August 8, 2008
News & Opinion: Big Boys of Business Have Books This Fall
By: Dylan Schleicher @ 9:23 PM
–
Filed under:
Management & Workplace Culture
Hardy Green at BusinessWeek has a quick piece on their website about big names with business books in the fall.
- Call Me Ted by Ted Turner was the splash at BEA in June, which included a party hosted by Larry King.
- Richard Branson follows Losing My Virginity and Screw It, Let's Do It with Business Stripped Bare.
- There is a new Warren Buffet book called The Snowball written by Alice Schroeder, who got a $7 million advance for the book.
- T. Boone Pickens' The First Billion Is The Hardest arrives as he promotes his plan for how the U.S. can become energy independent, an idea reflected in the subtitle: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future.
- Historian Steven Watts delivers a Hugh Hefner biography, titled Mr. Playboy.
About Dylan Schleicher
Dylan Schleicher has been a part of the 800-CEO-READ claque since 2003. Even though he's stayed on at the company, he has not stayed put. After beginning in shipping & receiving, he joined customer service and accounting before moving into his current, highly elliptical orbit of duties overseeing the ChangeThis and In the Books websites, the company's annual review of books and in-house design. He lives with his wife and two children in the Washington Heights neighborhood on Milwaukee's West Side.
Related Articles
STAFF PICKS: Reuters to the Rescue
By Dylan Schleicher, published
December 24, 2008,
at
8:48 PM
– Filed under:
Management & Workplace Culture
Reuters reporter Lisa Von Ahn has some recommended "reading to brighten the holidays. "
She starts with three classics being released the day after Christmas by Penguin imprint, Jeremy P. Tarcher.
NEWS & OPINION: The 2008 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards - Entrepreneurship and Small Business Category
By Dylan Schleicher, published
December 5, 2008,
at
6:10 PM
– Filed under:
Management & Workplace Culture
The books on our 2008 shortlist for the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Category are:
Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur by Richard Branson (Virgin Books, Sept 2008)
The selection here is simple: Branson is and continues to be the world's most recognized entrepreneur. Virgin Mobile USA reached one billion dollars in
revenues faster than any company in history (Google and Amazon included). With over 300 companies under the Virgin umbrella, there are more than enough
stories and lessons to share.
NEWS & OPINION: An Independent Bookseller Picks Five
By Dylan Schleicher, published
December 19, 2008,
at
3:00 PM
– Filed under:
Management & Workplace Culture
R. J. Julia Booksellers Founder Roxanne J.
NEWS & OPINION: Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2008
By Dylan Schleicher, published
November 18, 2008,
at
4:52 PM
– Filed under:
Management & Workplace Culture
Airport retailer Hudson Booksellers has announced its best books of 2008, and chosen five in the business category. They are:
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown and Company
Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) by Jeffrey Kluger, Hyperion Books
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp & Miriam Horn, W. W.
NEWS & OPINION: Around the Web
By Dylan Schleicher, published
November 24, 2008,
at
10:11 PM
– Filed under:
Management & Workplace Culture
It's Andrew Carnegie's 173rd birthday, and the always excellent Jacket Copy recently had an insightful post on the man and his gargantuan importance to the free library system, pulling a quote from a speech of his from David Nasaw's excellent 2006 biography of the man, Andrew Carnegie.
Gloria McDonough-Taub at Bullish on Books chooses the three books she's most thankful for this year. They are:
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder,
The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy by David Smick, Portfolio
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes,
The Book Design Review, which rarely covers business books (though Outliers has also showed up there recently), takes a look at Harvard Business Review Classics.
