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David Maister has taken a break from larger publisher Free Press, and has recently self-published his latest book The Strategy and the Fat Smoker. Since June, David has written a series of blog posts documenting the process of completing the book, and we've posted an excerpt from the book on our excerpts blog. Suzanne Lowe has also written a great article about David over at MarketingProfs
We wish David the best with this gutsy venture.
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Over at the NYTimes, you'll find one of the most viewed articles this week is on innovation. It features Chip and Dan of Made to Stick and Cynthia Barton Rabe of The Innovation Killer.
In her 2006 book, "Innovation Killer: How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine -- and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It," Cynthia Barton Rabe proposes bringing in outsiders whom she calls zero-gravity thinkers to keep creativity and innovation on track.
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In the Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2007, deputy books editor Mark Lasswell calls out Michael Gates Gill's How Starbucks Saved My Life saying:
At 63, Michael Gates Gill, father of five, found himself out of work, divorced, and nearly broke--not quite what he expected when he was growing up on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the son of New Yorker writer Brendan Gill. But then Mr. Gill found a life raft in the form of an unlikely job, as he relates in the memoir How Starbucks Saved My Life.
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From: A Bull in China by Jim Rogers
This is from Rogers' current book in which he examines the growth and future of the Chinese economy. He just didn't stumble upon this, he first came upon China's importance in the world back in 1984 on his motorcycle tour around the world. Rogers has been following this certain country's growth and development for some time.
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The folks over at strategy + business have chosen what they consider the best business books of the year. There were eight categories, and each one was assigned to an expert in that field for review. Each reviewer also delivered an essay on the books chosen, and they are all good reads.
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