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Posted July 16, 2009 5:01 a.m. by the-roy
In Global Business - 800 CEO Read Blog
Yes, Spring has come and gone and now the lazy days of summer lie ahead. For some anyway. While many go on vacation (perhaps to a Six Flags for a new coaster ride or two) others are still reading away during the hot months of the year. Here's what some people outside of the United States are taking to their air conditioned offices or to beach...
Germany - tops the listing in June with the book, Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity and Reap Big Results. It was published earlier this year and available in hardcover right now. It tells the reader why some leaders can lead while others fail. It's written by Morten Hansen and published by Harvard Business School Press
Switzerland - is next with the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. This is quite a popular book and if you haven't checked this book out yet, what are you waiting for? This title delves into marketing campaigns that have worked for companies and is a must for anyone in the marketing/sales area. Actually it's good for anyone trying to get inspiration. And if you don't want to take this to the water's edge - it's on CD format too! Oh, it's written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath and published by Random House.
United Kingdom - comes in third with No Man's Land: A Survival Manual for Growing Midsize Companies. The paperback edition was just released in January of this year and gives advice to companies that are in limbo (not too big or not too small). It's written by Doug Tatum and published by Portfolio.
China - is next up with the book Inside the Mind of the Shopper: The Science of Retailing. And, you may have guessed it, but it deals with the retail experience and how to understand the customer in various business transactions (What they're thinking, how they behave and how they can impact how business is conducted, etc). This is written by Herb Sorenson and Wharton School published it this May.
China is also responsible for our last entry in June's international best sellers with the book A Sense of Urgency. Global author John P. Kotter penned this little gem of how to take the first step in transforming your organization. He creates this 'sense of urgency' by getting the reader able to envision the need to shake things up. Put out by Harvard Business School Press in 2008 - it still is a much needed tool in these turbulent times.
There you have it, just a little sampling of what different individuals are stuffing into their briefcases or beach bags this summer. Maybe it's given you an idea of what you would like to read or learn more about. Maybe this has you realizing that you haven't done any reading this summer (shhh I won't tell).
Happy reading!
On this last day of 2008, here's the best of 2008.
Posted Dec. 31, 2008 4:22 a.m. by kate
In Book Reviews - 800 CEO Read Blog
With the end of the year comes reflection on the highs and lows. This week three more rankings of the best of business books were published. The lists of Gary H. Rawlins from USA Today, Richard Pachter from the Miami Herald, and the readers of ASTD.
From these three lists and the lists of days past (Todd's picks, our awards, Roxanne J. Coady's and Business Pundit's), these are the reigning and often appearing good reads of the business book section from 2008.
- The Game Changer by A. G. Lafley and Ram Charan
- A Sense of Urgency by John Kotter
- The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam
- The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Dan Pink, the first manga business book. You'll see more manga next year.
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- Art Kleiner's The Age of Heretics, a new edition and a complete history of business thinkers.
- Buying In by Rob Walker.
- Crowdsourcing (I interviewed Jeff earlier this year.)
- The Snowball on Warren Buffett's life.
What's on your list of best of from this year?
Happy New Year. Goodbye 2008. Welcome 2009.
The Best Books of 2008 - Business Pundit Edition
Posted Dec. 17, 2008 3:24 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
Business Pundit knows business books well, and has chosen the 10 from 2008 they think are the best. I think they have the right idea in describing the popular feelings of the year:
2008 came in two parts. Part I, which ran through Bear Stearns, carried the vestiges of prior years, when we thought we could get away with everything, never anticipating that in actuality, everything would get away from us. Some of the books on this list reflect that optimistic, braced mentality, when words like "social networking" still gave us more jitters than "401K."
The chosen 10 are:
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris, PublicAffairs Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe, Crown The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A. G. Lafley & Ram Charan, Random House (Jack Covert Selects) Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein, Yale University Press (Jack Covert Selects) Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins (Jack Covert Selects) The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects) A Sense of Urgency by John Kotter, Harvard Business School Press (Jack Covert Selects) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr, W.W. Norton The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam
No qualms with that list here. As you can see, half of them were Jack Covert Selects. And I think they're right in stating "If these books don't cover every event of the year, they certainly cover the thought processes that trace through it."
I would also recommend today's Business Pundit post on The Personal MBA. We've been big fans of the idea for some time, having published Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA Manifesto on ChangeThis in late 2005.
And, we've posted it before, but here is the link to Business Pundits 25 Best Business Books Ever.
The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Leadership
Posted Dec. 12, 2008 8:24 a.m. by 800-ceo-read
In Book Awards - 800 CEO Read Blog
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Leadership Category are:
This may be Seth Godin's most important book yet. It's human nature to want to be part of a group that shares a connection, passion and a common leader: a tribe. Technologies today have changed the make-up and creation of tribes, enabling them to communicate and grow in ways not possible in the past. In the future, tribes will lead revolutions and usher in change. All they need is the right leader. Will that be you? Our present is built on the ideas of our past. Consider this book a history lesson in the major business ideas from the last sixty years. What is now considered commonplace--business is personal, people can be trusted, that corporations might work to bring about change--was once considered heresy. We are living in The Age of Heretics. Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of strategy+business magazine, is our tour guide to this fascinating era. The first edition of The Age of Heretics was published in 1996. John Kotter is often considered the disciple of change. Complacency, he believes, is dangerous. He asked himself, What is the one reason most change initiatives fail? His answer: a lack of urgency. People regularly confuse urgency with busyness. They're not the same. Urgency moves people to action. Here's how to instill a sense of urgency in the people you lead. Trust and transparency are intertwined. Without one, the other cannot be. Without both, an organization cannot be successful. In three essays, Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman and James O'Toole each look at different aspects of transparency and suggest constructive ways to build a culture of openness.
If you follow business books, you no doubt know that The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs award one book each year The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. What you may have escaped your business book radar is The Financial Times Management Blog and their picks of the 2008 crop. Most of the books that made the FT/Goldman Sachs shortlist made this list as well (I'll point them out below), the sole exception being William J. Bernstein's A Splendid Exchange. (Quick note: The FT.com Management Blog is based in the UK, and some of the books' publishers and subtitles are different than they are here in the States. I've gone with the US information below. If you're reading this overseas and need the UK information, head on over to the original post.) Without further ado, the list is:
by Seth Godin (Portfolio, October 2008)
by Art Kleiner (Jossey-Bass, July 2008
by John Kotter (Harvard Business Press, September 2008)
by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman & James O'Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman (Jossey-Bass, May 2008)
Best Books of 2008 From the FT Management Blog
Posted Dec. 3, 2008 3:48 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
One more book was good enough to stop press, being added after the initial post. That book was Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott, published by McGraw-Hill.
