800-CEO-READ - Blog posts: We Are Smarter Than Me

Josh Kauffman may have started this tidal wave with his updated 2008 version of The Personal MBA. His list is 77 books long with the mantra "skip b-school and the $100,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books."

BusinessPundit followed with their 25 Best Business Books Ever post, placing Adam Smith at #25 and In Search of Excellence at the top spot.

For The Best Business Book of 2008 (so Far), Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog directs people to The Opposable Mind, Presentation Zen, Rain Making, Groundswell, Senior Leadership Teams and Brain Rules.

And then people started finding old lists to highlight. A "Business Book" hit on tweetscan directed me to a October 2007 post at Newly Corporate titled "15 Books For Rogue Professionals and How To Read Them At No Cost." Their no-cost solution is the library, and they recommend everything from Carnegie to Chris Anderson to China Inc.

This led me to another tweetscan hit where Melissa Woo, inspired by this post, spent the morning tweeting her favorites. As a fellow Milwaukeean, I thought I would list all of her favorites.

Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute

First, Break All The Rules by Buckingham and Coffman

The Thin Book of Naming Elephants by Hammond

Getting to Yes by Fisher

Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Lencioni

Crucial Conversations by Patterson

Cultivating Careers by Cynthia Golden

We Are Smarter Than Me by Libert and Spector

Another List
Posted Dec. 13, 2007 9:36 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

Rebecca pointed us all to Amazon's Best Books of 2007 last month, and in light of all the other lists coming out lately, I thought it'd be a good idea to revisit that list and highlight the business titles on it. There were three business categories--Business, Business Narratives, and Finance & Investing. So without further ado, the choice of Amazon's editors were...

Business:

*1-The Future of Management by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen

*2-Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip & Dan Heath

*3-The Leadership Challenge (4th Edition) by James M. Kouzes

*4-The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun

*5-Off-ramps and On-ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

*6-We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business by Barry Libert & John Spector

*7-The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) by Patrick M. Lencioni

*8-Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't by Ram Charan

*9-Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want by James H. Gilmore & Joseph B Pine II

*10-Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose by

Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe & Jag Sheth

Business Narratives:

*1-The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

*2-The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. by William D. Cohan

*3-The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

*4-The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

*5-A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark

*6-Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank

*7-Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

*8-Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston

*9-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

*10-All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes by Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Finance & Investing:

*1-The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle

*2-Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market by James "RevShark" DePorre

*3-Wise Investing Made Simple: Larry Swedroe's Tales to Enrich Your Future by Larry Swedroe

*4-Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig

*5-Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning by Katherine Burton

*6-Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics by William Bonner & Lila Rajiva

*7-Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth by Hildy Richelson & Stan Richelson

*8-Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter D. Schiff with John Downes

*9-A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber

*10-The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Wikinomics also made the list in the Computers & Internet category, as did David Weinberger's excellent book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. The Age of Turbulence and The Shock Doctrine made the list in multiple categories, both making the Current Events list and The Age of Turbulence making the Memoirs list as well. The Black Swan also got the nod in Nonfiction.

And don't forget to check back Monday to see who made the shortlist for our first annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards.

We Are Smarter Than Me on Morning Edition
Posted Oct. 31, 2007 10:33 a.m. by 800-ceo-read
In Human Resources/Organizational Development - 800 CEO Read Blog

Tomorrow, Thursday, morning, Barry Libert and Jon Spector will be on NPR's Morning Edition to talk about We Are Smarter Than Me. It starts at 8:50 ET.

Tune in tomorrow. If you miss it, it will be archived on the website: www.npr.org