Groundswell



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ISBN 9781422125007 Published March 2008
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Groundswell
Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
By Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff 

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Amazon's Best of 2008
Posted Nov. 5, 2008 2:58 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

Amazon has posted its editors' picks for 2008. In the Business & Investing category, they chose:

  1. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam

  2. A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School Press (Jack Covert Selects)

  3. The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It by John Gerzema, Jossey-Bass

  4. The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth by J.C. Larreche, Wharton School Publishing

  5. The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects)

  6. The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life by Alexander Green, John Wiley & Sons

  7. The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By by Scott A. Shane, Yale University Press

  8. Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li, Harvard Business School Press

  9. The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite by Michael Port, John wiley & Sons

  10. Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects)

The Snowball was also #5 on the Biographies and Memoirs list, Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat & Crowded was #1 on the Audiobooks list, and The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow was #6 on the Science list.

Amazon did something rather interesting this year, releasing their "customer favorites," otherwise known as their best-sellers, alongside their editors' picks. The Business & Investing list was:

  1. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins (Jack Covert Selects)

  2. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam

  3. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds, New Riders Publishing

  4. Nudge; Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein, Yale University Press (Jack Covert Selects)

  5. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros, PublicAffairs

  6. Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books

  7. Bad Money: The Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips, Viking Press

  8. The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects)

  9. The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris, PublicAffairs

  10. Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier by Gary Harpst, Six Disciplines Publishing



    Bunches of Business Book Recommendations
    Posted Aug. 25, 2008 4:00 a.m. by todd-sattersten
    In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

    There has been quite a run in the blogosphere in the last two weeks with people recommending business books.

    Josh Kauffman may have started this tidal wave with his updated 2008 version of The Personal MBA. His list is 77 books long with the mantra "skip b-school and the $100,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books."

    BusinessPundit followed with their 25 Best Business Books Ever post, placing Adam Smith at #25 and In Search of Excellence at the top spot.

    For The Best Business Book of 2008 (so Far), Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog directs people to The Opposable Mind, Presentation Zen, Rain Making, Groundswell, Senior Leadership Teams and Brain Rules.

    And then people started finding old lists to highlight. A "Business Book" hit on tweetscan directed me to a October 2007 post at Newly Corporate titled "15 Books For Rogue Professionals and How To Read Them At No Cost." Their no-cost solution is the library, and they recommend everything from Carnegie to Chris Anderson to China Inc.

    This led me to another tweetscan hit where Melissa Woo, inspired by this post, spent the morning tweeting her favorites. As a fellow Milwaukeean, I thought I would list all of her favorites.






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