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Inc. Magazine's Best Books for Business Owners
Posted Dec. 14, 2009 7:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

Jack was asked—along with author and editor-at-large Bo Burlingham, Inc.'s Leigh Buchanan, columnist Joel Spolsky, and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh—to recommend books for Inc. Magazine's list of The Best Books for Business Owners of 2009. Together, they a have put together a really stellar list of books. The are:

• Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model by John Mullins and Randy Komisar, Harvard Business Press

• Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith, John Wiley & Sons

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and Company

• Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors (But Maybe Not Venture Capitalists) by Basil Peters, self published

• Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game by Paul Midler, John Wiley & Sons

• Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change by Jeremy Gutsche, Gotham Books

• How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins, HarperCollins

• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew Crawford, Penguin Press

• Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones, Harvard Business Press

• Crush It!: Why Now Is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperStudio

• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown, HarperBusiness

• Borrowing Brilliance: The Six Steps to Business Innovation by Building on the Ideas of Others by David Kord Murray, Gotham Books

• The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy, PublicAffairs

• I Love You More Than My Dog: Five Decisions That Drive Extreme Customer Loyalty in Good Times and Bad by Jeanne Bliss, Portfolio

Head on over to the Inc.'s slide-show to read more about these great books.

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Crowdsourced Entrepreneurial Reads
Posted Sept. 14, 2009 9:17 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson from avc.com kicked up interest in books that entreprenuers should read. Fred, in particular, made the point that "there is way more insight to be gained from stories than from business books." He suggested Kavalier and Clay, Atlas Shrugged, The Prince, and anything by Shakespeare.

At the end of his post, he asked for more suggestions. The post generated 191 comments and prompted the creation of a wiki.

I pulled all the books from the wiki over into this post and linked to the books. The [FW] tag denotes that it was endorsed by Mr. Wilson himself directly or in the comments of the original post.

• Atlas Shrugged [FW]
• The Prince [FW]
• All of Shakespeare's Histories & Tragedies [FW]
• Founders at Work
• Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Catch-22 [FW]
• The Gold Coast
• State of Fear
• Confessions of a Street Addict
• Selling the Wheel
• Plato's Republic
• The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
• Moby Dick [FW]
• The Art of War [FW]
• Exodus
• Taking on the World
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Garp [FW]
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull [FW]
• Rossi: MotoGenius
• The Puritan Gift
• The Fountainhead [FW]
• Pillars of the Earth
• The White Tiger
• The Monk and the Riddle
• Outrageous Optimism: Wisdom for the Entrepreneurial Journey
• The E-Myth Revisited
• Setting The Table [FW]
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Siddartha [FW]
• Confederacy of Dunces
• Dark Star Safari
• Project X - Nissin Cup Noodle
• The Red Horse
• St. Augustine's Confessions
• Mastery
• The Four Agreements (Miguel Ruiz)
• Tao Te Ching (Lau Tzu)
• The Sharper your knife, the less you cry (Kathleen Flinn)
• What Would Google Do? (Jeff Jarvis)
• Burn Rate (Michael Wolff)
• Startup (Jerry Kaplan)
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell)
• The Alchemist (Coelho)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
• The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
• Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner)
• The 33 Strategies of War
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Hide a dagger behind a smile
• Cold Calling For Chickens
• Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (Flores)
• The Art Of Profitability
• The Innovator's Dilemma
• Crossing The Chasm
• Blue Ocean Strategy
• What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
• The Compassionate Samurai
• The Art of Learning
• The Selfish Gene
• Capital (Karl Marx)
• Mein Kampf
• The Singularity is Near
• How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Hope is not a Strategy
• The Four steps to the Epiphany
• The Principles of Product Development Flow - Second Generation Lean Product Development
• One Hen
• Blueprint To A Billion

• Moneyball
• The Places In Between
• Mavericks at work
• Blink
• The Tipping Point
• Outliers
• Freakonomics
• Behind Closed Doors (Secrets of great management)

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BusinessWeek's Summer Reading '09
Posted July 28, 2009 2:46 p.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

We know summer is already starting to wane, but we haven't linked to Business Week's recommending reading for the season. Having recommended quite of few of these, we think this is a great list.

• Rubies in the Orchard by Lynda Resnick with Francis Wilkinson
• Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: Managing in a Downturn by Ram Charan
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
• How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
• The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers by Keith McFarland
• In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules by Stacy Perman

BW also recommends a variety of podcasts including The Small Business Podcast, Get-It-Done Guy, Manager Tools, Help! My Business Sucks!, and SBA Podcasting.

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Channel Insider's 21 to Read
Posted May 27, 2009 4:49 a.m. by dylan
In 100 Best - 800 CEO Read Blog

Channel Insider recently posted a slide show of 21 Must Read Books for Business Success. It was compiled by asking "successful solution providers what books have both inspired them and shaped their approach to making their businesses a success." You can get detailed descriptions of the books by viewing the slide show, but the list itself, with links, below. If you're interested in knowing which books are also in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, they are starred.

• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies* by Tom Peters & Robert Waterman
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity* by David Allen
• The Power of Process: Unleashing the Source of Competitive Advantage by Kiran K. Garimella
• How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business by Dave Hitz
• Balanced Scorecard Strategy for Dummies by Chuck Hannabarger, Rick Buchman & Peter Economy
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
• How to Win Friends and Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
• The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business* by Clayton M. Christensen (They throw in The Innovator's Solution here as well.)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference* by Malcolm Gladwell (They cheat a little here, too, adding Gladwell's subsequent books, Blink and Outliers to this.)
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
• Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers* by Geoffrey A. Moore
• The E Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It* by Michael E. Gerber

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change* by Stephen R. Covey
• The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker

• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done* by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan Ram Charan
• The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg & John David Mann
• Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

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Tweet-a-tweet-Tweet Recap
Posted May 2009 9:05 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Publishing Industry - 800 CEO Read Blog

We posted quite a bit over on twitter this week. We tried pulling together what we saw people saying about business books, recommendations for business books and some ideas around the future of publishing at large. Here is the what we found:

# Authors 4 #followfriday @gladwell @stevenbJohnson @danielpink @alanmwebber @jack_welch @suzywelch @johncmaxwell @tonyrobbins @Rich_Dad about 4 hours ago from web

# RT @TalentAcquisit The Art of War by Sun Tzu is 1 of the best business strategy books. For business strategy check out http://www.sonshi.com 9:18 PM Apr 29th from web

# RT @charlesseybold Books: finished Predictably Irrational (****), starting Art of Profitability (v good so far), biz novel like The Goal 1:52 PM Apr 29th from web

# @kennypratt yes, here is the mystery box url: http://800ceoread.com/mysterybox 10:04 PM Apr 28th from web

# RT @tomewing:The Cluetrain Manifesto is the Velvet Underground of biz books: everyone who read it formed a dodgy start-up. (via @ricklevine) 3:57 PM Apr 28th from web

# RT @mdrips Escape from Cubicle Nation is ok; Think Big Manifesto totally sucks; Me 2.0 is mediocre. Few biz books are worthwhile. 3:56 PM Apr 28th from web

# RT @robbiebax @BtoBGuru great non-social media biz books 2008 "forces for Good" "back of the napkin" "predictably irrational"--loved em all! 3:02 PM Apr 28th from web

# RT @whgtoga Cool book ! One of the top 100 biz books of all time. (CEO READ) The Story Factor- Annette Simmons. 2:57 PM Apr 28th from web

# Great to see @jack_welch joining Twitternation today.2:38 PM Apr 28th from web

# oops RT @sarahcannon Finished reading Tribes over wkend, halfway thru The Tipping Point this wk. Both read too easily to be biz books...2:35 PM Apr 28th from web

# @sarahcannon Finished reading Tribes over wkend, halfway thru The Tipping Point this wk. Both read too easily to be biz books...2:35 PM Apr 28th from web

# Looking for what business books to read? Check out our 377 reviews - http://800ceoread.com/blog/... 3:52 PM Apr 27th from web

# RT @Techmeme Amazon Acquires Stanza, an E-book Application for the iPhone (Brad Stone/Bits) http://bit.ly/JkHFz (via @debbiestier)3:42 PM Apr 27th from web

# RT @sharif28 Just kick-started my daily reading regimen by ordering 3 new books: Tribes, Business Stripped Bare and the Think Big Manifesto.3:33 PM Apr 27th from web

# RT @LauraJDaley My two favorite biz books are Primal Leadership & A Whole New Mind. 12:00 PM Apr 26th from web

# You can follow Nancy at @nancyduarte.12:00 PM Apr 26th from web

# Nancy Duarte on passion and purpose - http://bit.ly/JFNAX The Element, Outliers, and Talent Is Overrated all intersect here. 11:58 AM Apr 26th from web

# RT @chinasolved Pirated biz-books now @ my sbwy sta. Saw 'Black Swan' 'Essential Drucker" & 'Outliers' for 10 rbm each. 10:51 AM Apr 26th from web

# RT @fredwilson: Kenny Lerer is co-founder of HuffPo & here's his thoughts on newspapers http://bit.ly/v8Z0y

You can follow us at @800ceoread or jump over to our twitter page.

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