New York Journal of Books review of Eat People

Now, after more than a decade into the new millennium, it is time to start seeing, acting, and doing things from a 21st century perspective. The rate of progress over the last century was more than ever recorded in the history of the human race, and with digital technology, progress will not stop. If anything, change will come faster. In order to face these changes, the willingness to look to the future is necessary, and understanding the need to eat people is one required tool to make it possible.

a worthy read for those willing to move ahead in business and into the future.

Andy Kessler provides a baker’s dozen of rules that provide much food for thought in Eat People: Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs. But, foodie clichés aside, Kessler’s message is a wake-up call to those budding or wannabe entrepreneurs as much as it is to the slumbering moguls and managers.

If the concept of eating people is unsettling—and that’s just the title—the rest of the book is bound to rile complacency. Embrace the exceptional. Don’t be scared to “eat people” and eliminate jobs that are counterproductive. In the end, the new jobs created will require more skills. Those people who have been “eaten” may well come out ahead (if they choose) recycled and fit for some other purpose through retraining or by simply moving on and getting out of the way.

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[HR Dobbs]

Authors of books. Managers of money.

Are they nothing more than well paid sloggers?

[Moncler outlets]

If anything, change will come faster. In order to face these changes, the willingness to look to the future is necessary, and understanding the need to eat people is one required tool to make it possible.

[asbestos surveying]

Great review.I really like this book.

[remote control helicopter]

Swich to wordpress, make your blogger nicer. -My 2 cents

[monster beats studio]

Once upon a time Borders increased my standard of living; now it's Amazon, shipping books to my front door. No more wasting gas and time while a girl with purple hair and a nose ring swipes my card and bags my books. For others, convenience is loading their ebooks electronically.

In the big picture, the Borders BK is a beautiful thing. As opposed to General Motors and AIG, there will be no government rescue. The fertile minds and energies of the creative class are always busy making our lives better knowing they won't be protected like government's sacred cows.

Andy Kessler has met and knows many of the creators who have shaped our lives for the better. Their successes were not guaranteed by government contracts or sweetheart deals, Kessler explains. "The cool thing about all of these folks is that no one did them any favors," Kessler writes in his new book