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How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

By Marc Levinson

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Inc. Magazine's 30th Anniversary Book Recommendations
Posted April 8, 2009 10:03 a.m. by todd-sattersten
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Inc. Magazine is celebrating 30 years of publication this month and as a part of their coverage have put together "The Business Owner's Bookshelf" - 30 books people running small businesses should read.

Here is the list in its entirety:

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter Bernstein (1996)

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, by Guy Kawasaki (2004)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson (2006)
Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, by Nancy F. Koehn (2001)
The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions, by Scott Adams (1996)
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber (1995)
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, by Peter Drucker (1967)
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Senge (1990)
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (1999)
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't, by Jim Collins (2001)
The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company, by Jack Stack (1992)
Growing a Business, by Paul Hawken (1987)
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston (2006)
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie (1936)
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Clayton Christensen (1997)
Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, by Thomas A. Stewart (1997)
The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham (2008)
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, by Yvon Chouinard (2005)
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Don't, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (2007)
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, by Michael Lewis (1999)
Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, by Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg (1996)
Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy (1983)
On Competition, by Michael Porter (2008)
Personal History, by Katharine Graham (1997)
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang (1997)
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham (2005)
Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder (1981)
The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith (1776)
What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business, by Joan Magretta and Nan Stone (2002)
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, by James Surowiecki (2004)

Jack and I think it is a pretty good list. Eleven of their 30 books match with selections from The 100 Best. The editors provide some big challenges for readers recommending The Wealth of Nations, On Competition, and The Fifth Discipline. Nuts! and Let My People Go Surfing are great for business owners (also check out Raising The Bar). And their fun add of The Dilbert Principle is a great one, showing us what to do by showing us what not to do.

Globle and Mail's Top Ten of 2006
Posted Dec. 18, 2006 3:22 a.m. by todd-sattersten
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A couple of blogging business book authors pointed to Harvey Schachter's list in Toronto's Globe and Mail. You'll find this list has more of a management focus.

Hard Facts Dangerous Half-Truths & Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton

Managing the Dynamics of Change by Jerald Jellison

The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld

Questions of Character by Joesph Badaracco

Leading Leaders by Jeswald Salacuse

Get Them on Your Side by Samuel Bacharach

Working With You is Killing Me by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster

Questions That Sell by Paul Sherry

A Leader's Legacy by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner

The Box by Marc Levinson

Honorable Mentions:

The Emperor Has No Hard Hat by Alan Quilley

Leading at a Higher Level by Ken Blanchard

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

Hit the Ground Running by Liz Cornish

Dish by Barbara Moses

Focus Like a Laser Beam by Lisa Haneberg

Leadership Can Be Taught by Sharon Daloz Parks and Ron Heifetz

BusinessWeek's Best Business Books of 2006
Posted Dec. 14, 2006 3:02 a.m. by todd-sattersten
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The December 18th issue of Business Week replaces their weekly book review with a year in review in business books. You can click-through for their commentary. Here is the list:

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller & the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson

Hershey: The Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio

Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw

The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi by Alexander Stille

Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American by Richard Tedlow

Innovation: The Five Disciplines for Creating What Customers Want by Curtis Carlson and William Wilmot

The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson

The Poker Face of Wall Street by Aaron Brown

Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, & Economics by Paul Ormerod

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael Mauboussin

Jack's Best Business Books of 2006
Posted Dec. 7, 2006 3:37 a.m. by jack
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It is that time of year. What are the bests of this year? As with all great awards, I am going to give you my short list of the best books of the year. Then, in a few weeks, I will announcewith a huge fanfaremy best business book of 2006. Yeah, I know, I have some non business books listed on my short list, but I liked the books and thought you should know about them. In no particular order:

China Shakes the World by James Kynge
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Chasing Daylight by Eugene OKelly
The Box by Marc Levinson
The Echoing Green: The Untold Story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca and the Shot Heard Round the World by Joshua Prager
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman

These are all great reads and worth being called out as extraordinary books. What are your "bests of" 2006?

Thanks for listening.

THE 2006 FINANCIAL TIMES AND GOLDMAN SACHS BOOK AWARD
Posted Sept. 18, 2006 1:03 p.m. by jack
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The shortlist for the 2006 FT/Goldman Sachs book award has been announced. Here are the award criteria:

THE MISSION

"To identify the book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues, including management, finance and economics."

What I personally like about the mission statement is the use of the word enjoyable That term is missing from far too many business books.

Here is the list in random order:

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson published by Hyperion

Review of The Long Tail by Steve Sherlock

David Thomson's Review of The Long Tail

Jack Covert Selects: The Long Tail

Catherine Doyle's Review of The Long Tail

BEA - Chris Anderson and The Long Tail

The Long Tail Videos

Kawasaki on The Long Tail

Small Giants by Bo Burlingham published by Portfolio

Bill and Bo on Small Giants