Each of these is not difficult to acquire, yet almost no entrepreneur has all three. As I go through them, give yourself a mark out of ten for each area. 1. SPECIALIZED INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE. You can ...

In “All the Knowledge in the World,” Simon Garfield recounts the history of the encyclopedia — a tale of ambitious effort, numerous errors and lots of paper.

In “All the Knowledge in the World,” he has produced a lively threnody to the encyclopedic impulse, or the powerful desire to grasp and encapsulate everything that is known within a single ...