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Jon interviewed Tom Peters the other day and it reminded me to share photos from when Tom visited us in Milwaukee in 1994 on his tour for The Pursuit of Wow.
April 08, 2008
A reader suggested an addition of Atlas Shrugged to the best business book of all time vote we're running. Interestingly a few weeks back the weekly edition of The Week had a quip about Ayn Rand's famous book: It was revealed that at least 17 universities had accepted $1 million from a wealthy donor under the condition that they make Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged required reading in a course on capitalism from a moral perspective. If you're a Rand fan, Atlas Shrugged is now up on the book vote site.
April 07, 2008
Off of our current top 25 books of March, here is what is available now in audio format: 1) Double or Nothing by Cal Fussman 2) Made to Stick by Chip Heath 4) Hug Your People by Jack Mitchell 6) How Come that Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? by Robert Shemin 12) What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith 13) Rich Dad's Prophecy by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L.
Paul Arden, famous for his 14 years of creativity at Saatchi & Saatchi, passed away last week. He shared his passion and made his impression on the book world with two titles: A telling profile of the bestselling author from Creativity-Online: "Paul Arden was one of the most exceptional creative directors I've known, with an individualism and passion for perfection that resulted in some of the best advertising of the 80s and 90s," said Anthony Simonds Gooding, chairman of U. K.
For everyone I speak to about how we can customize your books, I will now be referring you to this post. For those of you that didn't know, we do all sorts of stuff to books to make them more personalized for the people receiving them: tipped-in pages, signed copies, belly bands, etc.
April 04, 2008
Silicon Dragon>>The Wall Street Journal | China's New Frontier Ms. Fannin sets out to show, as her subtitle has it, "How China Is Winning the Tech Race. " But "winning" really goes too far.
April 03, 2008
There's a book coming out sometime in the next few weeks called Where's Your Wow? : 16 Ways to Make Your Competitors Wish They Were You! The authors, Robyn Spizman and Rick Frishman, talk about Wow people: "Everyone wants to be around them.
April 01, 2008
Recently, I was at a popular electronic "super store" (think Circuit City/Best Buy type). I was browsing through the DVDs and noticed a flaw, basically due to the fact that I'm a big trivia geek: most of The Thin Man mystery series were shelved with movie musicals like Grease, West Side Story and everything Elvis. Odd, right?
March 25, 2008
Another listing of titles in Spanish came to my attention! These can be great as gifts for bi-lingual clients or employees! If you want to place an order for any of these books, let me know (roy@800ceoread.
March 24, 2008
Myself and Other Important Matters>>The Wall Street Journal | A Business Guru's Portfolio Life "Myself and Other More Important Matters" is a charming autobiography, recounting Mr. Handy's life in genial prose. Like the best Oxford tutorials, it is much more substantial than it first appears.
March 21, 2008
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