There are three hardcover business books that debuted on today’s Wall Street Journal best-selling list (May 28-29, p. C 16). They are: # 4 – NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE by Christopher Voss (Harper Business) # 5 – YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A SHARK by Robert Herjavec (St. Martin’s Press) #10 – MAKERS AND TAKERS… Read More Three New Debut Best-Sellers
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
Let me help you plan your reading for 2011. The issue is… Leadership Development. Look at those words. Think about them. They say a lot. Mainly they say this – leaders have to be developed, and leaders have to focus on, and work on, continual development. This does not happen by accident. Some leaders may… Read More Here’s a Suggested Reading List for Leadership Development (for 2011) – Now, with Update
Bob Morris has reviewed over 10 million books by now (ok – the actual number is over 2,000 – but if you get to know the man, you think he has read every book! He is an amazing font of knowledge). His reviews appear in a lot of places, including Amazon.com, and of course here… Read More The Sixth Dysfunction of a Team (with apology/appreciation to Patrick Lencioni)
We had a wonderful morning at the October First Friday Book Synopsis. Karl presented a synopsis of the terrific new Tony Schwartz (et. al) book, The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance. I presented my synopsis of The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest… Read More Coming for the November First Friday Book Synopsis – Tapscott’s Macrowikinomics, and Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership
First Friday Book Synopsis 