Staff Picks
We are known for our business book expertise, but most of our staff started working here because of our passion for books, not business. 800-CEO-READ is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at getting the right books into the hands of the right people. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’ve been reading.
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment
By Rebecca Schwartz, published
October 3, 2018,
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2:00 PM
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Current Events & Public Affairs
Our owner and CEO takes a look inside the country's prison industrial complex, and its long history, through the lens of journalist Shane Bauer's new book.
What We're Reading Over Memorial Day Weekend
By Blyth Meier, published
May 23, 2018,
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1:08 PM
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The Company
Our staff members share the books they will be reading over the holiday weekend.
10 Books for New Graduates
By Blyth Meier, published
May 9, 2018,
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11:21 AM
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Current Events & Public Affairs, Innovation & Creativity, Management & Workplace Culture, Narrative & Biography, Personal Development & Human Behavior
These ten books make perfect gifts for your new grads, as they begin to navigate the Rest of Their Lives.
Story Driven: You Don’t Need to Compete When You Know Who You Are
By Sally Haldorson, published
April 11, 2018,
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10:00 AM
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Big Ideas & New Perspectives, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Bernadette Jiwa teaches us to be better marketers, marketers who insist on authenticity and truth, and so much more in the process.
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, Current Events & Public Affairs, Leadership & Strategy, Management & Workplace Culture, Narrative & Biography, 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.
End of Summer Staff Reading
By 800-CEO-READ, published
August 23, 2017,
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9:47 AM
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The Company
Here's what our staff has been reading during the gorgeous Milwaukee summer.
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.
How Cycling Can Save the World
By Blyth Meier, published
June 7, 2017,
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2:53 PM
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Current Events & Public Affairs
A manifesto for everyday cycling from The Guardian's Peter Walker is an urgent call for today's world.
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.
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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Narrative & Biography, Personal Development & Human Behavior
Facing the loss of life requires a new kind of language, one that isn't secret, but shared.
