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ISBN 9780393062281 Published Jan. 2008
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Posted Feb. 2, 2009 10:44 a.m. by the-roy
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog
I know, I know - it's kind of a bit late for New Year's Wishes, but I'm gonna do it anyway! I'm offering up our listing of what was HOT HOT HOT last year from our customers across the borders, times zones and bodies of water! Take time to see what was popular in Poland, on demand in Denmark, cool in Canada and intoxicating in India!
Happy Groundhog Day!
2008 Best Sellers
Posted Jan. 20, 2009 2:00 a.m. by tom-ehrenfeld
In The Company - 800 CEO Read Blog
Below are our 2008 Best Sellers (links open in new windows/tabs)
1. How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business and in Life
2. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
3. The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea
5. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
6. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
7. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
8. Creating Success from the Inside Out: Develop the Focus and Strategy to Uncover the Life You Want
9. Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want
10. Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
12. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
13. We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business
15. Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
16. How We Lead Matters: Reflections on a Life of Leadership
17. Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
19. The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It
20. The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
21. Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can't
22. Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace With Today's Nontraditional Workforce
23. Rules to Break and Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism
24. Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
25. Think Big, Act Small: How America's Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive
The Best Books of 2008 - Business Pundit Edition
Posted Dec. 17, 2008 3:24 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
Business Pundit knows business books well, and has chosen the 10 from 2008 they think are the best. I think they have the right idea in describing the popular feelings of the year:
2008 came in two parts. Part I, which ran through Bear Stearns, carried the vestiges of prior years, when we thought we could get away with everything, never anticipating that in actuality, everything would get away from us. Some of the books on this list reflect that optimistic, braced mentality, when words like "social networking" still gave us more jitters than "401K."
The chosen 10 are:
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris, PublicAffairs Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe, Crown The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A. G. Lafley & Ram Charan, Random House (Jack Covert Selects) Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein, Yale University Press (Jack Covert Selects) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins (Jack Covert Selects) The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects) A Sense of Urgency by John Kotter, Harvard Business School Press (Jack Covert Selects) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr, W.W. Norton The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam
No qualms with that list here. As you can see, half of them were Jack Covert Selects. And I think they're right in stating "If these books don't cover every event of the year, they certainly cover the thought processes that trace through it."
I would also recommend today's Business Pundit post on The Personal MBA. We've been big fans of the idea for some time, having published Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA Manifesto on ChangeThis in late 2005.
And, we've posted it before, but here is the link to Business Pundits 25 Best Business Books Ever.
Fast Company's Best of 2008
Posted Dec. 2008 3:32 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
Fast Company chose its business books of the year last week. David Lidsky wrote the copy, stating:
The titles that follow run the gamut of what Fast Company covers: Innovation, creativity, design, sustainability, technology, advertising and marketing, global business, and entertainment. The theme running through them is that new ideas are the lifeblood of business, and the process of finding and sharing new ideas is essential to success.
And the books chosen were:
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas With Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr, W.W. Norton Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are by Rob Walker, Random House (Jack Covert Selects) Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn, W.W. Norton Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns, Random House IDEO Eyes Open Series: New York & London by Fred Dust and IDEO, Chronicle Books The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company by David A. Price, Knopf (Jack Covert Selects) Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman & Rom Brafman, Doubleday (Jack Covert Selects) The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga, Simon & Schuster X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking by Jeff Gordinier, Penguin Group
With a novel and a set of travel books, it looks like kind of a quirky list, but I find it intriguing. For example,writing of their pick of The White Tiger, they explain:
You could read 200 non-fiction books on India, its hypergrowth, and its impact on society and the world, and none will sear images and voices into your brain the way Adiga's Booker Prize-winning debut novel does. Its narrator, Balram Halwai, tells the story of his own bootstrapping rise from a poverty-stricken youth to entrepreneurial success in the country's high-tech sector.
Their explanation of the IDEO travel guides making a business book list is a bit more tenuous, but they are great books.
Booklist Top 10
Posted Oct. 17, 2008 5:01 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
Brad Hooper of the American Library Association's Booklist Online has posted his list of 2008's top 10 business titles (that have been reviewed on Booklist over the past year).
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr, W.W. Norton & Company Biography of the Dollar: How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege by Craig Karmin. Crown Business A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market by Jim Rogers, Random House Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Edward J. Renehan Jr., Basic Basics From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video by Joshua M. Greenberg, MIT Press The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation. By A. G. Lafley & Ram Charan, Crown Business (Jack Covert Selects) How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World's Greatest Car Company by David Magee. Portfolio It's Not about the Money: Unlock Your Money Type to Achieve Spiritual and Financial Abundance by Brent Kessel, HarperOne The Middle-Class Millionaire: The Rise of the New Rich and How They Are Changing America. By Russ Alan Prince & Lewis Schiff, Currency A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School Press (Jack Covert Selects)
Mr. Hooper states in his introduction to the list that "It is the privilege and even the duty of the conscientious public librarian to make certain the business collection is as inclusive as possible and will appeal to as many readers as possible." He's accomplished that rather admirably here.
