Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur
by Richard Branson
Recommended by Derek Sivers
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Reading Business Stripped Bare feels like sitting through an extended founder interview: brisk, anecdote-driven chapters about risky deals, publicity stunts, and brand fights. Its useful part is the inside-the-room color—specific examples of how decisions were framed and sold inside a growing company—good for idea sparking and managerial inspiration. Its limitation is repetition and selective memory: the book favors hero narratives and glosses over structural detail, so readers wanting step-by-step how-tos or rigorous case studies will likely be frustrated.
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The biggest business publication of 2009 — Branson's business secrets now in paperback.In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson shares the inside track on his life in business and reveals the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. Discover why Virgin tried to take on one of the world's biggest superbrands, how V...
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Derek Sivers
Author; founder of CD Baby
“A real and specific description of the inner workings of the Virgin companies. Every entrepreneur, investor, and manager should appreciate this detailed account of practices, philosophies and stories from the core.”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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