Its Not about the Coffee



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ISBN 9781591841920 Published Jan. 2008
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It's Not about the Coffee
Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks
By Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein 

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Portfolio's Year in Review
Posted March 5, 2009 8:46 a.m. by dylan
In Business Imprints - 800 CEO Read Blog

Picture%202.pngPortfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim posted a year in review from that house's perspective on Monday that stands out as a beacon of hope amidst all the publishing gloom of late. (As you all probably know, Portfolio is the publisher of The 100 Best.) Adrian sums up 2008 as follows:

Despite reduced store traffic through the year, Portfolio reported topline sales growth of 22% and gross margin growth of more than 50%. Nearly half of our new titles achieved margin target in the year of publication. We placed two books on the printed New York Times bestseller list, and several more on the extended Times list, the Wall Street Journal list, the BusinessWeek list, and other bestseller compilations.

I'm going to simply list the books Mr. Zackheim referenced among the highlights of last year, just to give you a sampling of Portfolio's outstanding 2008 catalog.

  • Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill) by David Cay Johnston

  • The Go-Giver: A Little Story About A Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann

  • The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam

  • The Ten Commandments for Business Failure by Donald Keough

  • The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David M. Smick

  • It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks by Howard Behar with Janet Goldstein

  • Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki

  • Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin

  • Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney

  • Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin,

  • Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui

    • If you'd like to know more about Portfolio's 2008 and what makes these titles such highlights, head on over to Adrian Zackheim's original post.

    We can only hope that The 100 Best helps make 2009 a repeat performance.



    April 2008 International Best Sellers
    Posted May 5, 2008 5:08 a.m. by delicious
    In Global Business - 800 CEO Read Blog

    Here are our TOP 10 business books that people across the world are reading:

    1) Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne - Malaysia

    2) Fire Them Up! by Carmine Gall - Norway

    3) One Billion Customers by James McGregor - Switzerland

    4) It's Not About the Coffee by Howard Behar - Canada

    5) Citizen Marketers by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba - United Kingdom

    6) Rules to Break and Laws to Follow by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, PhD - Singapore

    7) Leadership from the Inside Out by Kevin Cashman - The Netherlands

    8) Who's Your City? by Richard Floriday - Canada

    9) Payback by James P. Andrew and Harold L. Sirkin - Australia

    10) Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James Gilmore - United Kingdom




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