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10/28/2002

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Thumbs up to Business: The Ultimate Resource, an eight-pound 2200-page behemoth from Perseus Publishing. Henceforth to be known as BUSINESSTHEULTIMATERESOURCE (or BTUR for short,) and spoken of in a James Earl Jones baritone, this massive tome is certainly to be admired. It sets its sights quite high, and delivers a truckload of useful material on practical business matters. It strives to teach what Daniel Goleman calls "business intelligence," a form of innate business savvy. The book presents a staggering amount of essays and information on arguably everything that an informed businessperson needs to know. The publishers also maintain a website that complements the big book with periodic updates.

Here’s the rub: in order to review such a book, one needs to read the book, and such a task is a vast chore that would take months. And so I am going to make a few comments based on my reading of selected portions. The pluses are many. The essays by leading experts are quite smart. The list of best business books is thought-provoking if quirky—it leans heavily towards obscure and academic as opposed to popular or narrative titles. (But hey, everyone’s got best of business book lists these days: there’s a pithier one in a recent Forbes.com article.) Minor quibbles: the book spends 500 pages on a World Business Almanac, data which is inert compared to the other material in BTUR. And many of the resources cited skew towards BTUR’s UK roots.

Above all, the resource begs the question of whether one can produce a comprehensive encyclopedia for business, which is, at the heart, a dynamic and integrative process that requires more than mere knowledge for success, but wisdom. I have a personal bias, which is that all business models must be read on the meta level: with a cynical eye towards the profit motive (i.e. business model) of the person proposing the model. While I suspect noble publishing goals behind BTUR, the book’s earnest mission often holds it back from examining such a bias. In that light I suggest the following books on the business of business thinking: Beyond the Hype: Rediscovering the Essence of Management by Robert Eccles and Nitin Nohria, Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Managing in the Age of Instant Answers by Eileen Shapiro, and The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge.

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In the mid-1980s, business professionals from a variety of fields were asked what percentage of the knowledge necessary for their jobs they had stored in their heads. The average answer was 75%; today, it's a fraction of that. What's needed now is business intelligence, business literacy and business wisdom strengths often innate, but more often learned. In his introduction, Goleman says intelligence is distributed: a manager doesn' t need to know it all; she just needs to know how to learn it when she needs it. Like a business library between two covers, this exhaustive reference offers a no-frills, serious approach to achieving the trifecta: in seven sections, over 200 contributors from Warren Bennis to Peter Drucker offer insights, information, and practical guidance on every aspect of management. The Best Practice section includes some 160 mini-articles on competition, marketing, personnel and leadership;

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