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Blog / Blog
800-CEO-READ Business Bestsellers for January 2018
By 800-CEO-READ
The bestselling business books at 800-CEO-READ for January 2018.
Categories: the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
The 2017 800-CEO-READ Business Books Awards and Industry Party
By Dylan Schleicher
Scenes from our time in New York City, hosting and honoring our friends and colleagues in the publishing industry.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Book Giveaways
Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us about Building Valuable Companies
By Porchlight
Derek Lidow's new book helps us understand that there is more than one way to build a business, and that the one most popularized in the press in probably the wrong way for you to go about it.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / Excerpts
Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World
By Dylan Schleicher
Ama and Stephanie Marston's new book is about the challenges we face as individuals, family members, leaders, and as a species, and the transformative resilience we need to use those challenges for change.
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / Editor's Choice
Herding Tigers: Be the Leader That Creative People Need
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Todd Henry's new book is about how to lead teams of creative people with structure and principles.
Categories: editors-choice
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Reading List of Tom Peters
By Dylan Schleicher
Tom Peters, the author most responsible for popularizing the business book genre, shares what he's reading these days.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
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Blog / Excerpts
Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches
By 800-CEO-READ
In this excerpt, brothers Courtney and Carter Reum discuss five critical factors are fueling the rapid scaling of consumer brands in today’s market
Categories: excerpts
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Blog / New Releases
The Right (and Wrong) Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade
By 800-CEO-READ
Carter Cast examines career derailment, advises on how to avoid it, and offers leaders and companies a look at how they can stop compounding the problem.
Categories: new-releases
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Blog / Book Giveaways
The 2017 Business Book of the Year: Janesville
By Porchlight
Amy Goldstein's book about the city of Janesville is a microcosmic illustration of a national experience.
Categories: giveaways
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Blog / News & Opinion
In Praise of Janesville: The 2017 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
By Sally Haldorson
Eminently accessible, instantly absorbable, Janesville is a story of economics lived. Of the decisions a monolithic company makes that results in economic devastation for a middle-American town, and the families that live there. A microcosmic illustration of a national experience, Janesville is about idealism and stubbornness and desperation and bravery. And we all can learn a lot about ourselves and our capacity for resilience from the children whose stories are at the heart of Janesville.
Categories: news-opinion, narrative-biography, publishing-industry, the-company
