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ISBN 9781400046836 Published July 2003
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Posted Dec. 7, 2004 3:04 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog
I picked up a copy of the new Worthwhile magazine. Multiple bloggers (Curt and Halley) associated with the magazine report that sales are very good on the permiere issue . My personal effort to get a copy required calls to three bookstores in the Milwaukee area.
There are a number of business book references I wanted to point out.
- In her opening letter from the editors, Anita Sharpe says some of the best advice she ever got was from Not Fade Away by Peter Barton with Laurence Shames. One of the quotes is "If you work for fun, money will come. If you set out to work for money alone, enjoyment is not likely a part of the equation."
- Anita lists her favorite business book as The Republic of Tea by Mel Ziegler, Bill Rosenzweig, and Patricia Ziegler [out of print]
- There is an article based on the book Saving the Corporate Soul (& Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own by David Batstone.
- Halley Suitt interviews three well-known bloggers:
- Dan Gillmor's closest biz book recommendation is his desire to read Chernow's Alexander Hamilton
- Brad Feld tells folks to read The MouseDriver Chronicles: True Life Adventures of Two First-Time Entreprenuers by John Lusk and Kyle Harrison. He also says to read Flow by Csikszentmihalyi ("the original philosophy of optimal experience").
- John Porcaro lists all sorts of biz books - Re-Imagine, 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers, Love is the Killer App, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Execution, Follow This Path, and Primal Leadership.
- There is a one pager with Tom Peters and an excerpt from Project04: Snapshots of Excellence in Unstable Times (see Brand Autopsy's post on P04).
- Finally, they run an excerpt from Business Evolves, Leadership Endures by Andrea Redmond, Charles Tribbett III, and Bruce Kasanoff
Jack Covert Selects - Love is the Killer App
Posted Feb. 3, 2002 8:40 a.m. by katie
Love is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders, Crown Business, 200 Pages, $21.00 Hardcover, January 2002, ISBN 060960922X
When I received this galley about six months ago, I was wary of the book because of the hip cover, zippy title, brief length, and its all-about-success-but-not-failure premise. Every time I cracked the cover, I found myself questioning Sanders premise. I saddled right up to the thought that love really is the killer app. Cool. But this warm-fuzzy contradicted the very 80s power-broker subtitle. The author challenged me to read the book with an open mind (and with a steak dinner as the reward if I read the book and truly didnt find it of any value). So, I gave it a chance and discovered that what Sanders has to say is very valuable.
One of the most personally important books I have read in the past couple of years (look at our websites JCS archives to read my review) is called, Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks. The author, Baker, talks about networking, personal investment, kindness but with a more academic flair. As I said in my review about Bakers book: Focusing on helping others without expectation of any return brings more to you than if you focused on quid pro quo. I love that idea. Karma lives. Sanders expounds upon this idea. Focusing on helping others without expectation of any return helps you more than you can imagine. I think the section on sharing compassion is spot on, as well as the message that you dont need to tear people down to rise up. Despite my initial misgivings, I have found this book not only valuable, but a contemporary 7 Habits. No steak dinner for me.
