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How do you feel that putting a link to the Freakanomics article doesn't provide perspective on this statement: "Much of the entrepreneur blogosphere would go u
by larrys 15y ago
How do you feel that putting a link to the Freakanomics article doesn't provide perspective on this statement:
"Much of the entrepreneur blogosphere would go up in a puff of smoke if people would simply read the business books that stand the test of time."
I think it does and is appropriate. I've been around long enough to have read "In search of Excellence" which Levitt refers to this way "These business books are mostly backward-looking".
What the books that are backward looking don't reveal is the companies that follow the same practices that have failed. There is never any data on that.
- _pius 15y agoHow do you feel that putting a link to the Freakanomics article doesn't provide perspective on this statement: "Much of the entrepreneur blogosphere would go up in a puff of smoke if people would simply read the business books that stand the test of time." I think it does and is appropriate. I don't think it does. The problem of business books being mostly backward-looking is interesting, but completely orthogonal to the question of whether many lessons written about in blog posts have already been covered by classic business books.