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    <body><![CDATA[No, this isn't about the video game. The full title on this one is The Halo Effect ...and the Eight Other Business Delusions that Deceive Managers. In it, author Phil Rosenzweig sets out to take the business press and best sellers to task for a list of flaws in their thinking and chest thumping. Bas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46162238">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nifty debunking of all those fatuous books sitting in the 'management' shelves in the 'business' sections of your local chain bookstore.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When judging management or evaluating companies our views are all influenced by other data points such as stock performance. This a good reminder of those biases. The second half of the book is much better than the beginning, which was a bit redundant for me. <br/><br/>It's good to be reminded tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29414290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that blows your mind away. Information presented in an unusual way.<br/>The content is interesting and unusual for business books. Must be read for anyone that has any say in business strategies. Specially helps to prevent people from becoming Dilbert style PHBs :) By providing the main idea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24512657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a one trick pony, but it's a decent trick: calling out all the business pseudo-science for confusing dependent variables for independent variables.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you read Good to Great, Built to Last, and Searching for Excellence with a bit of a jaundiced eye, this book is for you. It convincingly rips apart each book, sparing little mercy. The book is quite short at about 175 pages, and makes for a quick read. My feeling was that it felt like an extended...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12055939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taking a new twist on the old computer lingo GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out), the author shows you why nearly every study of business and business strategy is fundamentally flawed before it ever even get's published.  This helped me to articulate why I've always thought most business books are rubbish...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19378535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quick and interesting look at hindsight bias and how it can taint our views on the past and impact our thoughts on causation versus correlation.  Overwhelming theme is when it comes to research garbage in equals garbage out.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you've read the black swan and enjoyed it, this is the perfect follow up book to read. essential for anyone starting their own companies. or perhaps not, sometimes too much knowledge is a dangerous thing.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you read business books, you should read this business book. You'll read all others with a more skeptical (and intelligent) eye. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It helped me out to understand all the other business book I had read before. It's a &quot;must-read&quot; for sure!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another superficial book about bad reasoning practices]]></body>
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