Most Recent Articles in Narrative & Biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
Time for Design
Book Review by Sally Haldorson
I've had a copy of Lee Devin and Robert D. Austin's book, The Soul of Design: Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products, on my desk since September. On it was a little sticky note that read, "blog," as a reminder to myself that I wanted to take a longer look when time allowed.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
Reinventing You
Book Review by Porchlight
“What do people think of you? What do they say when you leave the room? ” Maybe you don’t think you have a brand.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Jack Covert Selects - Creating Room to Read
By Sally Haldorson
Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy by John Wood, Viking Books, 320 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, February 2013, ISBN 9780670025985 Some of us have a hard time turning our desire to “do good” into real action, which is why the option to donate to foundations active in doing good is so beneficial. This same desire to do good is what makes reading John Wood’s new book, Creating Room to Read, energizing.
Categories: jack-covert-selects, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Elite Eight: Our Picks for the Top Business Books of 2012
By Sally Haldorson
In anticipation of announcing the winner of the 2012 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year tomorrow, here's a recap of the category winners. Click on the links below to read more about these top books of 2012. Which book is *your* pick for the top book of the year?
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
Startup Communities
Book Review by Porchlight
In the foreward to Brad Feld's most recent book, Startup Communities, Steve Case begins: During the past three decades, startups in the United States have created 40 million American jobs, all the net job creation in the country over that period. As we recover from a deep recession, our ability to innovate, build iconic companies, put people back to work, and inspire the world will once again be determined by whether entrepreneurs continue taking chances on a dream to start a business. This point demonstrates the importance of Startup Communities.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
Wild Company
By Porchlight
Experience is the best teacher. I learn with my hands. If you find yourself saying things like these, perhaps you'll find Mel and Patricia Ziegler's story about the birth of Banana Republic to be an interesting item.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / Staff Picks
KnowledgeBlocks
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
We're very pleased to announce the official opening of KnowledgeBlocks, a subscription-based service and online resource that gives readers access to quality content and business resources, a way to save, organize, and customize the information that is important to them, and engages business authors and thought leaders to help solve business problems and build new knowledge. Among the key features of the site, subscribers have access to the following: Explorations: Every month we publish three business book explorations that examine a narrow subject within a broader business topic. Each begins with a featured book and then branches out in unexpected directions, introducing you to author insights via podcast or interview, other related must-reads, curated links, and brief analyses that will help you build your business knowledge.
Categories: staff-picks, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
World Changers and Fortune
By 800-CEO-READ
John A. Byrne, former executive editor of BusinessWeek, editor in chief of Fast Company, and associate editor at Forbes, put out a great book in December with Portfolio called Game Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It. It's a really intriguing read, especially great for those who love biographies and personalities.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Milwaukee Leatherworker
By 800-CEO-READ
I don't have a book for you today, but a video. From Milwaukee filmmaker Brian Artka, it profiles David Mitchell, the owner of the Mitchell Leather Factory and retail shop on Water Street here in the Third Ward of Milwaukee—just a few blocks away from us. A part of downtown once known for its factories (the building we're in was once a hosiery manufacturer), David is the last representative of the neighborhood's manufacturing culture.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
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Blog / News & Opinion
LeaveSmarter: Carol Roth
By 800-CEO-READ
Business Strategist and Deal Maker Carol Roth visited Milwaukee last week for our LeaveSmarter series, sponsored by M&I Bank/BMO Financial Group, and Whyte Hirschboeck Dudek. For those unfamiliar with Carol's work, she comes from the investment banking industry, having raised over a billion dollars in venture capital, as well as completing multi-millions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions for her clients. Her philosophy is solid, but straight-truth, as she calls it, "Tough Love For Business.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography
