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Hardcover
224 pages
ISBN 9781591397588 Published Dec. 2005
Harvard Business School Press
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Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators
From Idea to Execution
By Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble 

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The Thinkers50
Posted Nov. 21, 2011 2:41 p.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

Congratulations are in order for friend of the company Marshall Goldsmith, one of the really good guys in this business, on winning the 2011 Thinkers50 Leadership Award as the World’s Most-Influential Leadership Thinker.

Now sponsored by the Harvard Business Review, The Thinkers50 is a decade-old, biannual global ranking of management thinkers that uses ten criteria to rank thinkers: originality of ideas; practicality of ideas; presentation style; written communication; loyalty of followers; business sense; international outlook; rigor of research; impact of ideas and the elusive guru factor. Goldsmith has all of those qualities in spades, ranked number seven on the overall Thinkers50 list and was certainly deserving of the award in Leadership he took home.

Business Book Readers will know Marshall from his excellent and highly influential books, most recently What Got You Here Won't Get You There and MOJO. Friends and followers of the company might remember him from the LeaveSmarter event we held with him here in Milwaukee last year (you can find a video excerpt from that event at the end of this post).

Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution and, this year, The Innovator's DNA won the award in Innovaton and was number one in the overall rankings.

And there are other categories and awards in the Thinkers50 as well, including the Thinkers50 Book Award, which Pankaj Ghemawat won for his new book World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It, in which he rejects "flat world" view of the global economy and offer a more nuanced, semi-globalized view.

Other Think50 2011 category winners include:

For a complete list of this year's Thinkers50 and where they all rank, a lot of great video with those who made the list and everyone who made the shortlist for the awards, head on over to Thinkers50.com.



New Excerpt - The Quest for Global Domination
Posted April 15, 2008 10:06 a.m. by 800-ceo-read
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

You find Chapter 1 of the 2nd Edition of The Quest for Global Dominance over on our excerpts blog. Even if you've read the first edition, you may want to consider updating your thinking on the global economy with this new offering which includes three new chapters: Lessons from the Globalization of Wal-Mart; Globalizing the Young Venture; and Leveraging China and India for Global Dominance. Jeffrey E. Garten, former dean of the Yale School of Management (among many other things) writes in the forward that:

The Quest for Global Dominance remains the best by far in its arena--The most comprehensive, the most insightful, the most readable, and simply the most important in the growing genre of what companies need to know as they expand their international horizons.

You may recognize co-author Vijay Govindarajan as the co-author of Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution, which regularly shows up on our bestseller lists.



Canada Tops the List this Month!
Posted April 3, 2008 5:12 a.m. by delicious
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog

Here's what 800-CEO-READ shipped to other countries in March. Here's what they're reading overseas. :

The Big Switch - Quebec, Canada

Purpose - Besiktas, Istanbul

The Quest for Global Dominance: 2nd Edition - Shanghai, China

Get Out of Your Own Way - Frankfort, Germany

Who's Your City? - Hamburg, Germany

Strengths Finder 2.0 - Strattford-Upon-Avon, Great Britian

Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators - Florence, Italy

Senior Leadership Teams - Lisboa, Portugal

Forces for Good - Toronto, Canada

Hug Your People - London, Great Britain

This past month, we've seen more books then ever going to many different places, unlike previous times when just one book may have been ordered for businesses in different countries. American business books are getting more popular in other parts of the world. If you haven't ordered these titles yet, you may want to - just to see what could be interesting to companies in these other countries....



2006 Bestsellers (a little late)
Posted March 27, 2007 9:33 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Some folks started asking us for the 2006 bestsellers. Some how we forgot to do this right after the New Year, and I know many of you are dying to hear the results.

One note on methodology: We award points to a book's position on our monthly list, as well as the number of months it appears on our lists.

Without further ado...

800-CEO-READ's 2006 Best-Selling Books

  1. It's Your Ship by Michael Abrashoff (Warner Business)

  2. The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press)

  3. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne (Harvard Business School Press)

  4. Dealing With Darwin by Geoffrey Moore (Portfolio)

  5. The Ice Cream Maker by Subir Chowdhury (Currency)

  6. Blueprint To A Billion by David Thomson (Wiley)

  7. I've Seen A Lot Of Famous People Naked, And They've Got Nothing On You! by Jake Steinfeld (AMACOM)

  8. If Harry Potter Ran General Electric by Tom Morris (Currency)

  9. One Billion Customers by James MacGregor (Free Press)

  10. Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble (Harvard Business School Press)

  11. Satisfaction by Chris Denove and James D. Power IV (Portfolio)

  12. Treasure Hunt by Michael Silverstein and John Butman (Portfolio)

  13. Redefining Healthcare by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Harvard Business School Press)

  14. The Power to Predict by Vivek Ranadive (McGraw-Hill)

  15. The Millionaire Real Estate Mindset by Russ Whitney (Currency)

  16. More Than 85 Broads by Janet Hanson (McGraw-Hill)

  17. Don't Retire, Rewire by Jeri Sedlar and Rick Miners (Alpha Books)

  18. Make Money, Not Excuses by Jeam Chatzky (Crown)

  19. Inside Every Woman by Vickie Milazzo (Wiley)

  20. The Cycle of Leadership by Noel Tichy with Nancy Cardwell (Collins)

  21. The Big Moo by The Group of 33, edited by Seth Godin (Portfolio)

  22. Small Is The New Big by Seth Godin (Portfolio)

  23. The Long Tail by Chris Anderson (Hyperion)

  24. Breaking The Bamboo Ceiling by Jane Hyun (Collins)

  25. Seven Secrets of Great Entrepreneurial Masters by Allen Fishman (McGraw-Hill)



Strategy+Business Best Business Books of 2006
Posted Dec. 20, 2006 3:28 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Strategy+Business has published their Best Business Books: 2006. This list is one I look forward to each year (they are on their sixth). The books they choose require a deeper mediation on the study of management and the issues that face business. The feature is divided into 11 topics and each topic is accompanied by an essay.

I encourage you to read the essays. The magazine has recruited a great set of writers which include Howard Rheingold, Nikos Mourkogiannis, and James O'Toole. Each essay provides context for the book selections within the area of study. This year's list also includes a couple of special topics including The Business of Defense and Fiction (as inspired by business). The topic headings will take you to the essays and a starred (*) book means it was chosen as the best book in the category.

The Future by Howard Rheingold

Economics by Michael Schrage

Marketing by Nick Wreden

Media by Neil Minow

Negotiation by Nikos Mourkogiannis

Strategy by Chuck Lucier and Jan Dyer

Governance by Michelle Leder

Management by David Hurst

The Business of Defense by Dov S. Zakheim

Fiction by Jonathan Weber

Leadership by James O'Toole