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." ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NESTLING next to the gushing waterfalls and foliage of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre is a shop specialising in nature books and merchandise. The shop is owned and managed by a husband and wife team, Morten Strange and Ng Bee Choo. As a...
This project investigated the interrelationships between family expectations and young people's post-school plans. All of the participants were from financially disadvantaged families. The research used interviews to understand these young people's perspectives of their transition experiences: the ways in which young people's school experiences impacted on their...
Mark Watson is a professor and head of the Psychology Department of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa. his research focuses on career development and career assessment of primary, secondary and tertiary students from all South African population groups. Mark has published extensively in international...
I WANT WHAT SHE'S HAVING: THE EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A PLEASURABLE BUSINESS. Naomi Simson, Messenger Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9803284-0-0 Have you ever wanted to discover what it is really like inside a fast growing business?' is the question posed on the back cover...
Fannie Mae sacks two board members *Fannie Mae, the US mortgage finance giant which investors believe may have to be bailed out by the federal government, has sacked two of its board members. The board reaffirmed its confidence in the leadership of chief executive Dan Mudd, but...
With two months to go in her first pregnancy, Maddy Corey is busy flipping through name books in search of the perfect moniker for her unborn daughter. Already, a few of her friends and co-workers have offered a few jewels: How about Banana Legs? What about Cherokee...
Intacct, a leader in on-demand financialmanagement and accounting applications, today announced that nGenera isusing Intacct PlusTM to manage its growing global business. The Intacctfinancial management system enables nGenera to accommodate rapid growthwithout adding resources to its finance team and to gain a single,consolidated view of its business to improve...
FFW Corporation (OTCBB: FFWC) (8/26/2008 Close:$19.15), parent corporation of Crossroads Bank, has approved a quarterlycash dividend of $0.22 per share of common stock. The dividend is payableSeptember 30, 2008 to shareholders of record on September 12, 2008. Thedividend represents a 4.76% increase over the cash dividend of $0.21...
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