Only one book debuted on the Wall Street Journal business best-seller list this week (July 23-24, p. C14). The book is entitled Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life (Atria Books, 2016). It entered the list at #7, and has been available since mid-April of this year. The author is Adam Markel. … Read More Markel Debuts Pivot on Best-Selling Business List
Only one new book debuted on the Wall Street Journal business best-selling list, published on July 16-17, p. C10. The book is entitled Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez (New York: Harper, 2016). The book was distributed on June 28, 2016, and debuted at # 5 in the… Read More Why Chaos Monkeys Flew in to the Best-Seller List at # 5
The new book by Chris Anderson, TED: Guide to Public Speaking (Houghton Mifflin, 2016), rocketed to the #3 position in its debut week on the Wall Street Journal best-selling hardcover business list, published on May 21-22 (p. C14). We rely on the New York Times business best-seller list as our primary source for selecting books… Read More Anderson’s TED Book Has Strong Debut
Michael Synk of Memphis, Tennessee is a business coach/consultant who coaches business owners and executives in the Mid-South on how to have a better business and richer life. He now hosts his own version of the First Friday Book Synopsis in Memphis, with a creative use of materials from our companion web site, 15minutebusinessbooks.com. He… Read More There’s Never Enough Time to Read All The Good Books! – Thus, We Have Our (Book) Towers of Guilt
This is a “let’s think about a question together” blog post. It’s hard, probably impossible, to figure out just what books will be “big” for the coming 12 months. Bob Morris, our blogging colleague, reads and reviews very many books for Amazon and other sites. (I suspect he has passed 2000 books by now). So… Read More What will the best-selling books teach us in 2010?
News Item – Netflix awards $1 Million Prize for innovation from outside the company The contest was to help with the most basic of promises of Netflix: “If you like this movie, we’ll help you find the next movie you will like – even though you had no idea you would like it.” From the… Read More “Everybody” Knows More than “Anybody” — Netflix Awards a Prize in the Era of Wikinomics
There is a clear finding in the books I have presented so far in 2009. If you put Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell with Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin, you learn that getting really, really good at anything requires a lot, a whole lot, of hard work, with a discipline of pursuing “deliberate practice” over the… Read More Passion — The Crucial Ingredient that Precedes “Getting Really Good” at Something
A childhood memory. I loved comic books. And I liked the ads in the back nearly as much as the comic books themselves. Look like Charles Atlas; buy x-ray specs; sell Grit. I wish the world could be filled with only Grit articles. This is from an early editorial, (yes, I found this on Wikipedia):… Read More Panic — What Some (A Lot of!) People Feel in this Economic Climate
“Get to Work! You aren’t being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.” (from a poster available on the dark site, despair.com). Here’s a problem. How do we stay focused on business improvement, business innovation, business excellence, when so many people are simply dealing with business survival? The news is bad, and not… Read More Keep At It — What Else is There?
I was looking over my synopsis of the book Outliers again this week, thinking about the 10,000 hour rule. That’s the rule that says that it takes 10,000 hours to get really good at anything. But it’s not just any old 10,000 hours. It is 10,000 hours spent with the intention of mastering a… Read More Outliers, the 10,000 hour rule, and the Pilot Hero
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