Amazon's Best of 2008
November 05, 2008
Amazon has posted its editors' picks for 2008. In the Business & Investing category, they chose: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School Press (Jack Covert Selects) The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It by John Gerzema, Jossey-Bass The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth by J.
Amazon has posted its editors' picks for 2008. In the Business & Investing category, they chose:
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam
- A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter, Harvard Business School Press (Jack Covert Selects)
- The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It by John Gerzema, Jossey-Bass
- The Momentum Effect: How to Ignite Exceptional Growth by J.C. Larreche, Wharton School Publishing
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects)
- The Gone Fishin' Portfolio: Get Wise, Get Wealthy...and Get on With Your Life by Alexander Green, John Wiley & Sons
- The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By by Scott A. Shane, Yale University Press
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li, Harvard Business School Press
- The Contrarian Effect: Why It Pays (Big) to Take Typical Sales Advice and Do the Opposite by Michael Port, John wiley & Sons
- Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects)
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely, HarperCollins (Jack Covert Selects)
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam
- Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds, New Riders Publishing
- Nudge; Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein, Yale University Press (Jack Covert Selects)
- The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros, PublicAffairs
- Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell, Basic Books
- Bad Money: The Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips, Viking Press
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam, Portfolio (Jack Covert Selects)
- The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris, PublicAffairs
- Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier by Gary Harpst, Six Disciplines Publishing