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ISBN 9780385516228 Published Feb. 2007
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Strategy Paradox
Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do about It)
By Michael Raynor 

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800-CEO-READ 2007 Best Sellers
Posted Feb. 5, 2008 2:12 a.m. by kate
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Below you'll find the list of our top 25 bestsellers for 2007. Congratulations and thanks to everyone on the list!

  1. The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
    by Stephen M.R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill; Free Press.


    Leadership expert Stephen Covey uncovers why trust is vital in professional and personal relationships.

  2. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
    by Bill George and Peter Sims; Jossey-Bass.


    Former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of 125 outstanding leaders of today and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader.

  3. It's Your Ship
    by D. Michael Abrashoff; Warner Business Books.

    Business managers will benefit from Abrashoff's guiding belief that focus should be on empowering your people rather than on chain of command.

  4. Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth
    by David Thomson; John Wiley & Sons.

    Follow this blueprint to turn your idea into the next multi-billion dollar company.

  5. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
    by Chip Heath, Dan Heath; Random House.

    The brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier.

  6. Unlock Behavior, Unleash Profits: Developing Leadership Behavior That Drives Profitability in Your Organization
    by Leslie Wilk Braksick; McGraw-Hill.

    Fortune 500 thought leader Leslie Braksick provides powerful tools to help you, whether you're an executive, entrepreneur, or manager, in any field, to unlock behavior and unleash unprecedented profits.

  7. Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Message
    by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba; Kaplan.

    A provocative new exploration of the ramifications of today's burgeoning social media.

  8. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
    by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter; Hyperion.

    One of the nation's most sought-after executive coaches shows how subtle changes can make all the difference when climbing those last few rungs of the corporate ladder.

  9. The Power of Nice
    by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval; Currency.

    In business, nice guys (and gals) really do finish first.

  10. Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now
    by Vickie L. Milazzo; John Wiley & Sons.

    Discover and use your strengths to pursue your dreams.

  11. The Long Tail
    by Chris Anderson; Hyperion.

    The Long Tail was coined by Chris Anderson to describe the recent development of endless niche markets.

  12. Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace With Today's Nontraditional Workforce
    by Cathleen Benko, Anne Weisberg; Harvard Business School Press.

    This book is centered on the powerful insight that career options in today’s economy need to accommodate the rising and falling phases of employee engagement as it changes over time.

  13. The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life
    by Loral Langemeier; McGraw-Hill.

    Whether you want to partner with others or create your own team to start, fix, or buy a business, Langemeier shows you how to turn it into a Cash Machine that makes money from Day One.

  14. The Flip Side: Break Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Back
    by Flip Flippen; Springboard Press.

    Flippen presents a simple process for learning how to identify our personal constraints and take the necessary steps to correct self-limiting behaviors. He shows that we will experience a dramatic surge in productivity, achieve things we have only dreamed of, and find greater happiness overall.

  15. Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough: Reinventing The Customer Experience
    by Jonathan M. Tisch, Karl Weber; Wiley.

    Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough will show you how to improve every customer touch point; understand what customers really want and need; and design organizational structures to meet those needs.

  16. Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation
    by James P. Andrew, Harold L. Sirkin, John Butman; Harvard Business School Press.

    Payback offers a new way to think about and manage innovation.

  17. Finding the Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the Hot Stocks of Tomorrow
    by Michael Moe; Portfolio.

    Learn how winners like Dell, eBay, and Home Depot could have been spotted in their start-up phase and how you can find Wall Street’s future giants.

  18. The Strategy Paradox: Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)
    by Michael E. Raynor; Currency.

    Raynor sheds light on the collision between commitment and uncertainty that many managers face in the pursuit for success. He presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today’s opportunities while preparing for an uncertain future.

  19. The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
    by Tommy Newberry; Tyndale House Publishers.

    Whether you are at a low point or a high point in your life, the authors assert that The 4:8 Principle can help you experience joy by design--God's design.

  20. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
    by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne; Harvard Business School Press.

    The authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors, but from creating blue oceans--untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

  21. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
    by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams; Portfolio.

    Smart firms can harness the collective capability and genius of online communities to spur innovation, growth, and success.

  22. StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
    by Tom Rath; Gallup Press.

    This strengths reference, accompanied by a code for an online assessment test, is an extension of the original StrengthsFinder, now updated with a customized version of your top 5 strengths and a guide for applying your strengths in the world.

  23. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life
    by John G. Miller; Putnam Publishing Group.

    QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, already a phenomenon in its self-published edition, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability.

  24. I Didn't See it Coming: The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business
    by Nancy C. Widmann, Elaine J. Eisenman, Amy Dorn Kopelan; Wiley.

    The authors provide critical counsel and keen observation on how all employees can develop strategic insights, effective tools, and sharp instincts for reading the room and controlling their own career destiny.

  25. The Starbucks Experience
    by Joseph Michelli; McGraw-Hill.

    Michelli reveals how you can follow the Starbucks way to...reach out to entire communities, listen to individual workers and consumers, seize growth opportunities in every market, and custom-design a truly satisfying experience that benefits everyone involved.

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If you'd like a PDF of our 2007 bestseller list, click here. If you're interested, we publish a monthly bestseller list here.



strategy + business Best Books of 2007
Posted Dec. 27, 2007 3:15 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

The folks over at strategy + business have chosen what they consider the best business books of the year. There were eight categories, and each one was assigned to an expert in that field for review. Each reviewer also delivered an essay on the books chosen, and they are all good reads. The categories were Behavioral Theory, Biography, Biotech, Capitalism, The Entrepreneurs, Human Capital, Innovation, and Strategy. If you'd like to learn more about the the reviewers, or would like to read their essays, you can find all of that on their website (membership is free). Here I will just list the books chosen, putting "s+p's Top Shelf" in bold and starring the books that made our shortlist as well.

Behavioral Theory: reviewed by Howard Rheingold

Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity by John Henry Clippinger, PublicAffairs

*Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger, Times Books

The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan, Bloomsbury USA

Biography: reviewed by James O'Toole

Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw, Penguin Press

Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard S. Tedlow, Portfolio

The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World by Randall Stross, Crown

Biotech: reviewed by by Joe Flower

Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech Planet by Denise Caruso, Hybrid Vigor Press

Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech by Gary P. Pisano, Harvard Business School Press

Capitalism: reviewed by Diane Coyle

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, & Carl J. Schramm, Yale University Press

*Grande Expectations: A Year in the Life of Starbucks' Stock by Karen Blumenthal, Crown Business

The Most Important Fish in the Sea by Bruce Franklin, Island Press

The New Capitalists:How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, & David Pitt-Watson, Harvard Business School Press

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw, Belknap Press

The Entrepreneurs: reviewed by Tom Ehrenfeld

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston, Apress

Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars, and How You Can, Too! by Kim Lavine, St. Martin's Press

*No Man's Land: What to Do When Your Company Is Too Big to Be Small but Too Small to Be Big by Doug Tatum, Portfolio

*Typo: The Last American Typesetter, or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars by David Silverman, Soft Skull Press

Human Capital: reviewed by R. Gopalakrishnan

30 Reasons Employees Hate Their Managers: What Your People May Be Thinking and What You Can Do about It by Bruce L. Katcher with Adam Snyder, AMACOM

Ego Check: Why Executive Hubris Is Wrecking Companies and Careers and How to Avoid the Trap by Mathew Hayward, Kaplan Business

Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner, Harvard Business School Press

Hot Spots: Why Some Teams, Workplaces, and Organizations Buzz with Energy — and Others Don't by Lynda Gratton, Berrett-Koehler

The Truth about Being a Leader... and Nothing But the Truth by Karen Otazo, FT Press

Innovation: reviewed by Michael Schrage

Brilliant! Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology by Bob Johnstone, Prometheus Books

Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Pro-grammers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg, Crown Books

The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun, O'Reilly Media

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton, Morgan Kaufmann

Strategy: reviewed by David Newkirk

Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition by Ming Zeng & Peter J. Williamson, Harvard Business School Press

Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan, Columbia University Press

The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (and What to Do about It) by Michael E. Raynor, Doubleday

Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth by Chris Zook, Harvard Business School Press

Wal-Smart: What It Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World by William H. Marquard, McGraw-Hill

We're big fans of the strategy + business list and the essays they include each year. Todd has written a post on the list each year dating back to 2003. If you're interested in what titles they've chosen in the past, I've linked to those posts below.

2006

2005

2004

2003



BusinessWeek's Best Business Books of 2007
Posted Dec. 12, 2007 10:17 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

I have always appreciated BusinessWeek's commitment to the category of business books. The magazine reviews books in each issue and publish its monthly business book bestseller list.

Continuing in their support, here are the slideshow of books BusinessWeek choose in 2007 as their Best Business Books of the Year:




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