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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
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.
Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2008
Posted Nov. 18, 2008 4:52 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
Airport retailer Hudson Booksellers has announced its best books of 2008, and chosen five in the business category. They are:
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and Company
- Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) by Jeffrey Kluger, Hyperion Books
- Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn, W.W. Norton & Company
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam
In general non-fiction, they chose Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat & Crowded and Fareed Zakaria's Post-American World, both of which would feel at home on business bookshelves. They also chose Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food in this category which, although it's not necessarily a business book, many of us here liked a lot (we ran his Eater's Manifesto on ChangeThis).
Hudson wants you to vote on the best books of the year as well. From their website:
Beginning Dec. 1, customers can log onto the Hudson Group website to vote for their own favorite titles of 2008. All entrants will be eligible to win all 30 Hudson 's Best titles! Visit www.hudsongroup.com (after Dec. 1) for more details.
David Sedaris's When You Are Engulfed in Flames was this year's overall winner. You can find the entire list here.
** June's Top 10 International Bestsellers **
Posted July 3, 2008 4:17 a.m. by delicious
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog
You guessed it!
It's that time again to find out what everyone is reading outside of the United States! We had quite a busy month internationally, and here's just a smattering of what was popular:
Well - those are the top 10 books - Hope you all have a GREAT HOLIDAY!!
Interviews Galore!
Posted May 15, 2008 6:30 a.m. by dylan
In Audio - 800 CEO Read Blog
If you haven't been over to the IT Conversations website yet, we would highly recommend it--specifically this interview of Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He discusses social networking technologies, how they are rarely used as envisioned by their creators, and how they are evolving. Or, listen to Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn of the Environmental Defense Fund talk about their new book, Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming. They discuss "The New Industrial Revolution," and some of the technologies that can help save the planet.
Personality Not Included author Rohit Bhargava and Accidental Branding author David Vinjamuri have done something rather interesting on their blogs. They interviewed each other, asking ten questions each, and posted the interviews at the same time. You can read David's interview of Rohit here, and Rohit's of David here.
I spoke recently with David Bach, author of Go Green, Live Rich, about how--contrary to popular belief--going green can actually save you money.
And finally, if you can't wait for his book to come out later this year, you can get your Gladwell fix by watching his talk at the 2004 TED Conference, or listening to him tell stories about his time at The Washington Post on This American Life (Act Four of the episode). These two aren't actually interviews, but they are hilarious.
