“Seth says that you can get most of the value of an MBA education without forking over the big bucks by reading 30-40 books. I agree. In the context of learning useful knowledge that will make you a more productive and valuable employee, I maintain that you can educate yourself effectively for less than a quarter of the time and money spent in most current MBA programs… Here are the books (and blogs) that are a part of my ‘Personal MBA’ reading list. (Blogs and online resources are marked with a *.) Some are directly related to business, and some are included for a broader understanding of the world and how we live in it.”

“This Web Site and the book The Language of Small Business are the result of many years of difficult and thorough searching for answers to everyday problems of the small business person. Numerous books and articles exist concerning the theory of business and the practical application of business principles, but no other single glossary or dictionary exists that defines the terms as a ready reference for the small business person. To our knowledge, this Web Site is the first Web Site dedicated solely to the definitions of small business terms.”

“Here are the titles of the 5 most recent posts of 32 business-oriented blogs, as of April 12, 2005 from 2:00 AM to 4:00 AM. NOTE: This is NOT a list of ‘the best business blogs in the blogosphere, according to Steve Streight aka Vaspers the Grate.’ Some maybe aren’t so good at all. This is rather just a quickly selected list of business and marketing blogs I know of and slapped together for this experiment.”

“Keith Ferrazzi needs two PalmPilots to keep track of all his contacts, people like Bill Clinton and Michael Milken. But there’s far more to cracking the inner circle of the power elite than just taking names.”