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The shortlist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year has been announced. As with the longlist for the award, it is dominated by books covering the recent financial turmoil. The only two covering other topics are:
The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar, Twelve
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster
The books on the shortlist that cover the crisis are:
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.
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Has this happened to you?
You interview at a great company for a great job, and you get it! Then, you start the job and realize that there's much more at play than just the great position you landed.
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A short while ago, I wrote a defense of business books here on the 800-CEO-READ blog, contending that the business book genre includes such a wide range of subgenres that it doesn't deserve the disdain or dismissal it often receives as being pedantic or unappealing to a wider audience. Today, Todd Sattersten contributes a precise retort against the criticism the genre receives by quoting some of the most recent critics and showing the shortcomings of their arguments against the value of business books.
There is no right or wrong answer in the argument of whether most business books offer value to readers.
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If you'd like to be an ethically upstanding, emotionally engaged, clutch performer who invests your money wisely, gives great presentations and empowers your employees, you will want to read the 74th issue of ChangeThis. If not, then might I suggest You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You: The Believer Book of Advice (actually, you should read that anyway. .
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“The irreducible essence of leadership is that leaders are people who live their deepest personal values without compromise, and they use those values to make life better for others—that is why people become leaders and why people follow leaders. ” —Stan Slap, Bury My Heart at Conference Room B (Portfolio, August 2010)
If you follow Jack Covert Selects, you may recognize the quote above from Jack's most recent review. It's a quote that Jack and Carol appreciated so much that they asked me to put it on our conference room wall.
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