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Second Acts and our Paperback
Posted Aug. 24, 2011 10:41 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

With weary conviction, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote near the end of his life that "There are no second acts in American lives." He gets picked on a lot for that, mostly because it's an easy and somewhat eloquent introduction to the many stories that get written about second acts in American life. He also wrote that "All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath." If that one is true, our resident wordsmith and editor-extraordinaire, Sally Haldorson, has been holding her breath for quite a while now, making her way through the upcoming paperback edition of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

It's the book's second act, and it has been reworked significantly with some additions we think you'll love. We're looking forward to the book's release later this year, but I'm sure we'll have to revisit it yet again for a third act someday, because business book publishing didn't stop after our book was finished and neither did the authors of the books that were chosen. And the authors aren't making future editions easier for us, either. They continue churning out wonderful new acts that add to the story and trajectory of their work.

Here is a list of the books coming out just this calender year from authors included in The 100 Best, along with the books that got them there:

• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton & Company (author of Moneyball)

• That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L Friedman & Michael Mandelbaum, Farrar Straus Giroux (Friedman is the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree)

• 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems by Stephen R. Covey, Free Press (author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

• Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past by Geoffrey A Moore, HarperBusiness (author of Crossing the Chasm)

• Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier by B. Joseph Pine II & Kim C. Korn, Berrett-Koehler (Pine is the coauthor of The Experience Economy)

• Reach for the Skies: Ballooning, Birdmen, and Blasting Into Space by Richard Branson, Current (author of Losing My Virginity)

• Standout: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution by Marcus Buckingham, Thomas Nelson (coauthor of First, Break All the Rules)

• The MacKay MBA of Selling in the Real World by Harvey MacKay, Portfolio (author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive)

• Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen & Clayton M Christensen, Harvard Business Review Press (Christensen is the author of The Innovator's Dilemma)

• Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work by Michael Michalko, New World Library (author of Thinkertoys)

And these are not just the second acts for most of these authors—this will be Michael Lewis's fourteenth book. With all of the great new authors entering the game today that we need to discover and read, this level of continued productivity and excellence seems almost unfair to our collective free time.

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Jeff Hayzlett's Business Library
Posted April 27, 2010 8:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

If you know who Jeff Hayzlett is, it is probably from his appearances on television or his Twitter footprint. But the chief marketing officer of Kodak is now venturing into the wonderful world of analog with his new book, The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing?, being released by Business Plus in May. And he has done something in that book that I wish more authors would do. He has included an appendix in which he lists his "Business Library 'Must' List." It gives you an idea of what has influenced him most over the years (and, just maybe, an idea of what to expect from his book). It includes:

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

• Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

• How to Win Friend and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R Covey

• The Practice of Management by Peter F. Drucker

• The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It by Michael Gerber

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M Goldratt & Jeff Cox

• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca with William Novak

• What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis

• Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone. by Mitch Joel

• Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids about Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T Kiyosaki with Sharon L Lechter

• Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business by Jay Conrad Levinson

• Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition by Harvey MacKay

• The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino

• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies by Tom Peters & Robert H Waterman

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

• Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J Trump with Tony Schwartz

• The Art of War by SinTzu

• Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey

• Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar

Not only does his book get extra points from me for including a list of his favorites, Hayzlett himself gets extra credit for using a Garrison Keillor quote to introduce the list: "A book is a gift you can open again and again."

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Friday Links
Posted April 2, 2010 11:19 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

➻ Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is "here to report: Book tours are not dead." Not here, precisely, but over at Powell's blog.

➻ Eoin Purcell believes "Publishers should be platform agnostic," and explained why in a Publishing Perspectives article earlier this week: E-books are a Cul-de-sac.

➻ Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street hasn't gotten the buzz it probably deserves yet, which Janet Maslin began to remedy in the New York Times book section recently, writing:

It is a complex but imaginative book, an especially useful piece of the jigsaw puzzle that current Wall Street books are busy creating.

The author has documented economic history before in When Genius Failed, one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His new book will be out next week, and if you liked Too Big to Fail or The Big Short, you'll appreciate Lowenstein's addition to the genre.

➻ Harvey Mackay, author of Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive (also one of the 100 Best) showed up on Larry King Live recently with some great advice on how to break through an overcrowded job market and get noticed (and maybe even hired).

If you like what he has to say in the interview, his new book, Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door, delves into the issues more deeply and intimately and, as Larry King says "there isn't a more important book out." Now, Larry King is no stranger to hyperbole, but that remark is spot on for so many Americans right now, and it's great to see him spread the gospel of Mackay. If you want to find out how to network without being annoying, check out Part 2 of the King interview or head over to harveymackay.com.

➻ Jon has tried to convince a few of us in the office that Kell on Earth is worth watching. I respond with a quote from a recent interview with Ms. Cutrone in Inc. Magazine:

I think one of the greatest gifts for me professionally and for my clients was to learn the word “no.”

➻ I'm really looking forward to diving into the advance copy of Mark Frauenfelder's Made by Hand that showed up here recently. You'll here more from us on it eventually, but if you can't wait, you can whet your appetite on this week's Treehugger review. And if you're interested in a different DIY project, such as say a college education, check out Salon's interview with Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education.

➻ There is one more interview I want to point you to this weekend (or whenever you can get to it)—Michael Bungay Stanier interviewing Matt May.

➻ Walter S. Mossberg was amazingly able to review the iPad without chopping vegetables with it.

➻ Freakonomics the movie? Yep.

➻ Aaron isn't going to like it, but I've got nothing else, and the rest of the gang has already left for Conference Room H for a week-ending beer or four. So, here is Milwaukee's own, Juniper Tar. (This goes out to Shawn, Nancy and Mack.)

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