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The Portfolio Catalog & Business Beat
Posted Nov. 6, 2009 3:43 a.m. by dylan
In Publishing Industry - 800 CEO Read Blog

Being the publisher of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, we're obviously fond of the folks at Portfolio. Beyond the personal connection, though, we feel they have consistently put out some of most intriguing books in the business genre over the past decade, and continue to do so. The list below contains the titles coming out of that publishing house in hardcover before year end. (In the interest of full disclosure, I nabbed this list from the Portfolio Javelin blog.)

• Working for You Isn’t Working for Me: The Ultimate Guide to Managing Your Boss by Katherine Crowley & Kathi Elster

  On Sale 9/24

• Maestro: A Surprising Story About Leading by Listening by Roger Nierenberg

  On Sale 10/15

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

  On Sale 10/15

• The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan Knee, Bruce Greenwald, & Ava Seave

  On Sale 10/15

• The Unforced Error: Why Some Managers Get Promoted While Others Get Eliminated by Jeffrey A. Krames

  On Sale 10/15

• Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek

  On Sale 10/29

• The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments by Charles Goyette

  On Sale 10/29

• You Are What You Choose: The Habits of Mind that Really Determine How We Make Decisions by Scott de Marchi & James T. Hamilton

  On Sale 11/12

• The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis by Josh Kosman

  On Sale 11/12

• No Size Fits All: From Mass Marketing to Mass Handselling by Tom Hayes & Michael S. Malone

  On Sale 11/12

• Inside Obama’s Brain by Sasha Abramsky

  On Sale 12/10

• Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures by Dan Roam

  On Sale 12/30

• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures (Expanded) by Dan Roam

  On Sale 12/31

• Live It, Love It, Earn It: A Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom by Marianna Olszewski

  On Sale 12/31

• Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks: Inside the Contrarian Mind of Billionare Mogul Sam Zell by Ben Johnson

  On Sale 12/31

• The Little Blue Book of Marketing: Build a Killer Plan in Less than a Day by Steve Lance and Paul Kurnit

  On Sale 12/31

• Can They Do That?: Retaking Our Fundamental Rights in the Workplace by Lewis Maltby

  On Sale 12/31

• Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business by David Siegel

  On Sale 12/31

• The Active Asset Allocator: How ETFs Can Supercharge Your Portfolio by Jennifer Woods

  On Sale 12/31

And, if you haven't checked out The Business Beat over at Penguin's From the Publisher's Office website, you really should (Jack is a regular contributor to the feature). This month you'll hear Simon Sinek talk about his new book, Start with Why (listed above), and Jack discuss Max DePree's calssic, Leadership Is an Art. The latest episode is embedded below. If you like our blog, you'll love The Business Beat.

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inBubbleWrap - Leadership is an Art
Posted Feb. 16, 2009 7:00 a.m. by dylan
In 100 Best - 800 CEO Read Blog

Contrary to last week's cautionary tale of Enron, we have a book this week that is sure to be uplifting. Heck, it's got a picture of a soaring bird on the cover. It's Max De Pree's Leadership is an Art, a staple of any leader's literary diet. The incomparable Tom Peters calls the book "Thoughtful, personal, human, persuasive... Give it to a daughter, son, or Fortune 500 chairman. They should bless you for years to come." Tom's right, and though I highly doubt that any of you are my son or daughter, and I don't know if anyone reading this is a Fortune 500 chairman, I'd like to give you a copy of this book anyway. I have 25 available.

Head on over to inBubbleWrap and win yourself one. Then, please, bless me for years to come. Please?

Jack's take on the book is below.

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Best Business Books via U.S. News and World Report
Posted May 18, 2007 9:06 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

U.S. News and World Report has a huge special report on the Best Business Books. Their opening says:

Hundreds of business books are published each year. Chances are at least one has the answers you're looking for. But how to find it? U.S. News spoke with 14 leaders from all walks of business life—from academics to entrepreneurs to corporate execs—about the five books they consider indispensable reading for managers.

When magazines do these lists we always create a summary so people can see the picks in one quick view. The commentary that each leader gives is always interesting, so make sure you click through on the author's name if you see something that interests you.

Good To Great made four appearances on the list and Collins is one of leaders providing reading recommendations. Porter's Competitive Strategy appears twice. Otherwise, the picks are unique. I personally like Jeff Pfeffer's picks and reasons the best.

Best Business Books

Chris Anderson (editor-in-chief of Wired, author of The Long Tail)

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2001)
• The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual by Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger (2000)

• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly (1995)

• Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology by George Gilder (1989)

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)

Jack Brennan (CEO of Vanguard)

• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove (1996)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter (1980)

• Economics by Paul Samuelson (1948)

• Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree (1989)

Robert Bruner (Dean of Darden School of Business, University of Virginia)

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957)

• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt (2005)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• Leading Change by John Kotter (1996)

• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker (1967)

Jim Buckmaster (CEO of craigslist)

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)

• The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2005)

• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman (1988)

• The Discourses by Epictetus (second century B.C.)

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric Raymond (1999)

Jim Collins (author of Good to Great)

• In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years by Jim and Sybil Stockdale (1984, out of print, ISBN 0870213083)

• The Second World War (six volumes) by Winston Churchill (1948–1953)

• Personal History by Katharine Graham (1997)

• Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers (1962)

• The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen J. Gould (1980)

Mark Cuban (owner of the Dallas Mavericks)

• The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie (1889)

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)

• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen (1997)

• The Only Investment Guide You Will Ever Need by Andrew Tobias (1978)

• Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work!) by Stephan Schiffman (1987)

Thomas Donaldson (professor at Wharton School of Business)

• The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (fifth century B.C.)

• Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker (1946)

• Modern Corporation and Private Property by Adolf Berle and Gardinar Means (1932)

• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter (1942)

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)

Carly Fiorina (former CEO of Hewlett-Packard)

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan (2002)

• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman (2005)

• Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the American Industrial Enterprise by Alfred Chandler (1962)

• Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age by Tom Peters (2003)

Jackie Fouse (CFO of Alcon)

• Blindness by José Saramago (1995)

• The Quest for Value by G. Bennett Stewart III (1991)

• Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald (2005)

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas Friedman (1999)

• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott (1994)

Robert Joss (dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business)

• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1981)

• The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker (1954)

• My Years With General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (1963)

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jerry Porras and Jim Collins (1994)

• Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society by John Gardner (1964)

Jeffery Pfeffer (professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business)

• Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad (1994)

• The Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor (1960)

• Influence: How and Why People Agree to Things by Robert Cialdini (1984)

• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (1946)

• Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner (1997)

John W. Rogers Jr. (chairman and CEO of Ariel Capital Management)

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro (1974)

• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 by Taylor Branch (1988)

• Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein (1995)

• Succeeding Against the Odds by John H. Johnson with Lerone Bennett Jr. (1989, out of print, ISBN 1567430023)

• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1) by Robert A. Caro (1982)

Hector Ruiz (chairman and CEO of AMD)

• A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (1899)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C. K. Prahalad (2005)

• Dilbert by Scott Adams (ongoing)

Deborah Wright (CEO of Carver Bancorp)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't by Jim Collins (2001)

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter (1980)

• I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson (2002)

• Meditations of the Heart by Howard Thurman (1953)

Note: I left a couple books off because the leaders were self-promoting themselves or others associated with them.

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Biz Books from B-Schools - Part II
Posted April 29, 2004 10:18 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

When I told Jack about the series, he proudly pointed me to the same exercise BusinessWeek did in 2000. The panel then was a combination of practioners and professors. Along with Mr. Covert, they talked to Jim Collins, Jeff Bezos, Durk Jager, and Bob Pittman to name a few.

Here were/are Jack's recommendations:

• THE AGE OF UNREASON by Charles Handy
• COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE by Gary Hamel with C.K. Prahalad
• COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE by Michael E. Porter
• EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE by Peter F. Drucker
• LEADERSHIP IS AN ART by Max DePree
• OUT OF THE CRISIS by W. Edwards Deming
• SERVICE AMERICA by Karl Albrecht and Ron Zemke
• TEAM HANDBOOK by Peter Scholtes
• THE ONE TO ONE FUTURE by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers



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