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Perspectives on Strategy
Carl Stern and George Stalk (inferred)
“it's a very very good primer; it's just a very very good thing and it's very easy to read”
“you can recommend a book called Perspectives on Strategy edited by Carl Stern and George Stalk”— Richard Koch
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
“that's actually a very good strategy book, very nice short strategy book”
“Good Strategy Bad Strategy, that's actually a very good strategy book, very nice short strategy book”— Richard Koch
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
“I recommended it in 2010 in the Four-Hour Body and I did not get paid to do so”— Tim Ferriss
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The 80/20 Principle
Richard Koch
“in 1997 the 80 20 principle the book reinterpreted the Pareto rule extending the observation that most results come from a small minority of causes”— Tim Ferriss
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Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It
Richard Koch
“his new book published on August 13 2020 is Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It”— Tim Ferriss
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The Star Principle
Richard Koch
“you wrote an entire book on this, the Star Principle 2008, work and investing in star businesses, that was the focus”— Tim Ferriss
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Financial Times Guide to Strategy
Richard Koch
“and there's my Financial Times Guide to Strategy, give a small plug, out of print at the moment but I'm producing the fifth edition”— Richard Koch
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The A-Z of Management
Richard Koch
“I wrote something called the A to Z of Management which is basically a paragraph about various different concepts and it covered all the principles”— Richard Koch
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Managing Without Management
Richard Koch
“I'd written a book for him called Managing Without Management which was a title which he suggested”— Richard Koch
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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Cours d'economie politique
Vilfredo Pareto
“I wanted to read a book which I had read about called the course of economic theory, but it was in French, written by our old friend Vilfredo Pareto”— Richard Koch
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Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
“I took an old book which was Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the whole thesis is success derives from deep experience and long exposure”— Richard Koch
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Nassim Taleb wrote a book called Antifragile which I think is probably his best book, the thesis is resilience is not the point”— Richard Koch
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