Sally Haldorson's job as 800-CEO-READ’s General Manager is to make 800-CEO-READ a great place to work for our employees, and a consistently high-performing customer service organization for our clients, authors, and our partners in the publishing industry. In addition to her General Manager duties ensuring collaboration, integration, and quality, she reads, writes, reviews, curates, and edits for the company. Helping craft The 100 Best Business Books of All Time used parts of both skill sets. Outside of work, she is most likely to be found hitting a tennis ball around or hanging out with her boys (husband, child, dog) at home.
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Fall Favorites by and for Feminists (by which I mean, everyone.)
By Sally Haldorson, published
September 9, 2017,
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4:58 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Current Events & Public Affairs, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior, Publishing Industry
New business books, recently released and upcoming, written by women.
The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
By Sally Haldorson, published
August 29, 2017,
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12:00 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Nilofer Merchant’s message is so critical now, calling us to identify what is good in ourselves and to connect with what is good in others so that, together, we can dent the world.
Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights Into the Next Big Thing
By Sally Haldorson, published
June 13, 2017,
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3:13 PM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Innovation & Creativity, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Bernadette Jiwa's new book is a reminder that we shouldn't surrender our human faculty to the advance of big data.
Double Bind: Women on Ambition
By Sally Haldorson, published
May 16, 2017,
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11:10 AM
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Current Events & Public Affairs, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Robin Romm has edited a book of essays from successful women that takes on "the last feminist taboo"—ambition.
A Q&A with Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant about Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
By Sally Haldorson, published
April 24, 2017,
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11:00 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Biography & Narrative, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Our General Manager, Sally Haldorson, recently sent Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant five carefully considered questions about their new book. They responded in kind.
Redefining Resilience and Telling a New Life Story: Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant's Option B
By Sally Haldorson, published
April 17, 2017,
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11:15 AM
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Personal Development & Human Behavior
This is what Option B offers: for the grieving, a guide to recovery and resilience; for the empathetic, a guide to responding and respecting others whose life stories we can’t pretend to know.
The Language of Loss is the Language of Life
By Sally Haldorson, published
March 20, 2017,
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9:30 AM
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Biography & Narrative, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Facing the loss of life requires a new kind of language, one that isn't secret, but shared.
The 2016 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year
By Sally Haldorson, published
January 12, 2017,
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7:31 PM
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800-CEO-READ has selected What Works: Gender Equality by Design by Iris Bohnet (Belknap Press) as the 2016 Business Book of the Year.
The 2016 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry: Hollis Heimbouch
By Sally Haldorson, published
January 12, 2017,
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7:30 PM
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Publishing Industry
Each year, 800-CEO-READ recognizes one of the most significant contributors to the development and current state of the business book industry.
Inside the Longlist: Management & Workplace Culture
By Sally Haldorson, published
November 10, 2016,
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9:15 AM
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Management & Workplace Culture, Publishing Industry, The Company
These Management and Workplace Culture books range from advice on radical change to strategic solutions and provide practical examples and innovative approaches for managing your people, how your people manage and represent your product, and how you and your people manage to be happy at and in their work.
Inside the Longlist: Leadership & Strategy
By Sally Haldorson, published
November 2, 2016,
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1:30 PM
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Leadership & Strategy, Publishing Industry, The Company
The following five Leadership & Strategy books will help guide you, your company, and your people through growth, through evolution, through reinvention. Each of these books will act as a lantern to make the forest a little less dark, and the way forward a little more clear.
A Q&A with Leslie Michelson about The Patient's Playbook
By Sally Haldorson, published
October 6, 2016,
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10:00 AM
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Our general manager, Sally Haldorson, sent Leslie Michelson some questions about The Patient's Playbook.
