Management Ebooks: "Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Action"

Apple's former chief evangelist leads businessfolk down the path to enchantment.

The entrepreneur's entrepreneur is back with his 10th book, this time tackling the tricky art of influence and persuasion. Kawasaki (Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging and Outmarketing Your Competition, 2011, etc.) transforms the otherwise exhausted and overwrought tropes of how to win friends and influence people with a complete makeover here, whether he's talking about wardrobe choice or tips for effective swearing.

The author, a modern-day Dale Carnegie, offers explanations on how to wield the most influence in the digital age: Push Technologies like presentations, e-mails and Twitter are discussed as active means of enchanting others, while Pull Technologies like Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn passively draw them in. The author's suggestions for achieving likeability and trustworthiness, as well as overcoming resistance, are thoroughly explained and can easily translate from the workplace to the real world.

Kawasaki makes good use of subheads and bullet points, rendering information in a searchable format. He ends each chapter with an anecdote that illuminates the effectiveness of his techniques—while it's not original, it's effective. The author's trademark light and airy style is on display, but it's his humor and empathy that makes the heavy use of BusinessSpeak and buzzwords more easily palatable.

Informative, concise guide from one of America's most influential and, yes, enchanting entrepreneurs.

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Management Ebooks: Guy Kawasaki "Rules For Revolutionaries"

If music (Big Yellow Taxi) and television (That '70s Show) can look to the 1970s as a source of current inspiration, why not business books? That's the implicit argument of Forbes columnist Kawasaki's (How to Drive Your Competition Crazy) new book, which tries to capture the attitude of Apple Computer some two decades ago, when its goal was to make "insanely great products." This tone doesn't occur by accident.

Kawasaki was director of product development at Apple. To his credit, Kawasaki, who now runs garage.com, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, succeeds in being inspirational as he lays out his three steps to success: "Create Like a God," "Command Like a King" and "Work Like a Slave." Each section is filled with dozens of ideas about how to approach a market differently, and he gives pithy examples of how firms ranging from bicycle companies to Internet enterprises applied one of the three steps on their way to market. But while long on inspiration, Kawasaki is short on "how to."

He has sprinkled the book with "exercises," but they are primarily there for comic relief, rather than instruction (e.g., "The next time a telemarketer calls you at home, ask for his phone number and tell him you will call him back that night"). Ultimately, however, these shortfalls probably don't matter. Kawasaki gives entrepreneurs and team leaders battling entrenched corporate bureaucracies more reason to keep up the fight. It is very hard not to like a book whose major theme is "don't let Bozosity grind you down."

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Management Ebooks: Guy Kawasaki "How To Drive Your Competition Crazy"

Si le ha intrigado el título de esta obra, probablemente es usted del tipo de lector de libros de empresa harto ya de guías afables para directivos, que le aconsejan comportamientos suaves y amables en el trato con los competidores, los clientes y los empleados. Usted está preparado para actuar sin miramientos, y lo único que necesita tener en sus manos es la primera guía realmente práctica sobre lo que puede hacer y cómo para sacar de sus casillas a sus contricantes.

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Management Ebooks: Guy Kawasaki "The Art Of Start"

Con más de 150.000 ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo, ‘El arte de empezar, de Guy Kawasaki, nos enseña los pasos esenciales que debemos dar para lanzar al mercado buenos productos, servicios y compañías, sean del tipo que sean. Una guía para, por qué no, cambiar el mundo.

El nombre de Guy Kawasaki es sinónimo de emprendedor de éxito. Guy Kawasaki es, a día de hoy, uno de los expertos en desarrollo empresarial más reconocidos del mundo. Guy fue el “evangelista” por excelencia de los años 90 y el encargado del desarrollo de marketing de Macintosh en 1984. Trasladó el concepto de “evangelizar” a los negocios tecnológicos con la idea de atraer y fidelizar a usuarios que rindieran culto a la marca Apple. En unos años más que difíciles para la empresa fundada por Steve Jobs, el trabajo de Guy fue tremendamente valioso e internacionalmente reconocido. En la actualidad, dirige una de las empresas de capital riesgo más importantes de Estados Unidos, Garage Technology Ventures.

“Una guía muy útil para los futuros creadores de empresas, con o sin ánimo de lucro. Todo aquel que intente cambiar el mundo debería leer El Arte de Empezar. Me hubiera encantado que este libro existiese cuando yo fundé Teach for America”.- Wendy Kopp, Presidente y Fundadora de la organización educativa, Teach For America

“Para ser un empresario de éxito se necesitan tres cosas: un garaje, una idea y este libro”. - Michael Moritz, Socio, Sequoia Capitals

“Guy lo ha conseguido de nuevo, evangelizar sobre algo significativo y necesario. Esta vez, nos ofrece una visión tan completa del mundo de los negocios que es profunda en su simplicidad: hay que concentrarse en lo que es importante y olvidarse de lo superficial”.- Pierre Omidyar, Fundador de eBay, y Co-fundador de Omidyar Network.

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