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My Personal MBA crazy project: Read 52 best business books in 52 weeks

"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only type of education that is. "- | Isaac Asimov

Are you familiar with the Personal MBA? It is a concept created by Josh Kaufman (based on an idea Seth Godin). Go beyond the assumption that business schools have no monopoly of knowledge and wisdom, he suggests that each of We spent a Personal MBA by reading a selection of the best business books out there, around 77 published in 2008 (93 with supplements) in 12 different categories:

Start 1.Quick
2.Productivity and efficiency
3.Psychology and communication
4.Design and production
5.Marketing, sales and trading
6.Entrepreneurship
7.Management and leadership
8.Strategy and innovation
9.Finances and analysis
10.Personal Finance
11.Supplement: Business History
12.Supplement Reference: Business

My crazy project involving the MBA staff consists of 52 books in this list. I approach this project seriously, and I am preparing for it the same way I train for a marathon: I know that the challenge will be long and difficult, especially after the initial momentum – and the enthusiasm of the start – fade.

How will I undertake this task? Here are the rules of the challenge:

1) Choose 52 pounds of actual list of MBA staff.

2) Play once a week for 52 weeks. Write a relevant summary, that includes an overall summary and chapter by chapter if the book lends itself to that.

3) Sacrifice that what is useless. I do not intend to abandon my other business – my business, improvisational theater, sports, my two entrepreneur clubs, my other blogs, my hobbies, my personal life. I will try to organize myself better and get rid of what is just pointless – in from surfing the Web, video games, youtube, everything to lose valuable time in general. I can not mute the TV, since I hardly watch it anyway.

4) Take action. To think without doing something is just as stupid as to do something without thinking. Thought is based both on our experience – in the field – and our knowledge – acquired from books, the school, in conversation with others.

I do not necessarily read the books in that order, but I'll try to read everything from a class at a time so it is more easy to compare and connect my new awareness. This will be a difficult challenge, but very interesting!

About the Author

Olivier Roland is a French Entrepreneur and the Blogger of Books that can change your life.

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