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Every book Nicholas Bloom recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Nicholas Bloom has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of August 12, 2020.
- Nicholas Bloom has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of August 12, 2020.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of August 12, 2020.
- The 3 books Nicholas Bloom has mentioned in the most episodes, as of August 12, 2020: The machine that changed the world, Built to Last and Good to Great.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Nicholas Bloom aired on August 12, 2020.
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Nicholas Bloom is an American economist, the William Eberle Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University, a courtesy professor at Stanford Business School and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a co-director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Discussing management, productivity, and scientific progress on the Conversations with Tyler podcast, Bloom mentioned several prominent books related to business history and popular management culture. He referenced James P. Womack's MIT book The Machine That Changed the World to illustrate how researchers documented lean manufacturing and its foundational impact on factory efficiency and modern consulting operations. When discussing popular business literature and its reliance on anecdotes, Bloom brought up Jim Collins's Good to Great and Collins and Jerry I. Porras's Built to Last. Additionally, Bloom mentioned that he had recently been reading J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, describing it as a fantastic read during the interview.
Books Nicholas Bloom recommended or discussed
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The machine that changed the world
Recommended“in fact there's a great mit book called the machine that changed the world that documents that now if you think of the way consultants are operating in the 90s 2000s it isn't obvious to many firms that lean was a far better way to run your factory”
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Built to Last
Discussed“that was just you know most of the books that i read that are popular good to great and built to last”
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Good to Great
Discussed“that was just you know most of the books that i read that are popular good to great and built to last”
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Hillbilly Elegy
Discussed“having said that i've recently been recently reading hillbilly elegy which is fantastic”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress | Conversations with Tyler | 2020-08-12 | 4 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“it's like the Anna Karenina thing that you know there's only one way to go right and there's a hundred ways to go wrong”