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BusinessWeek Best-Sellers - (Opens Slidshow) "The New Year is seeing lots of change among best-selling books. New this month are titles on ethics, compassionate business and generosity, getting tough on your debts, and the advantages of the superrich. Take a look.
March 06, 2008
In my various book scouring, I ran across this piece of a Churchill speech. You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done.
March 04, 2008
Recently, I found a book called India's Century by Kamal Nath, that would be a great precursor to our listing of February's top sellers in other countries. Here's just a sampling of the book, from chapter five: In the foreign mind, it was Mumbai (Bombay), of all Indian cities, that used to be the best suited to evoke a vision of modern India. This was all the more evident when I, as the minister for the environment and forests, represented India at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the "Earth Summit", as it was called - in Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1992.
We would like to extend a very special thank you to everyone who was kind enough to take part in the Mystery Box sale to benefit Room to Read. Due to the overwhelming response, we have raised just over $3500 for a great charity and mailed out close to 600 books in just over two weeks. Our bookshelves are empty, and we all have smiles on our faces from everyone showing such amazing support.
March 03, 2008
Office favorite and author of a recent ChangeThis manifesto, Jessica Hagy will be Penguin USA's guest blogger this week. Her new book was released by Penguin last week, and though it's not a business book, I'm sure you'll enjoy it as much as we have. If you haven't taken a gander at her work yet, this would be a great time to start.
If Oprah's chef can have a cookbook, why not Google's chef?
There is a great thread at Signal vs Noise where they are asking readers for good negotiating stories. The books mentioned thus far include: You Can Negotiate Anything by Herb Cohen NO: The Only Negotiating Strategy You Need for Work and Home by Jim Camp Humanitarian Negotiation: A handbook for securing access, assistance and protection for Civilians in Armed Conflcts by The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (free download) Jack Nicholson's famous negotiation in Five Easy Pieces is also mentioned.
February 28, 2008
Joshua Ferris was named a winner in Barnes & Noble's 15th Annual "Discover Great New Writers Awards. " His book Then We Came To The End is a novel about a Chicago ad agency and the tumultuous 1990's. Our resident writer Todd Lazarski wrote this short piece about the book for an upcoming 800-CEO-READ project: The next generation of the business novel, Ferris' hilarious critique of modern office life and the world of marketing acts almost as the written word companion to "Office Space" or "The Office.
There are countless ways to get the most out of your web site, and even more opinions about the best ways. In Zero to One Million, Ryan Allis offers an evaluation system to determine whether your business idea is viable. Then, he provides strategies and steps for optimizing your online marketing efforts.
February 26, 2008
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism >> BusinessWeek | "In Praise of Not-So-Free Trade" Chang argues that the policy recommendations of the "unholy trinity" of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization would have been unacceptable to the U. S.
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