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Posted Aug. 6, 2010 10:47 a.m. by dylan
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➻ Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor at Harvard Business School and author of Supercorp and Confidence, expounded last week on some timeless Leadership Tips from Tony Hayward (or Not). There are five:
- Deny and minimize problems.
- Emphasize your own power and importance.
- Make the story all about you.
- Never apologize, and don't even pretend to learn from your mistakes.
- Hang onto your job even when it's clear you should go.
And Bob Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule, tells us Why BP's New CEO Is Lucky that he is following such baffling incompetence.
➻ Clay Johnson teaches you How to Rebuild Your Attention Span and Focus over at Lifehacker... if you can actually finish the article, that is.
Most people who click on this article won't finish reading it. So says Nick Carr. The New York Times will remind you that you'll probably forget it in a few minutes. This idea's so prevalent, even the Onion has started taking jabs.
His tips include ditching the second monitor, turning your mouse off, and limiting the number of tabs you have open at a time. Sounds pretty simple and straightforward: limit how you let technology distract you. Now on to the next link...
➻ Jeff Bezos sat down with Charlie Rose last week to announce the launch of Amazon's $139 Wi-Fi Kindle. You can read GalleyCat's live-blog coverage of the program if you want the major points quickly, but I'd recommend watching the entire interview.
➻ NPR's All Things Considered did a story recently about how, In [the] E-Publishing Revolution, [the] Rights Battle Wears On. Lynn Neary curated the conversation with Scott Turow (the President of the Author's Guild), Tom Allen (CEO of the Association of American Publishers) and Jane Friedman (former CEO of HarperCollins and CEO and Co-Founder of Open Road Integrated Media) all being interviewed. For those of you who didn't follow the story while it was happening, it is one of the more succinct explanations of the recent dispute between Random House and the Wylie literary agency. (If you don't feel like reading the transcript, you can listen to the story.)
➻ The New York Times' Steven Davidoff looked at The Next Steps for a Buyout of Barnes & Noble today.
➻ Marco Rothko penned a haunting essay (for the forthcoming book The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books being released by Soft Skull Press next year, picked up by
➻ The Denver Post photo blog has posted some rare photos of America in Color from 1939-1943, as America was coming out of the Depression and being put back to work in the war effort, that will change your visual image of that era. I've posted one below.
➻ Thinking it would go well with the photo above, I was looking for something specifically from The Dave Rawlings Machine for you, but a Red Dirt Halo will have to do.
Amazon's Best of 2009
Posted Dec. 4, 2009 6:11 a.m. by dylan
In General Business - 800 CEO Read Blog
Amazon does an interesting thing every year, putting their best selling books in each genre on the same page as their editors' pick so you can easily compare the two.
I am sure that, were I an author, I'd hope to see my name on the bestsellers list. It would mean that I had not only done well financially for the year but, more importantly, that my book had made it into the hands of more readers—my ideas into the minds of more people.
That said, as a reader I always look at the editors' list first. I don't know who Amazon's editors actually are—come to think of it, the only person I know works for Amazon is Jeff Bezos—but I'm guessing that, like us, they spend their days at work poring over the many books that come across their desks, and they've probably become pretty damn good at picking which ones they're going to take home and focus on. There are a lot of books every year that will never see the light of a bestsellers list—that will never catch the popular eye—that nonetheless contain provoking insights for thought leaders and have a greater long-term effect on our lives than a flash-in-the-pan bestseller.
Ideally, of course, you'd make both lists. Congratulations to Matthew B. Crawford, author of Shop Class as Soulcraft, and the authors of Animal Spirits, George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, on that feat.
Here are the complete lists in Amazon's Business & Investing category for 2009:
The customer favorites:
- House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan, Doubleday
- The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide: Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times by Martin D. Weiss, John Wiley & Sons
- Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods, Regnery Press
- Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan: Keeping Your Money Safe & Sound by Suze Orman, Spiegel & Grau
- The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History by Harry S. Dent, Free Press
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford, Penguin Press
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press
- How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins, HarperCollins
- Strengths-Based: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie, Gallup Press
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi, Workman Publishing Company
The editors' list:
- The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox, HarperBusiness
- Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett, Free Press
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford, Penguin Press
- How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way by Roger Connors & Tom Smith, Portfolio
- Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher, Penguin Press
- In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel, Crown Business
- Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith, John Wiley & Sons
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Princeton University Press
- SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Crown Business
- Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod, Portfolio
Other notable editors' picks are T.J. Stiles' The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt published by Penguin Press, winner of the NBA in nonfiction and put in the Biographies & Memoirs category by Amazon's editors, and Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, published by Metropolitan Books, which was the number one editors' pick in the History category.
Other customer favorites include Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed and The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes by Bryan Burrough, both published by Penguin Press, and This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Kenneth S. Rogoff and Carmen M Reinhart and published by Princeton University Press. All of these were in the History category.
To delve into the lists more, head on over to Amazon's Best of 2009.
The Future of Working for Good.
Posted Aug. 20, 2009 8:44 a.m. by jon
In Blog - 800 CEO Read Blog
As the economy shifts, and large corporations seek new avenues to retain financial standing and brand recognition, a new type of company is emerging. Author Rosabeth Moss Kanter calls these "vanguard companies," and like IBM, Proctor and Gamble, and others, they not only focus on the business at hand, but also apply their resources in big ways to areas that might be unexpected.
In her book, Supercorp, Kanter gives in-depth accounts of some of these situations. For example, IBM's involvement in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami. The effort the company invested was, in some ways, beyond what even the government was capable of, raising an interesting situation and questions of who people can depend on in times of need. From these stories, Kanter identifies various traits of the management involved, and stresses that these traits are important to have as companies strive to become not only relevant, but powerful in ways never seen previously.
In fact, in Kanter's opinion, social issues are the new frontier of innovation, and those who aren't focusing there, aren't going to last, as situations and demands for support continue to rise. This fact, and the book itself, are really interesting in that they combine non-profit sentimentality with real capitalist structures to create companies that may indeed become super heroes to many.
Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year - The Longlist
Posted Aug. 12, 2009 10:40 a.m. by dylan
In General Business - 800 CEO Read Blog
The longlist for the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award has been announced. The press release states that "The award is designed to highlight the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance, and economics."
The books on the longlist are:
- Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A Akerlof, Robert J Shiller
- Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People by Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
- Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World by Stephen Green
- House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street By William D Cohan (Cohan won the award two years ago for his first book, The Last Tycoons.)
- How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give in by Jim Collins
- Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nilekani
- In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic by David Wessel
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
- The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy
- The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox
- Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
- Why Your World Is about to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization by Jeff Rubin
The shortlist will be announced in September, and the overall winner will be announced at gala dinner in London at the end of October. We will, of course, keep you informed of further developments.
