On Your Marks with Prof Jonathan Marks
I am a business school professor based in South Africa and working, teaching and researching in the field of high growth entrepreneurship. My current podcast season is a weekly review of non-fiction books - I have set the challenge of 52 books in 52 weeks. I share the review by way of a short podcast (approx 15 mins) and an infographic. These are free resources - just subscribe at www.jonathanmarks.co.za/books to get these sent to your email inbox each Tuesday morning.
On Your Marks with Prof Jonathan Marks
Book Review The Practice by Seth Godin
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Season 1
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Episode 27
A disappointing read. The book is a clustering of random stories, observations and vignettes loosely corralled together. There is no coherence to the narrative, and while some of the stories are amusing, this is at best a book to pick up now and again when you might be desperate for inspiration. The idea of developing a ‘practice’ and being a ‘professional’ rather than waiting for inspiration to bite is one I agree with – I just don’t think you need 256 pages with which to say it. I would give this book a hard pass.
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