DailyLit: Business Books

Good Experience Columns

by Mark Hurst

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Mark Hurst, the visionary who popularized "customer experience" in business, shares his thinking in these short essays. A commitment to good experience, Hurst argues, can improve any organization: by treating people better, companies perform better. Adapted from Hurst's past writings in his Good Experience newsletter, the essays take on topics as diverse as branding, community, customer research, Internet technology, information overload, and interviews with unusual thinkers.

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This work, Good Experience Columns, by Mark Hurst, is distributed under the following Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Generic.

Originally published in Good Experience between October 2002 and May 2008.

100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money

by Tom Peters

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The secrets to success in business and life are revealed in business icon and management guru Tom Peters' 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money. Delivered in Peters' singularly irreverent voice, these tidbits—which originally appeared on Peters's blog—will transform your way of looking at business while also giving you the swift verbal kick in the, er, behind that will motivate you to put these ideas into action. With a tip a day from Tom Peters delivered by DailyLit, you can take up Peters' call to "Wow...Now! (No bull. This is doable)." Doable indeed.

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Everyday Leadership

by Daniel Granholm Mulhern

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A down-to-earth, behind-the scenes account that goes beyond the usual self-improvement book to put a human face on the role of leadership in our lives.

Everyday Leadership offers strategies to improve leadership skills, achieve results, and gain greater satisfaction in these hectic times. It speaks to the everyday leader, whether that person is a principal, pastor, parent, or CEO.

Daniel Granholm Mulhern brings the art of management down to earth, presenting stories that illuminate some of the best ideas about real human leadership. He offers practical steps to achieve the goal of leading well in our lives through creating a vision, communicating that vision, and living it in simple yet powerful ways.

Praise for Everyday Leadership

"A book that truly speaks to everyone...Always practical, often inspiring, this is more a reference book than a self-improvement text, and a great read for any would-be leader."
—Roger Penske, owner of Penske Corporation and Penske Racing

"Sound, practical advice driven home with real-world examples....This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of others in their community, their business, or their family."
—Dennis W. Archer, former mayor of Detroit

"Everyday Leadership is a treasure chest of engaging stories, practical tips, and rich insights into how we each can make a difference in the world when we take responsibility for the personal power that we have....once you've taken Everyday Leadership to heart you'll leave this world a little bit better than you found it."
—Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge

"Everyday Leadership taught me as much about how to be a better person as it did about being a better leader. In fact, it revealed how much the two are the same. Excellent and helpful reading for anyone."
—Marianne Williamson, author of Return to Love and Everyday Grace

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Previously published by the University of Michigan Press.

Cover design by CERB Associates.

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Banker to the Poor

by Muhammad Yunus

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In 1983 Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. He aimed to help the poor by supporting the spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which they could lift themselves out of poverty forever. It was an idea born on a day in 1976 when he loaned $27 from his own pocket to forty-two people living in a tiny village. They were stool makers who only needed enough credit to purchase the raw materials for their trade. Yunus's loan helped them break the cycle of poverty and changed their lives forever. His solution to world poverty, founded on the belief that credit is a fundamental human right, is brilliantly simple: loan poor people money on terms that are suitable to them, teach them a few sound financial principles, and they will help themselves. Yunus's theories work. Grameen Bank has provided 3.8 billion dollars to 2.4 million families in rural Bangladesh. Today, more than 250 institutions in nearly 100 countries operate micro-credit programs based on the Grameen methodology, placing Grameen at the forefront of a burgeoning world movement toward eradicating poverty through micro-lending.

Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.

Praise for Banker to the Poor

"The Grameen Bank's record is illuminating and inspiring. More than 92 percent of its borrowers are women, commonly heads of families. They maintain an admirable rate of repayment—97 percent. This is an aid program that works."
—The New York Times

"Muhammad Yunus is a practical visionary who has improved the lives of millions of people in his native Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world. Banker to the Poor [is ] well-reasoned yet passionate."
—Los Angeles Times

"[Yunus's ] ideas have already had a great impact on the Third World, and . . . hearing his appeal for a 'poverty-free world' from the source itself can be as stirring as that all-American myth of bootstrap success."
—The Washington Post

About the Author

Muhammad Yunus was born in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of fourteen children, five of whom died in infancy, he was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at Vanderbilt University. In 1972 he became head of the economics department at Chittagong University. He is the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank.

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Previously published by PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group.

Cover design: Keenan.

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Art of Money Getting

by P.T. Barnum

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My Life and Work

by Henry Ford

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Born into a modest Detroit family, Henry Ford became a pioneer of American ingenuity and industry. In 1922, at the peak of his success in putting countless automobiles on the road, Ford put his own story onto paper. A practical statement of his personal history and shrewd business values, this book is the self-portrait of an American icon, one of the greatest success stories of United States history in his own words.

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Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

by John D. Rockefeller

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Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

by Walter Bagehot

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