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What my Twitter response to the BW article could have been...
By 800-CEO-READ
AmandaFenton : Before today slips away, my lesson: I miss reading my business books! No more Twitter on the train = 20 mins of old fashioned reading. Nite!
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The Daily Drucker ** CONTEST ALERT **
By 800-CEO-READ
CONTEST IS OVER! CONGRATS PAUL IN OREGON! Once in awhile it happens.
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inBubbleWrap - The Smartest Guys in the Room
By 800-CEO-READ
It being Monday as it is, we're back at inBubbleWrap, giving away another one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. This week, we have The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. As Jack will tell you, it's the best narrative of the Enron saga that exists on bookshelves, and the edition that we're giving away is updated to include the Enron trial and the death of Ken Lay.
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Our Response to BusinessWeek
By 800-CEO-READ
There are only a few people in the media who know business books as well as Jack and I. Hardy Green, an associate editor at BusinessWeek, is one of those people. We met with Hardy in New York two weeks ago and he quickly commenced with critiquing our selections for The 100 Best.
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January's International Best Sellers
By 800-CEO-READ
With more and more people doing business in other countries - it's always nice to keep an eye as to what business leaders are reading. Or, for that matter, what they are having their employees read. .
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Today is the Day
By 800-CEO-READ
Jack and I have been working on an idea for about two years. We thought it made sense to put our knowledge about business books into a book of our own. Today, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time was released by our wonderful friends at Portfolio.
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The Snowball Effect
By 800-CEO-READ
While it's slightly gossipy, there was an interesting article from Leslie Wayne in The New York Times recently about Warren Buffet and his biographer, Alice Schroeder. Apparently, the dinner hosted by Ms. Schroeder, a tradition of many years at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, has been canceled this year.
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Blog / Staff Picks
American Lion
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
In recent days, months even, America has gotten the New Hope via a certain new political leader. But what has come to my attention - slowly at first - seems incredibly relevant and worth mentioning. About a month ago, right after the holiday season, I saw a documentary about Andrew Jackson.
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Two from The 100
Book Review by 800-CEO-READ
Can't wait another day for The 100 Best Business Books of All Time? The following essay compares two of the books contained therein that couldn't be more different upon first inspection. Sloan's My Years With General Motors is a massive undertaking, containing excruciating details spanning many decades that dissect and explain almost every move he made with the company, while Watson's A Business and Its Beliefs is a quick and inspirational read.
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2008's International Best Sellers!
By 800-CEO-READ
I know, I know - it's kind of a bit late for New Year's Wishes, but I'm gonna do it anyway! I'm offering up our listing of what was HOT HOT HOT last year from our customers across the borders, times zones and bodies of water! Take time to see what was popular in Poland, on demand in Denmark, cool in Canada and intoxicating in India!
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