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ISBN 9780385513517 Published April 2004
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Posted June 8, 2006 4:31 a.m. by kate
In Book Reviews - 800 CEO Read Blog
By Steve Farber, Kaplan, April 2006
Ah, the joy of summertime. A chance to slow down and take some time off. Maybe a quick trip to beach or a visit to family members. But, then comes the problem of reading material. Don't want to take up valuable suitcase space with something so large that you have no space for anything else. Something on the small and light side, with perhaps just enough new insight and interest to keep the pages turning. May I suggest that you pick up The Radical Edge by Steve Farber. At 161 pages in the small book format, it won't take you long to read or take up much room in your luggage.
As in his first book we are lead through the story with management guru, Steve. He lives in his fabulous Mission Beach apartment in San Diego, California apartment battle weary and ready for his next assignment. Like a Hollywood movie, Steve paints a picture of his hectic life and it is here that you might forget that you are reading a business book and instead think you are reading the latest pulp paperback. Some authors are able to tell a story that provides an aha moment that catch you off guard. Mark Sanborn's book Fred Factor comes to mind as just such a device that works well. Dr. Spencer also did it in his book Who moved my Cheese?.
In such a brief book Steve works in many voices and while amusing I found myself wishing that he would get to the point. Not a bad way to spend a summer afternoon or a plan ride. As a quick, pleasant read you won't be disappointed. If your looking for a more detail road map you may want to look else where.
Steve makes the point to wake up and network with other people to change the world and yourself well and often. Radical Edge may be too touchy feeling for a lot of people. Radical Edge can be a way to stimulate conversation if handed out for a group read.
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Reviewed by Jim Egly
Amazon.com's Customer Favorites of 2004
Posted Jan. 4, 2005 8:55 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog
I published the Amazon.com's editors' picks in December. Here is the Top 10 Business and Investing Books based on sales at Amazon.com:
- Trump: How to Get Rich by Donald Trump
- Profitable Growth is Everyone's Business by Ram Charan
- The Fred Factor : How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by Mark Sanborn
- Free Prize Inside!: The Next Big Marketing Idea by Seth Godin
- The Working Poor : Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
- Confidence : How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Life 2.0 : How People Across America Are Transforming Their Lives by Finding the Where of Their Happiness by Rich Karlgaard
- The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell
- We Got Fired! : . . . And It's the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us by Harvey Mackay
- Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing by Roger Lowenstein
Tomorrow I am going to publish the 800-CEO-READ Top 25 of 2004 and explain a bit how we do ours.
