue Ocean Value Curve | Elastic Life — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:47:57 +0000

[...] * I have recently noticed that this post has come to rank quite highly in Google and thus felt I needed to add some clarification, given the fact that a lot of readers do not seem to have understood the underlying sarcasm and the message it is trying to convey. This blog is aimed towards entrepreneurs and as such views this book as a potential time waster – even though larger organizations might benefit from its (however inconcise) message. As it is often mentioned in entrepreneurial circles, I thought I’d give it a mention. For a more relevant list of reading material, please look at my list of Recommended Business Books. [...]

By: A Thousand Splendid Reasons For Audiobooks | The Elastic Life

A Thousand Splendid Reasons For Audiobooks | The Elastic Life — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:49:25 +0000

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www.tagsto.com/trackback/ — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:03:21 +0000

Hubs of Recommended Business Books…

hubs about Business Books to The ideas Taleb describes are interesting and useful, but DO NOT get the audio book as, adding to the writer’s very noticeable self-confidence, the narrator makes the whole thing sound terribly big-headed. I later heard T…

By: Tadej Gregorcic

Tadej Gregorcic — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:21:41 +0000

No, The Black Swan is a good audio book –
what I was trying to say is that you’re going to end up not liking
Taleb after having listened to David Chandler’s narration.

I don’t know if this is a good example, but try this (sample):
http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_RECO_001388&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

I listened to all of these as audio and I agree – Blink was really great.

I have some other recommendations, e.g. Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae, although his choice to narrate it himself could be put up for debate .

By: ruph

ruph — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:36:57 +0000

Blink is fantastic audio book! I’ve listen to it and it’s really really great.

I would ask you about Black Swan.. I don’t feel like reading it.. is it that terrible on audio?