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Posted Dec. 4, 2008 5:07 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog
Always anticipated, strategy + business has published their Best Business Books 2008. What makes this list special is that they assign each category to an expert in that field for review, and each reviewer delivers a lengthy and in depth essay on the books chosen. I've linked each category to it's reviewer's essay at the top of each section. The books starred are those selected as the category's best, what is referred to as s+b's top shelf.
Strategy: Fast Competition and Flat Denial by Phil Rosenzweig
- *The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves by William P. Barnett, Princeton University Press
- Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics Giants' Battle for Global Supremacy by Sea-Jin Chang, Wile
- Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter by Pankaj Ghemawat, Harvard Business School Press
- Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller by Steve Weinberg, W.W. Norton
- *Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times by Willie Brown, Simon & Schuster
- The Bush Tragedy by Jacob Weisberg, Random House
- Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History by Ted Sorensen, HarperCollins
- *Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, Harvard Business Press
- Always On: Advertising, Marketing, and Media in an Era of Consumer Control by Christopher Vollmer, with Geoffrey Precourt, McGraw-Hill
- Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion by Lucas Conley, PublicAffairs
- *White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters` by Robert Schlesinger, Simon & Schuster
- Jacked Up: The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the World's Greatest Company by Bill Lane, McGraw-Hill
- Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation by Gina C. O'Connor, Richard Leifer, Albert S. Paulson & Lois S. Peters, Jossey-Bass
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (Updated & Expanded) by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams, Portfolio
- Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk by James Bessen & Michael J. Meurer, Princeton University Press
- *Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back by John Kao, Free Press
- *The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East by Kishore Mahbubani, PublicAffairs
- Operation China: From Strategy to Execution by Jimmy Hexter & Jonathan Woetzel, Harvard Business School Press
- The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney, Penguin Press (Jack Covert Selects)
- A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty by Peter Cappelli, Harvard Business Press
- Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage by Edward E. Lawler III, Jossey-Bass
- *Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, McGraw-Hill
- Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-line Employee by Alex Frankel, HarperCollins
- The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World by John Elkington & Pamela Hartigan, Harvard Business Press
- The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Stephen A. Marglin, Harvard University Press
- *Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus, PublicAffairs (Jack Covert Selects)
- Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block, Berrett-Koehler
- Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS by Greg Niemann, Wiley
- The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America's Most Troubled Companies by Steve Miller, Collins
- Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference--The Revolutionary Old-school Approach by James M. Kilts, with John F. Manfredi & Robert L. Lorber, Crown Business
- *Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson, Kogan Page
- *Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles Handy, AMACOM (Jack Covert Selects)
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett, Yale University Press
- From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession by Rakesh Khurana, Princeton University Press
- Minding the Store: Great Writing about Business from Tolstoy to Now edited by Robert Coles & Albert LaFarge, The New Press
We've been following this list since 2003. The previous years' lists are below.
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
July's International Best Sellers
Posted Aug. 6, 2008 6:08 a.m. by delicious
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog
The world is getting smaller and smaller and more businesses are going to other countries. Different ideas are being talked about via conference calls, cell phones, emails and yes, books. Here are what people across the time zones of the world were reading from 800-CEO-READ last month:
Thoughts of Friends
Posted Jan. 2, 2008 6:15 a.m. by delicious
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog
Seeing old friends during the holiday season always seems to encourage some reflecting. One thing that I personally thought about were the friends that no longer live close to me anymore. This past year, I made my usual pilgrimage to Hoboken, New Jersey where they moved to. Which is great because I get to stay near Manhattan with great pals, who could ask for more?
I have been visiting the New York City area on a fairly regular basis since 1989 and have done many things there. For instance, I have been to the cupcake place, the Strand, MOMA, the obligatory Broadway shows and all the usual touristy haunts from the start, or so I thought. What I did forget to do was the U.N. building. How could I have been so blind as to miss one of the most important touristy things to do in NYC?!?!
I was ashamed. Mortified. Taken aback, even!
After walking the Brooklyn Bridge (yes, I did not do that before, either) and right before getting a margarita at the pier (yes, I HAVE done that before), I urged my hosts to get me to the U.N., and found out that even they have not been there either. I felt I had done my little part to get us more educated. Then I wondered, when I saw the huge building and walked inside to see the many conference and meeting rooms, "Why haven't I ever wanted to see this before?" Not only is the U.N. one of the most important institutions in the world, but you get to see all sorts of cultures represented by their art, flags and photographs throughout its halls and rooms. If you get a chance to do so, get thee to the U.N.! You'll be amazed!! Oh, and the scenery from behind the building is just as spectacular!
By the way, be it NYC or any city, do try and plan to get back there at least one more time, you will be surprised by what you miss the first time. Which brings be to the point of this...here's what other people around the world are reading this past December:
Redefining Global Strategy - Spain
Strategic Intuition - Mexico
Boston Consulting Group on Strategy - Germany
CEO Within - Sweden
Sketching User Experiences - Mexico
OH and while I'm at it - here's the TOP 10 Books Sold Internationally in 2007!:
Green to Gold - Switzerland
Whole New Mind - Brussels
Redefining Global Strategy - Spain
Life After the 30-Second Spot - Mexico
Blue Ocean Strategy - France
Boston Consulting Group on Strategy - Poland
End of Poverty - United Arab Emiratis
Riding the Blue Train - United Kingdom
Treasure Hunt - Germany
True North - Switzerland
Happy 2008 Everyone!!
Doing Business in Mexico
Posted Nov. 20, 2007 9:17 a.m. by delicious
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog
Earlier this month, I noticed a trend in 800-CEO-READ and global business. Just this week, a major U.S. corporation is sending out to their Mexico based offices a book called Redefining Global Strategy.
More and more American businesses are going global and vice versa. To me, it's interesting to learn what businesses are reading about us and taking back to their companies, employees and even their clients about not only what we think about doing business internationally, but how they can do business with us. In a world that is constantly getting intimate and we find other countries companies and cultures very different from what we are used to. So, it is kind of reassuring that one thing hasn't changed: getting knowledge. Learning from others through conversations and the media. On a personal note I'm kind of glad that there are both books about how we can all do business together and people that actively search out for this knowledge.
Some of the top business books 800CEOREAD sent out overseas in October:
Riding the Blue Train - Australia
Hostage at the Table - Switzerland
Kiss Theory Good Bye - Canada
The Point of the Deal - United Kingdom
Influencer: Mastering the Power to Change Anything - Germany
ChangeThis
Posted Nov. 8, 2007 5:38 a.m. by dylan
In ChangeThis - 800 CEO Read Blog
The latest issue of ChageThis has been put up. It includes manifestos from the authors of Forces for Good and Zoom along with four other very solid pieces. We'll be putting out another issue of two manifestos sometime this month as well. The issue will be a kind of point-counterpoint. Both manifestos discuss strategies for doing business globally, but disagree on just how "flat" the world really is, which obviously affects those strategies. One of the manifestos will be by Pankaj Ghemawat, the author of Redefining Global Strategy, and the youngest professor ever tenured at Harvard Business School. Certainly something to look forward to. As for the current issue, I've put our editor Sally Haldorson's descriptions below.
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ChangeThis Newsletter No. 40
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40.01
Change the Way You Change the World
By Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant
Using Habitat for Humanity as a dynamic example, authors of Forces for Good, Crutchfield and Grant, present this manifesto on what high-impact nonprofits do to achieve wide-scale social change. These methods are insightful for all organizations, including for-profits and individuals. You may just want to pick up a hammer and take a swing at changing the world.
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40.02
By Patricia Martin
Patricia Martin brings her energy and enthusiasm to this inspiring manifesto which celebrates a new cultural trend: a renaissance generation that values creative and intellectual activity which will bring a rebirth to our current beige state of living.
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40.03
The Energy Crossroads: Zoom
By Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Vaitheeswaran, author of Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future, here asserts that within “the thorny geopolitical, environmental, and economic complications involved with cars and oil, America’s federal energy policies do matter.” He calls for a “market-minded” approach that offers a level playing field for entrepreneurs and innovators instead of the conventional and archaic.
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40.04
Build Your Brand in Bits and Bites: Building Your Personal Brand Online
By William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson
Arruda and Dixson warn: “You are being googled.”
Internet research is now a no-brainer in the hiring process, whether you are applying for a job or pitching your bid. So, how can you impress recruiters and clients when they perform this kind of reference check? The authors offer steps to making you digitally distinctive.
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40.05
The New Theory of Relativity: Relationships = Productivity
By Noah Blumenthal
Blumenthal believes there is simply no stronger motivation for good performance than strong relationships and hopes to revolutionize leadership with a deceptively simple
equation: Relationships = Productivity. He warns of an epidemic of “ineptivity” (motion without reason) has lead to a state of disenfranchisement within business, and a good leader who attends to people’s needs can prevent mutiny.
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40.06
Slow Innovation: A Savour-y Way to Success
By Derek Cheshire
Using the Slow Food Movement as a metaphor, Derek Cheshire suggests a slow approach to innovation. There is immense pressure to innovate quickly or to rush to market, but does this bargain of speed versus quality really benefit a company? He lauds the goal of creating “an innovative company whose structure and culture are conducive to
long-term growth and sustainability.”
