Re:The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth
by _pius on Saturday April 28, 2012 @07:16PM
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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 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.
"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.