Speed Is Life: Street Smart Lessons from the Front Lines of Business

Author: Bob Davis
List Price: $24.95
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ISBN: 0385501366
Publisher: Currency (22 May, 2001)
Sales Rank: 98,807
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 2 out of 5
Egotistical drivel
Amazing! You read this book and it sounds like Bob Davis built Lycos all by himself. Forget any of the employees who helped build the site. Forget the employees who built the company's revenues.

This is a book about self-stroking.

I'll wait for Jerry Yang and Tim Koogle to write their book.

Rating: 5 out of 5
The fastest book ever!! ALL THUMBS UP!!!
Packed with great tips, real life tips, not fiction. I've never read a book as devotedly as I read this one. 'Speed is Life' or 'Life is Speed'. True!!! Bob is not only a great success, but is able to tell how he did it, which most people can't. Having a great experience and being able to tell & teach it to others so that they too can be great, is what I consider Bob's greatness. The great principles in this book could be applied to selling peanuts as well as running any technologically sophisticated company in the world, even managing a family, relationship, making good grades at school, or landing a good job. I have made this book my business bible & reference point. If you ever think of making anything come out great & successful in today's world, GRAB this book first & don't part with it. Thank you Bob!!!

Rating: 5 out of 5
Highly Recommended!
Bob Davis' book is vastly superior to many CEO memoirs in its clarity, simplicity and sophistication. While much of his "Internet-is-changing-everything" spiel will seem rightfully dated, his core point - that speed has become a critical organizational imperative - will hit home with anyone competing in business today. We from getAbstract recommend this book more for its advice about building cultures of speed than for Davis' dot-com tales.

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