Wikinomics



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Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
By Don Tapscott, Anthony D Williams 

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800-CEO-READ 2007 Best Sellers
Posted Feb. 5, 2008 2:12 a.m. by kate
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Below you'll find the list of our top 25 bestsellers for 2007. Congratulations and thanks to everyone on the list!

  1. The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
    by Stephen M.R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill; Free Press.


    Leadership expert Stephen Covey uncovers why trust is vital in professional and personal relationships.

  2. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
    by Bill George and Peter Sims; Jossey-Bass.


    Former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of 125 outstanding leaders of today and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader.

  3. It's Your Ship
    by D. Michael Abrashoff; Warner Business Books.

    Business managers will benefit from Abrashoff's guiding belief that focus should be on empowering your people rather than on chain of command.

  4. Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth
    by David Thomson; John Wiley & Sons.

    Follow this blueprint to turn your idea into the next multi-billion dollar company.

  5. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
    by Chip Heath, Dan Heath; Random House.

    The brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier.

  6. Unlock Behavior, Unleash Profits: Developing Leadership Behavior That Drives Profitability in Your Organization
    by Leslie Wilk Braksick; McGraw-Hill.

    Fortune 500 thought leader Leslie Braksick provides powerful tools to help you, whether you're an executive, entrepreneur, or manager, in any field, to unlock behavior and unleash unprecedented profits.

  7. Citizen Marketers: When People Are the Message
    by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba; Kaplan.

    A provocative new exploration of the ramifications of today's burgeoning social media.

  8. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
    by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter; Hyperion.

    One of the nation's most sought-after executive coaches shows how subtle changes can make all the difference when climbing those last few rungs of the corporate ladder.

  9. The Power of Nice
    by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval; Currency.

    In business, nice guys (and gals) really do finish first.

  10. Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now
    by Vickie L. Milazzo; John Wiley & Sons.

    Discover and use your strengths to pursue your dreams.

  11. The Long Tail
    by Chris Anderson; Hyperion.

    The Long Tail was coined by Chris Anderson to describe the recent development of endless niche markets.

  12. Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace With Today's Nontraditional Workforce
    by Cathleen Benko, Anne Weisberg; Harvard Business School Press.

    This book is centered on the powerful insight that career options in today’s economy need to accommodate the rising and falling phases of employee engagement as it changes over time.

  13. The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating a Cash Machine for Life
    by Loral Langemeier; McGraw-Hill.

    Whether you want to partner with others or create your own team to start, fix, or buy a business, Langemeier shows you how to turn it into a Cash Machine that makes money from Day One.

  14. The Flip Side: Break Free of the Behaviors That Hold You Back
    by Flip Flippen; Springboard Press.

    Flippen presents a simple process for learning how to identify our personal constraints and take the necessary steps to correct self-limiting behaviors. He shows that we will experience a dramatic surge in productivity, achieve things we have only dreamed of, and find greater happiness overall.

  15. Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough: Reinventing The Customer Experience
    by Jonathan M. Tisch, Karl Weber; Wiley.

    Chocolates on the Pillow Aren't Enough will show you how to improve every customer touch point; understand what customers really want and need; and design organizational structures to meet those needs.

  16. Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation
    by James P. Andrew, Harold L. Sirkin, John Butman; Harvard Business School Press.

    Payback offers a new way to think about and manage innovation.

  17. Finding the Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the Hot Stocks of Tomorrow
    by Michael Moe; Portfolio.

    Learn how winners like Dell, eBay, and Home Depot could have been spotted in their start-up phase and how you can find Wall Street’s future giants.

  18. The Strategy Paradox: Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)
    by Michael E. Raynor; Currency.

    Raynor sheds light on the collision between commitment and uncertainty that many managers face in the pursuit for success. He presents a concrete framework for strategic action that allows companies to seize today’s opportunities while preparing for an uncertain future.

  19. The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
    by Tommy Newberry; Tyndale House Publishers.

    Whether you are at a low point or a high point in your life, the authors assert that The 4:8 Principle can help you experience joy by design--God's design.

  20. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
    by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne; Harvard Business School Press.

    The authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors, but from creating blue oceans--untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

  21. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
    by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams; Portfolio.

    Smart firms can harness the collective capability and genius of online communities to spur innovation, growth, and success.

  22. StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths
    by Tom Rath; Gallup Press.

    This strengths reference, accompanied by a code for an online assessment test, is an extension of the original StrengthsFinder, now updated with a customized version of your top 5 strengths and a guide for applying your strengths in the world.

  23. QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life
    by John G. Miller; Putnam Publishing Group.

    QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, already a phenomenon in its self-published edition, addresses the most important issue in business and society today: personal accountability.

  24. I Didn't See it Coming: The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business
    by Nancy C. Widmann, Elaine J. Eisenman, Amy Dorn Kopelan; Wiley.

    The authors provide critical counsel and keen observation on how all employees can develop strategic insights, effective tools, and sharp instincts for reading the room and controlling their own career destiny.

  25. The Starbucks Experience
    by Joseph Michelli; McGraw-Hill.

    Michelli reveals how you can follow the Starbucks way to...reach out to entire communities, listen to individual workers and consumers, seize growth opportunities in every market, and custom-design a truly satisfying experience that benefits everyone involved.

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If you'd like a PDF of our 2007 bestseller list, click here. If you're interested, we publish a monthly bestseller list here.



Five Books from 2007: Wikinomics, Halo Effect, Firing Back, one on Starbucks and a Fable.
Posted Dec. 26, 2007 5:42 a.m. by kate
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Carol Hymowitz over at the WSJ shared her list of business books for holiday reading (you may need to log in). On it, were these books:

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams.

This is what we've all been talking about in the past few years and even more so since the rise of Wikipedia. What's the future of mass collaboration and how is it changing what we do? Here's an introduction to our new wiki-ed world. For more, join Don, Anthony and friends over at their blog.

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The Halo Effect ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers by Phil Rosenzweig.

One controversial title of the year as Phil debates the merits of many well-known business titles: Good to Great and In Search of Excellence. As Carol explains, "The Halo Effect is for executives who aren't looking for a quick-fix prescription and who understand that winning depends on knowing one's own company and on executing smart decisions well -- with a little

luck mixed in." For the record, Tom Ehrenfeld highly recommends checking it out. And, a link to Phil's blog plus a ChangeThis manifesto Phil wrote.

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The Three Signs of a Miserable Job by Patrick Lencioni.

Here's a good airplane read and another of the Lencioni fables. The three signs of a miserable job: irrelevance, immeasurability, and anonymity. Even if you're not a friend of fables, check out the back portion for the guts of the book.

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Firing Back -- How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward.

The title is self-explanatory. How do you get back up and revamp your career? By the way, Jeffrey was recently in a Fortune article.

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How Starbucks Saved My Life by Michael Gates Gill

This past fall, Michael visited us in Milwaukee. Jon had a chance to interview him. This is Michael's story of how he went from having everything to working at Starbucks -- quite a humbling experience.



Love the lists
Posted Dec. 19, 2007 1:36 a.m. by kate
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog

Gotta love this time of year. Lots of lists. As is true in business book publishing. Let me catch you up on the last few weeks of lists. This week we announced the semifinalists for our first ever 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. There are the best books according to the Amazon editors. And BusinessWeek's choice picks. Books written by Economist writers.

And, now we have the best books as chosen by the Economist. You'll find a number of duplicate titles on the various lists. The business titles from the Economist lists are:

Find the entire list here.

*Starred books are in the running for our 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards which will be announced on January 15th.



Another List
Posted Dec. 13, 2007 9:36 a.m. by dylan
In Uncategorized - 800 CEO Read Blog

Rebecca pointed us all to Amazon's Best Books of 2007 last month, and in light of all the other lists coming out lately, I thought it'd be a good idea to revisit that list and highlight the business titles on it. There were three business categories--Business, Business Narratives, and Finance & Investing. So without further ado, the choice of Amazon's editors were...

Business:

*1-The Future of Management by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen

*2-Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip & Dan Heath

*3-The Leadership Challenge (4th Edition) by James M. Kouzes

*4-The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun

*5-Off-ramps and On-ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett

*6-We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business by Barry Libert & John Spector

*7-The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees) by Patrick M. Lencioni

*8-Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't by Ram Charan

*9-Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want by James H. Gilmore & Joseph B Pine II

*10-Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose by

Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe & Jag Sheth

Business Narratives:

*1-The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan

*2-The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. by William D. Cohan

*3-The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

*4-The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

*5-A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark

*6-Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich by Robert Frank

*7-Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

*8-Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston

*9-The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

*10-All the Money in the World: How the Forbes 400 Make--and Spend--Their Fortunes by Peter W. Bernstein & Annalyn Swan

Finance & Investing:

*1-The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle

*2-Invest Like a Shark: How a Deaf Guy with No Job and Limited Capital Made a Fortune Investing in the Stock Market by James "RevShark" DePorre

*3-Wise Investing Made Simple: Larry Swedroe's Tales to Enrich Your Future by Larry Swedroe

*4-Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig

*5-Hedge Hunters: Hedge Fund Masters on the Rewards, the Risk, and the Reckoning by Katherine Burton

*6-Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics by William Bonner & Lila Rajiva

*7-Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth by Hildy Richelson & Stan Richelson

*8-Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse by Peter D. Schiff with John Downes

*9-A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber

*10-The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles

Wikinomics also made the list in the Computers & Internet category, as did David Weinberger's excellent book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. The Age of Turbulence and The Shock Doctrine made the list in multiple categories, both making the Current Events list and The Age of Turbulence making the Memoirs list as well. The Black Swan also got the nod in Nonfiction.

And don't forget to check back Monday to see who made the shortlist for our first annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards.



Let's Take a Holiday
Posted Dec. 10, 2007 3:25 a.m. by delicious
In International Bestsellers - 800 CEO Read Blog

So, there I was waiting patiently in line to go through the first of 3 security checkpoints at the airport. It was the first time I was traveling overseas with my mom, which I may not do again, but that's only because I lost her during the trip to Mexico. It turns out she was just getting a tattoo, but I digress.

Anyway, I was doing the 'patiently waiting' thing and all....kind of looking forward to be getting pulled aside and asked all 'those questions'. You know the ones, like why are you going here in this country and what not. I wanted to feel like a James Bond villain. I wanted to be That Guy that everyone sees that gets pulled out of the line and forced to go through various searches: body, luggage and then maybe brought in to a separate room for further dialysis. There would be search dogs and maybe even extra guards.

There was nothing, not even a raised eyebrow.

Alright, I know I'm being odd, but I did expect something. You see, I just recently broke my wrist, had metal put in to keep the bones together and the doctor said that the security alarms would go off at the airport. And when it didn't I was saddened. Made me think though. Like why didn't it? Are they doing their job right? If they're not catching me and my gimpy wrist, what else are they missing?

They are probably missing what books people were reading last month overseas and/or across the borders from us. Here they are:

3-D Negotiation - Australia

Wikinomics - Canada

The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy - France

The Starbucks Experience - Barbados

The Three Tensions - Mexico

Oh, and if you're going anywhere this holiday season, I hope you make it through it safely! And try not to lose your mother, if she goes with you!






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