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Designing an MBA

Business thinking for designers and makers.

Category: book club

  • The best business(ish) books for artists and makers I read in 2021

    The best business(ish) books for artists and makers I read in 2021

    I read over 50 books in 2021 (you can see them all on my other blog) but very few of them would be categorized as business books. This is a little surprising to me (as it probably is to many long-time readers) but the truth is, I’m not finding much new, interesting, or inspiring in…

  • The 10 best business books I read (and listened to) in 2019 for artists and makers

    When I first launched Designing an MBA, one of my favorite things to do was highlight the many, many business books I was reading. But over the last few years, as I started spending increasingly more time on my phone, I noticed my reading time had gotten progressively less. So in 2019, I set out…

  • what are you the best in the world at?

    I’ve bee meaning to write about some of the concepts from Good to Great for the last week or so (since it is the book club book this month) but the scope of the book is so vast that I was having a hard time finding an entry point.  But last night I was reading…

  • do you want to build a great company?

    So now that we’re officially in July, I thought I should make the recommended reading schedule available for Good to Great.  You can download the schedule here. I’m so excited to tackle Good to Great this month because I think there’ so much that applies whether you’re a one-person business or a multi-billion dollar corporation….

  • monday morning announcements: workshops, book club, and a reminder to breathe

    Hello everyone – I thought I’d kick the week off with a few announcements and reminders: CMBA Workshops There is still time to register for all three of the upcoming online workshops that I’m presenting.  (But time is running out, since the Business 101 workshop is tonight!)  The rest of my summer is starting to…