Julie - I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of "The Art of Leverage" from Michael. It's a concise, well-written guide to using other people's resources to move ahead in your own business. It's helped me regroup and get my own business direction going and I recommend it highly.

My additional best reads of 2001 include "How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci" by Michael Gelb (an excellent book full of exercises on creativity, "confusion tolerance", etc.) and "Hired Gun" by Robert Workman (describes and teaches what it takes to become a top salesman and the challenges of remaining on top. I found it by chance in the Dallas airport and read it non-stop for the next three hours.)

Thanks for starting this interesting thread!
Bob