Most Recent Articles
-
Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: The Economy Survey
By 800-CEO-READ
In November of last year, we sent out a survey to gauge the mood of ChangeThis readers and see if they could help provide some solutions and encouragement for ourselves and eachother. After many months of immense change, both in the country as a whole and within our small company, we have finally finished sifting through those responses. We made the following three inquiries: "In one word, sum up how you feel right now;" "How is this affecting you?
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / News & Opinion
February's International Best Sellers
By 800-CEO-READ
In our effort to keep everyone all over the world a mouse click away from each other. . .
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / ChangeThis
The Economy Survey
By ChangeThis Readers
In November of last year, we sent out a survey to gauge the mood of ChangeThis readers and see if you could help provide some solutions and encouragement for ourselves and eachother. After many months of immense change, both in the country as a whole and within our small company, we have finally finished sifting through those responses. We made the following three inquiries: "In one word, sum up how you feel right now;"How is this affecting you. " and; "What are you choosing to do about it. " The 1400 replies we received to this survey are further proof, beyond the intuitive, that work is life and that the personal is the professional. Some people used creative metaphors to express their situations. Others used humor. Some enumerated their action plan. Some ranted. Some marveled. Some refused to accept a doom and gloom outlook and endeavored to see the possibilities that come with change. There are some trends, of course, and there were ample frustrations—with capitalism and ageism, with excess and politics.
Categories: changethis
-
Blog / News & Opinion
inBubbleWrap - The Wisdom of Crowds
By 800-CEO-READ
Our prodigious effort to provide you a top-notch business library on inBubbleWrap continues this week with one of the most influential books of the past decade--The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowieki. I assume that because you follow this blog, you're immersed enough in the business book subculture to know about The Wisdom of Crowds. (If not, Todd will tell you all about it in the video below.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / News & Opinion
On the Virtual Road...
By 800-CEO-READ
Last year Paul Williams of Idea Sandbox came to me with an idea - he wanted to steal my idea. I said OK because it wasn't my idea in the first place. Paul wanted to restart a blog book tour for business books.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / Staff Picks
Geeks' Guide to World Domination
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
This handy, little book that's coming out in March is worth checking into! Not just if you're a geek, or just into world domination - but also if you're into tons of information. Useful and not-so-useful.
Categories: staff-picks
-
Blog / News & Opinion
The 100 Best Update
By 800-CEO-READ
It has been three weeks since The 100 Best Business Books of All Time launched and I just wanted to write you a note and thank you for all of your support. Twitter has been a-flitter with tweets: http://tinyurl. com/cm9pvp There are 31,000 hits in Google now with most of them written by all of you: http://tinyurl.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
-
Blog / News & Opinion
Fortune - 10 Tips From the Best in Business
By 800-CEO-READ
Fortune has published 10 tips from Jack and Todd on their Postcards blog. They introduce themselves: As authors of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, published in February by Portfolio, we found ourselves stumbling across the most important business insights of the last 30 years. We learned plenty about leading, managing, innovating and saving your company and yourself when disaster lurks around the corner.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / News & Opinion
Listen Live to My Interview on BlogTalkRadio
By 800-CEO-READ
Here is the widget to listen live to my interview at 9:30AM Central today on BlogTalkRadio with Zane Safrit: If this doesn't work, follow this link: http://www. blogtalkradio.
Categories: news-opinion
-
Blog / News & Opinion
Slam-dunking New Boxes In a New Century
By 800-CEO-READ
In 1994, Dave Dorsey wrote a great book call The Force about the Xerox salesforce that he followed around for a year. The book is so good we included it in The 100 Best. He has written a short piece for us about what the parallels exists between what he wrote about in The Force and what he see going on today: The current financial crisis brings back memories for me.
Categories: news-opinion
