Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2015-05-07
Books mentioned on Could the Next Brooklyn Be … Las Vegas?! | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 205
Stephen Dubner discussed Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser. Tony Hsieh discussed How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins. Also mentioned: Ed Defender by Ed Defender and others, Good to Great by Jim Collins, and Tribal Leadership by John King and Halee Fischer-Wright Dave Logan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Triumph of the City
Triumph of the City by Edward L.
Discussed“one of his main Inspirations was a Harvard Economist named ed Glaser who four years ago published a Manifesto called Triumph of the city how our greatest invention makes us richer smarter Greener healthier and happier”
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Ed Defender
Discussed“The work that we we first found that really I think sowed the seeds for what would become the downtown project was Ed Glazer's book I was very flattered when Tony reached out to me He read my book and seems to have been excited by it”
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How the Mighty Fall
How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins is a well-known business and leadership book examining why once-successful companies experience severe declines and how some organizations avoid that fate.
Discussed“well so there's a follow-up book that Jim Collins came up with which was how the Mighty Fall or fail”
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Good to Great
Good to Great by Jim Collins is a prominent business and management book that investigates what makes companies transition from being merely good to achieving sustained greatness.
Discussed“but if you read books like good to great or tribal leadership there's a clear at least correlation right if not cause between companies that do well in the long term financially Although if you look at the good to Great companies if you looked at those lately”
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Tribal Leadership
Discussed“but if you read books like good to great or tribal leadership there's a clear at least correlation right if not cause between companies that do well in the long term financially”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Delivering Happiness
“both of us were really taken with shea himself and a book he published called delivering happiness”
Passing How the World Remade Hollywood
“One of his main Inspirations was a Harvard Economist named ed Glaser who four years ago published a Manifesto called Triumph of the city how our greatest invention makes us richer smarter Greener healthier and happier”