Ken McCarthy has released his recommended book list for 2009. [Books for 2009]


Ken McCarthy has released his recommended book list for 2009.

Ken’s latest email is reprinted here:

2008 was one of the rockiest years in the history of business.

If you’re still standing, pat yourself on the back. But what about 2009?

Some predict the ride will be even more bumpy.

How do you prepare?

I was listening to a talk recently by my Internet “pioneer days” colleague Marc Andreessen.

He pointed out that ALL of the successul companies he started were started at the WRONG time.

Netscape was started in the middle of a Silicon Valley slump…

OpsWare was started right at the top of the Dot Com craze…

From a timing point of view, both should have failed.

They didn’t.

Netscape literally launched the web revolution… Marc sold OpsWare to HP eight years later for $1.6 billion – that’s billion with a “B” – when he was 36 years old…

What’s Marc’s secret?

Actually, he’s got a lot of them, but one of them is this:

He reads. I can’t tell you what advantage it is to an entrepreneur to be a reader.

Conferences and networking with peers is great…but reading gives you access to the “mother lode” of business advice and insight – and you can do it for pennies. Some people fall out of the habit of reading when they leave school…

Some never got into it…

Others leave it to the “gurus” to tell them what’s important…

Bad idea.

Here’s the deal:

Just 20 minutes of reading well chosen books per day adds up to 121 hours of reading per a year.

That’s three solid weeks each year with the best minds in business – for pennies. Do this and I guarantee it will change your life for the better. Here’s my list of recommended books for 2009:

http://www.kenscopyclinic.com/booklist_2009.html

Best wishes to you and all your loved ones for a great 2009!

Ken

P.S. TOMORROW is the deadline for the super early bird tuition special for System Seminar 2009.

http://www.TheSystemSeminar.com

Ken McCarthy
The System Seminar

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