800-CEO-READ - Blog posts: How

Recently, I found a book called India's Century by Kamal Nath, that would be a great precursor to our listing of February's top sellers in other countries. Here's just a sampling of the book, from chapter five:

In the foreign mind, it was Mumbai (Bombay), of all Indian cities, that used to be the best suited to evoke a vision of modern India. This was all the more evident when I, as the minister for the environment and forests, represented India at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the "Earth Summit", as it was called - in Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1992. In the course of the conference, which lasted 11 days, I got to know the representatives of a large swath of nation-states, many of them so new that I could barely locate them in a world atlas. Some of them had been born as a result of the breakup of the USSR; others were little specks of land strewn across the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. Many of these representative of new countries, as I could sense, had difficulty in placing New Delhi, the capital, on their mental map of India (unless, of course, they were told that it was close to the Taj Mahal, which brought a glint of recognition to every eye). But Mumbai was know to one and all. The Ukrainian or Moroccan knew it as the home of India's film industry. The man from the little island republic in Micronesia on the other hand, knew Bombay as a financial center, while the Trinidadian knew the city as the home of Sunil Gavaskar, the cricket legend.

Now, here is what was selling overseas:

# 1 Rules to Break and Laws to Follow - Denmark

# 2 Purpose - Bangladesh

# 3 How: Why We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business - United Kingdom

# 4 Smarts: Are We Hardwired for Success? - Mexico

# 5 Strengths Finder 2.0 - Australia

Implications of the Blogosphere
Posted June 27, 2007 11:21 a.m. by 800-ceo-read
In Book Reviews - 800 CEO Read Blog

Dov Seidman, who we mentioned earlier in the week, was the focus of Thomas Friedman's New York Times column today.

You need to subscribe to the New York Times online to view the article (a trial version is available), so those who have a subscription or want to get one can access the column here:

The Whole World is Watching

Here's a brief excerpt:

When everyone has a blog, a MySpace page or Facebook entry, everyone is a publisher. When everyone has a cellphone with a camera in it, everyone is a paparazzo. When everyone can upload video on YouTube, everyone is filmmaker. When everyone is a publisher, paparazzo or filmmaker, everyone else is a public figure. We're all public figures now. The blogosphere has made the global discussion so much richer -- and each of us so much more transparent.
The implications of all this are the subject of a new book by Dov Seidman, founder and C.E.O. of LRN, a business ethics company. His book is simply called "How." Because Seidman's simple thesis is that in this transparent world "how" you live your life and "how" you conduct your business matters more than ever, because so many people can now see into what you do and tell so many other people about it on their own without any editor. To win now, he argues, you have to turn these new conditions to your advantage.

And here's a link to the book: http://800ceoread.com/products/?ISBN=9780471751229

Meet the author (online)
Posted June 25, 2007 6:06 a.m. by 800-ceo-read
In Publishing Industry - 800 CEO Read Blog

Most authors have a web site and/or blog where they discuss their experiences writing and publishing the book, touring the country with it, and upcoming events. The author of How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything in Business (and in Life), Dov Seidman, invites you to visit his web site here:

http://www.howsmatter.com/