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Every book Richard Koch recommended on podcasts
Richard Koch’s most recommended books
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
- Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Mind and Society: Theory of derivations by Vilfredo Pareto
- The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
Richard Koch appeared on podcasts such as The Tim Ferriss Show to discuss various literary works and share his own writing experiences. During his appearances, he recommended Richard Rumelt's book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, praising it as a very good, short book on business strategy. In addition to recommending works by other authors, Koch reflected on several books during his discussions. He described discovering Vilfredo Pareto's The Mind and Society: Theory of derivations while sitting in Oxford's Bodleian Libraries. He also recounted conversations with Mark Allen that led to his own book The 80/20 Principle, and explained how Nicholas Brealey came up with the clever title for his book Managing Without Management. Furthermore, Koch discussed reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers on a train journey, noting that it served as the genesis for his own book on success. He brought up Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile to highlight the concept that resilience is not the point and that individuals must embrace setbacks. Finally, Koch mentioned M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled to illustrate the principle that life is difficult, connecting these diverse texts back to his broader insights on strategy, management philosophy, and personal success principles across multiple podcast episodes.
Books recommended by Richard Koch
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Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard P.
Recommended“he'll come back to me but anyway you type it into Amazon if you want good strategy bad strategy that's actually a very good strategy book very not very nice short strategy book and there's my financial times guide to strategy we I give a small plug to out of print at the moment”
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Outliers
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is an examination of the external factors, cultural legacies, and massive amounts of practice that contribute to extraordinary success.
Discussed“so I took an old book which was Malcolm gladwell's outliers and you probably remember that in outliers the whole thesis is that success derives from Deep experience and long exposure to doing something in a very narrow field”
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Antifragile
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a groundbreaking exploration of systems that not only withstand shocks and disorder but actually thrive and grow stronger when exposed to volatility, stress, and uncertainty.
Discussed“you remember that Nicholas Nassim talb wrote a book called an fragile which I think is probably his best book and the thesis behind that as you know is that resilience is not the point you actually have to like setbacks”
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Managing Without Management
Discussed“and I'd written a book for him called managing without management which was a title which he suggested was very clever because it basically said managing in particular middle managing was a complete waste of time and so you could manage without it managing without management”
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The 80/20 Principle
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch is a prominent business and productivity guide that explores how a minority of efforts, inputs, or causes typically lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.
Discussed“and Mark Allen said to me you've written this thing called the A to Z of management which is basically a paragraph about various different concepts and it covered all the principles I could think of anyway I'd written half a page on the 8020 principal and I went to see Mark Allen one day in his offices in Covent”
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The Mind and Society: Theory of derivations
Discussed“and one day I decided that I wanted to read a book which had read about called the course of economic theory but it was in French written by our old friend vredo pero and it was published in lern in I think 1896 and 97”
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The Road Less Traveled
The Road Less Traveled by M.
Discussed“and you remember M Scott Peck wrote a book which starts life is difficult”
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Books Richard Koch wrote
- The 80/20 Principle
- 80/20 Beliefs
- Managing Without Management
- The 80/20 Daily
- The Financial Times Guide to Strategy
Appearances
Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“and there's my financial times guide to strategy we I give a small plug to out of print at the moment”
“one of the things that I say in the 80 20 book which you very kindly helped say is worth reading from people in the 80s 2020 principle is that why don't you spend more time on the things that you like”
“I'm now writing a book called 80 20 beliefs”
“and in the book 80 20 beliefs I will list about a dozen which I think Encompass the great majority of toxic beliefs”
“and this book is called 80 20 daily”
“anyway this book is going to come out next year as indeed 80 20 beliefs is going to come out”
“anyway this book is going to come out next year as indeed 80 20 beliefs is going to come out”
“and there's my financial times guide to strategy we don't give a small plug dude out of print at the moment but i'm producing the fifth fifth edition as we well not as we speak but but at the same time in the same period of time”