Episode 112 - Business Non-Fiction

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re discussing Business Non-Fiction! We talk about personality quizzes, questioning capitalism, fighting against productivity/the productivity trap, the rigourousness of professional degrees, (somehow on-topic) tangents, and how books can manage to disappoint us in new and bizarre ways. It’s got both silliness and existential dread in one episode!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read This Month

• Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
• Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
• Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
• No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
• Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondō and Scott Sonenshein
• Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life by Shelley Paxton
• Think. Do. Say.: How to Seize Attention and Build Trust in a Busy, Busy World by Ron Tite
• The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shteir
• Different . . . Not Less: Inspiring Stories of Achievement and Successful Employment from Adults with Autism, Asperger's, and ADHD by Temple Grandin
• The Art of Doing Business Across Cultures: 10 Countries, 50 Mistakes, and 5 Steps to Cultural Competence by Craig Storti
• 100 Side Hustles: Ideas for Making Extra Money by Chris Guillebeau

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Wikipedia)
• What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles
• Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast
• The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon Lechter
• • Episode 015 - Self Help
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
• The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
• Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
• Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
• The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
• • The Poison Squads: The Stupid, Risky First Food Safety Tests (SciShow)
• Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America by Michael Ruhlman
• Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
• The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It's Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
• More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) by Elaine Welteroth
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau

Links, Articles, and Things

• Ask a Manager
• Quantified self (Wikipedia)
• Herpetology (Wikipedia)
• • “the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras)”

15 Business Non-Fiction Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
• Eat a Peach by David Chang
• Fight or Submit: Standing Tall in Two Worlds by Ronald Derrickson
• Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu
• The Token: Common Sense Ideas for Increasing Diversity in Your Organization by Crystal Byrd Farmer
• It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage by Arlan Hamilton
• Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District by Hannibal B. Johnson
• Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation A Reality by Robert Joseph
• The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters by Wes Moore
• Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
• Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier by Maya Rao
• How to be a Bawse by Lilly Singh
• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo

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Join us again on Tuesday, November 17th we’ll be doing Readers’ Advisory and trying to come up with holiday gifts for each other!

Then on Tuesday, December 1st we’ll be discussing the genre that you chose for us: New Weird Fiction!