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"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." ...
Tags: Business Book, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald, Financial Accounting
Blog posts 2008-08-01
How Seth Godin Should Read a Business Book
Seth Godin is a gifted packager of ideas for businesspeople. But does he know how to read a business book? His post on just that topic, How to read a business book , is getting a fair amount of attention on the Web (he links to about...
Tags: Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Michael Fitzgerald, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing, Business Book, Seth Godin
Blog posts 2008-05-27
Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp
When I go to Barnes & Noble and look at the shelves and shelves of business books, the thought that comes to my head is: what a freakin' waste of wood pulp. A few months ago, BNET asked me to compile a list of best and...
Tags: Books, Business Book, Professional Development, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Career, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2008-03-14
Business Books = Wasted Wood Pulp
Business Books = Wasted Wood PulpWould they actually be "business" books or......something like philosophy books? Likely the latter since it's stuff like Aristotle's Poetics that has influenced writing in general and marketing in particular.
Tags: Business Book, pulp, Wood, Alchemist
Discussion threads 2008-03-14
Best Business Books of 2007, Part II
David Leonhardt in the New York Times wrote about his favorite economics book of the year in No. 1 Book, and It Offers Solutions. In what he calls "a very good year" for books on economics, he named Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated tops, and his column tells why. It...
Tags: Alan Greenspan, Books, List, Business Book, Professional Development, Career, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2007-12-19
Best Business Books of 2007
The lists of the best business books of 2007 are coming thick and fast now.  Here are some of the highlights: Stanford Engineering professor Tom Kosnik has an updated, annotated list of business books, with his favorites highlighted in green. Kosnik's list. Amazon’s best...
Tags: Books, Amazon.com Inc., Business Week, Business Book, Kosnik, Human Capital, Entrepreneurship, Biotechnology, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2007-12-15
Yet More Marketing Idiocy.
The sales reps for business book publishers have a difficult job. It's a crowded market with powerful resellers the big bookstores who have the clout to call the shots. And while many business books contain valuable ideas, they tend to be similar in title and appearance,...
Tags: Geoffrey James, Marketing, Sales, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Wiley, Business Book Publisher, Business Book, Sales Representative
Blog posts 2007-11-06
10 Underrated Business Books
10 Underrated Business BooksYou've convicned me to re-readGot an old copy of 'how to influence...' I haven't looked at for years, you've convinced me to have another look!RE: 10 Underrated Business Books"Competing on Analytics" by Thomas Davenport has helped me help senior management see the value in number-crunching.RE: 10 Underrated...
Tags: Business Book, Dale Carnegie
Discussion threads 2007-08-26
10 Overrated Business Books (and What to Read Instead)
10 Overrated Business Books and What to Read InsteadFinally, someone gets it right.I have read a couple of Tom Peter's books (first one was bad, shame on me for biting on the second one). Peters is completely full of crap. He only manages to point out what's wrong with everyone...
Tags: Business Book
Discussion threads 2007-08-24
Financial World's Ellen Dweck: taking on the business books; selling FW as a business, as well as investment, magazine is challenge of former Forbes ad sales whiz
Financial World's Ellen Dweck: Taking on the business books
Tags: advertisement, business book, financial, Forbes
Research articles 1988-01-01
SEQUELS TO FINANCIAL SUCCESS: WITH MARKET FRENZY SELLING BUSINESS BOOKS, PUBLISHERS STOCK UP ON SECONDARY OFFERINGS.
As sales of business books surge along with the stock market, New York publishers are trying to score gains with sequels to last year's best- sellers. New to the bookshelves is McGraw-Hill's Electronic Day Traders' Secrets, a follow-up to its popu As sales...
Tags: Books, business book, financial, McGraw-Hill Companies, Motley Fool, stock
Research articles 1999-05-17
The Best Business Books Ever (Really!)
There's been a glaring pothole in the lists of all-time best business books and best business books ever, and new BNET blogger Stanley Bing filled it like non-union labor hoping to see street repair privatized. The truth is, all you really need to learn about business has been out there...
Tags: Books, Business Book, Bing, Asset Management, Blogging, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Internet, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2009-03-02
What's Your List of the Best Business Books?
What are the best business books ever? Good question. Personally, I get bogged down by most business books since too many are badly-organized and ill-thought-out exercises in cheerleading. So, I cruised the Web a bit and found this list by Shoulders of Giants and have to agree...
Tags: Books, Business Book, Channel Management, Marketing, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2009-01-27

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Madoff's "How To Sell" Business Book!!!
Note to readers: a few weeks ago, I posted what I thought was a business book proposal from Bernie Madoff.  Turns out that he was envisioning a shortish book along the lines of "The One Minute Manager." My friend in the publishing industry passed along the final manuscript...
Tags: Madoff, Sales Professional, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2009-01-17
What's the Best Business Book of the Year?
2007 is drawing to a close which means, of course, that it's the season for superlatives. Best and worst lists are as common as Christmas carols this time of year, and today the New York Times has an interesting addition to this December tradition. Alan Greenspan came out with a...
Tags: Human Resources, Software, Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Leonhardt, Health Care, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-12-19
Clement Mok Receives Global Business Book Award; Designing Business Gets Top Honors as Best Business How-To Book
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--June 10, 1997--The Best Business "How-To" Book Award at the Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Awards went to Designing Business -- Multiple Media, Multiple Disciplines -- Clement Mok's analysis of how to bring structure and clarity to the mass of digital information unleashed by emerging communication...
Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Business Wire, INTERNET
Research articles 1997-06-10
Circuit City and the "Good to Great" Business Book Conundrum
Having just  finished writing a lengthy story about almost-bust, electronics mass retailer Circuit City for a weekly newspaper, I keep wondering about the value of business books. The one I have in mind is the 2001 work "Good to Great" by business author Jim Collins who studied...
Tags: Circuit City Stores Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Real Estate, Sales, Business Operations, Peter Galuszka
Blog posts 2008-11-22
Small Business Book Keeping Outsourcing: Get Rid Of All Accounting Worries
Book keeping is an important and crucial aspect of any business. It involves maintaining the daily records of revenue and expenditure. Book keeping requires professionals to work in this field. A small error can prove as an obstacle in paving the way of growth process of any business. Outsourcing is...
Tags: Accounting, Small Business, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers 2008-04-17
USC Marshall Prof, Zappos.com to Offer Free Download of Major Business Book
Professor Dave Logan of USC's Marshall School of Business has teamed with Zappos.com to make a free audio version of his groundbreaking 2008 business book "Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization" available exclusively at the online retailer. Since hitting bookstores last February, the...
Tags: Business School, Leadership, Management, Stacy Blackman
Blog posts 2008-11-04
Economic Research Press Releases New Business Book on 'The Southern Advantage'
Business Editors KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 10, 2003 Economic Research Press today released a must-have business book, "The Southern Advantage: Why You Should Consider Doing Business In The World's Fourth-Largest Economy." In this new book, author Joe Hollingsworth, Jr. introduces the growing trend of "South-Sourcing" ... the usefulness...
Tags: Hollingsworth
Research articles 2003-11-10
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