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- The Kindergartener's Guide to Business
- 800ceoread is readying its take on the 100 best business books of all time. It just offered up a sneak preview of five of the books that will be on the list, which will be published in December Four of the five are conventional business books, if...
- Blog posts 2008-08-17
- Do Good by Reading Good Books
- 800CEORead is offering a Three for $30 deal -- for $30, you get three books, including one that was at least a finalist for its Best Books of 2008 list. In turn, it donates the money to Room to Read, a well-regarded educational charity which works in developing countries. by...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
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- Three Reasons You Should Move to Mexico City
- 1) It's the original mega-city. 2) It's the model for the future of cities. 3) It's going to be big for business. That's the theme of First Stop in the New World, given a thumbs up by 800CEORead. Of course, 800CEORead...
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- The Best Haiku With "Start-Up"
- I've always loved haiku. And with my new interest in all things Japan, my interest in haiku has risen correspondingly. (Female sources also whisper from the shadows that poetry helps a man get in touch with his soft side?)The best haiku experiment I've done was for my birthday last year,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- New book on Edison coming soon
- The blog 800CEOread gives a thumbs up to a new biography of Thomas Edison, "Edison on Innovation: 102 Lessons in Creativity." It says that the book humanizes Edison in a way previous biographies have not, and calls it "a refreshing way to go about invoking creativity." by Michael Fitzgerald
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Idle Your Way to Success
- There's a clever interview on 800CEORead with Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the U.K. literary journal The Idler. Hodgkinson has also written two books, The Freedom Manifesto and How to Be Idle: A Loafer's Manifesto. In the interview, entitled Rethinking Work: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson, they cover...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Tichy and Bennis' "Judgment" Judged
- The book Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis was published in November 2007 and garnered a fair amount of attention, given that Tichy and Bennis are well-known management thinkers. Business Week ran an excerpt from the book, they wrote a...
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- Management By Napkin
- Just out is Back of the Napkin, a book that looks at business problem-solving by using visual cues. My review copy is sitting here waiting for me to give it a look. My first impression is that "Back of the Napkin" is a little seat-of-the-pants (that's certainly true of the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Review Roundup
- 800CEORead posted a roundup of reviews of business books in major business magazines, covering The Economist, Portfolio, Business Week and Fortune. The two most promising seem to be William J. Bernstein's "A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" and Richard J. Elkus Jr.'s "Winner Take All:...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- "Good To Great" a Big Mistake?
- So, are the best business books of all-time worth reading? Steven "Freakonomics" Levitt says maybe not. In his latest column in the NYT, From Good to Great to Below Average, he talks about finally getting around to reading Jim Collins' "Good to Great." ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Are You Too Nice?
- If you're in business, you probably think you are. Some 61 percent of managers say they're too nice. Tim Hiltabiddle, the co-author of "Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office" is hosting 800CEORead for a day or two. Here's his post on why he wanted...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- How To Deal with Our Irrational Selves
- Understanding why we make seemingly irrational decisions underpins several current books. One of those is "Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior," and authors Ori and Rom Brafman are featured in this podcast with 800CEORead. It's more than 30 minutes start to finish, but those who just...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Six Steps to Making Good Decisions
- I once worked on a book aimed at better decision-making. The authors were bright researchers, hot shot business school professors with blue-chip consulting clients who had used their theories to make better decisions. They hoped their book would do for corporate decision-making what "In Search of Excellence" had done...
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- A Review Roundup
-  The latest weekly roundup of book reviews by is up on 800CEOread. They discuss reviews of seemingly in order of enjoyment: "Crowdsourcing" "The Numerati" "Demon of Our Own Design" "Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing -- Yours Doesn't Have To" ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- A Deep Look at Chris Zook's Core Trilogy
- Six in ten companies are going to have to redefine their core business in the next ten years because their profit pool is going to shift, be redistributed, or collapse completely. I took that sentence from an in-depth review of the Core trilogy by Chris Zook, a...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- The Best Business Books to Start With
- Nobody ever gave me a list of books to read when I started working. But 800CEORead has a First Five Books list (really, six books). The list wasassembled with the idea that good stories, based on real world experience, and context are the most important things for...
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- The 100 Best Business Books
- The new book 100 Best Business Books of All Time is now out. In this video, 800CEORead's president, Todd Sattersten,talks about the five themes they looked for in books to make their picks. clarity of purpose wisdom in decision-making...
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- 5 Questions for "100 Best Business Books" co-author Todd Sattersten
- Todd Sattersten started out his career as an engineer at General Electric. Now he's president of 800CEORead, a Milwaukee specialist in business books. Todd was recently in the Boston area for an event around the new book he and Jack Covert have authored, "The 100 Best Business Books of All...
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- "Rebounding" from Job Loss, "WWGD?" and "Wired to Care"
- Jack Covert Selects, the series of reviews from 800CEORead looking at important business books, has three recent reviews at three new books: The most recent is Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, made poignantly topical by Covert as he notes the shutting down...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
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