The Entrepreneurship of Pirating
I had never considered the business aspects of pirating until I read Katherine Howe's newest book, A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. Every ship's captai...
25 Nov 202356min
The Phoenix Project
I'd recommend The Phoenix Project if I could only recommend one book to a CEO, CFO, or COO about the essentials or the heart of IT in a heartbeat. The Phoenix Project is the IT version of The Goal, a...
18 Nov 202357min
Quick Value
I cannot begin to count the number of times I've heard the following question or something similar, "Mark, I've heard my industry EBITDA multiple is 5x. What do you think?" As much as I want to screa...
4 Nov 202358min
Throughput Accounting and Economics
As much as I enjoy reading the Goldratt books and his theory of constraints (TOC), I never considered his early book, The Race, a solid and readable primer on throughput for financial minds. Several ...
28 Okt 20231h
The Psychology of Pricing
If you have read any books on pricing, the title that stands above the rest is Hermann Simon's Confessions of The Pricing Man. However, suppose you are looking for a book that includes nearly every p...
21 Okt 202352min
100 Baggers
One of my favorite books in the value investing niche is 100 Baggers by Chris Mayer, a title that is also worth reading for CEOs, CFOs, and all other business managers. During this conversation, Chri...
14 Okt 202346min
The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
When I finished Nick Gray's The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, I immediately thought that this was the perfect follow-up book to start applying all of the teachings of Dale Carnegie in his classic, How to Win...
7 Okt 202338min
The Rise and Fall of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty
As a child growing up in rural Missouri who listened to countless baseball games on the radio of my favorite baseball team, I heard the names Budweiser and Busch repeatedly over the course of many yea...
30 Sep 202356min
