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Posted March 5, 2009 8:46 a.m. by dylan
In Business Imprints - 800 CEO Read Blog
Portfolio 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:
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.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.
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.
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
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:
- When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian, McGraw-Hill (The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year)
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, Yale University Press (Jack Covert Selects)
- The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford, Random House (Jack Covert Selects)
- A Sense of Urgency by John Kotter, Harvard Business Press (Jack Covert Selects)
- McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny, Knopf (FT/Goldman Sachs runner up)
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam (FT/Goldman Sachs runner up)
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown & Company
- The Last Amateurs: To Hell and Back with the Cambridge Boat Race Crew by Mark de Rond (So far as I can tell, this has not been released in the States, but we do have our own, unrelated Last Amateurs about NCAA basketball)
- Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry by Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey, Little Brown Book Group UK (FT/Goldman Sachs runner up - not yet available in the US)
- Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig, The Penguin Press (FT/Goldman Sachs runner up)
- Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School by Philip Delves Broughton, The Penguin Press
- The Ten Commandments of Business Failure by Don Keough, Portfolio
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.
** Contest Alert **Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Posted Aug. 13, 2008 4:02 a.m. by delicious
In Big Ideas - 800 CEO Read Blog
** UPDATE ** CONTEST HAS ENDED! CONGRATULATIONS, ROB M. FROM UTAH - - YOU WON THE BOOK AND CD SET!!!
Yep! It's one of those things where "something came across my desk today". Well, today it was both the book and audio versions of Ten Commandments for Business Failure. Since I'm kind of a trivia geek and general dork - I'm going to offer a package deal of both items for FREE - - - If someone can offer me some information about the audio version of the book that is "a lighthearted cautionary bible for business leaders from a widely admired elder statesman who is sought out for advice by a wide circle of business luminaries".
I'm not going to make it hard and make people tell me all Donald Keough's ten commandments - so, here you go...Ready?
Name the narrator of the audio version of Ten Commandments for Business Failure and what was ONE television show he appeared in.
Not too hard right? The first person to e-mail me the correct answer at roy@800ceoread.com will get the FREE copies!! I'm looking forward to your responses! Have a GREAT Hump Day, all!
** NOTE ** - the contest is only good for today.... Good Luck!
