Spring reading
Alan Webber is one of the keenest business minds I’ve ever encountered. When I was writing for Fast Company, he was my editor — and made me look better than I really was. Over the last decade-plus, he’s remained a good friend. I’m lucky.
And now so are you.
Because Alan has compiled a huge portion of his wisdom into a smart and accessible book called Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Your Self.
This is a different kind of business book. If you pick it up — and you should — don’t read it all the way through. Instead, select a rule that seems intriguing. Read the story that yielded the lesson and Alan’s expansion of it. Then put the book away. Read another rule tomorrow. It’s that kind of book — which is the 53rd reason you should check it out.
Other spring books I’m excited about:
- Matt May’s In Pursuit of Elegance
- Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor
- Ellen Langer’s Counterclockwise
- Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s Fingerprints of God