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The RIBS* List
* Really Important Books and Stuff
(like audio and video tapes, etc.)

[ The Cornerstone Ideas ] [ To Get You Started ] [ Essential RIBS ] [ Rev-up Your Business ] [ Get Your Adrenalin Pumping ] [ Think Forward ] [ Kick-start Your Thinking ] [ To Help You Get Unstuck ]

The Cornerstone Ideas

• Great Game of Business, The
  by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
   
• Grow or Die: The Unifying Principle of Transformation
  by George T. Lock Land
   
• Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox: How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean
  by David Gelernter
   
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
  by R. Buckminster Fuller
       Check out our Readers' Club discussion.
   

To get you started

• Making a Living While Making a Difference: The Expanded Guide to Creating Careers With a Conscience
  by Melissa Everett
   
• Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood
  by Marsha Sinetar
   
• Lemming Conspiracy, The: How to Redirect Your Life from Stress to Balance
  by Bob McDonald and Don Hutcheson
   
• Soloing: Realizing Your Life's Ambition
  by Harriet Rubin
   
• Making a Living without a Job
  by Barbara J. Winter
   

Essential RIBS

• Die Broke: A Radical Four-part Financial Plan
  by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine
   
• Popcorn Report, The
  by Faith Popcorn
   
• Your Money or Your Life
  by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin
   

Rev-up Your Business

• 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk!
  by Al Ries and Jack Root
   
• 48 Laws of Power
  by Robert Greene with Joost Elffers
   
• Clicking: 17 Trends that drive your business -- and your life
  by Faith Popcorn and Lys Marigold
   
• Inc. Yourself: How to Profit by Setting Up Your Own Corporation
  by Judith H. McQuown
   
• Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster
  by Bill Jensen
   

Get Your Adrenalin Pumping

• The Brand You 50: Or, Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an 'Employee' into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!
  by Tom Peters
   
• The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!
  by Tom Peters
   
• The Professional Service Firm 50: Or, Fifty Ways to Transform Your 'Department' into a Professional Service Firm Whose Trademarks Are Passion and innovation!
  by Tom Peters
   

Think Forward

• Age of Access, The
  by Jeremy Rifkin
   
• Age of Paradox, The
  by Charles Handy
   
• Age of Unreason, The
  by Charles Handy
   
• Contracts for the Film and Television Industry, 2nd Expanded Edition
  by Mark Litwak
   
• Creating Value in the Network Economy
  by Don Tapscott
   
• Dealmaking in the Film and Television Industry: From Negotiations to Final Contracts
  by Mark Litwak
   
• Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs
  by Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, and Alex Lowy
   
• Dream Society, The
  by Rolf Jensen
   
• Jobshift: How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs
  by William Bridges
   
• No More Teams!: Mastering the Dynamics of Creative Collaboration
  by Michael Schrage
   
• Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate
  by Michael Schrage
   

Kick-start Your Thinking

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
  by Stanley Kubrick, an MGM film
   
• Tron
  by Steven Lisberger, an MGM film
   
• Tucker -- The Man and His Dream
  by Francis Ford Coppola
   

To Help You Get Unstuck

• The Superman Complex: Achieving the Balance That leads to True Success
  by Max Carey
   
• The Left-Hander Syndrome: The Causes and Consequences of Left-Handedness
  by Stanley Coren
   
• Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives
  by Frank J. Sulloway
   

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