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Publisher's Lunch reports today that Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence had sales of 128,000 copies in its opening week, according to Neilsen's Bookscan.
That is a great start for the book, but people will be watching closely to see if the book can keeping that momentum into the next three or four weeks.
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In this interview, I talk with Jim Kouzes, co-author of The Leadership Challenge.
The book is a classic and was the first to look at leadership from a research-based perspective. I could have talked with Jim for three hours.
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Welcome to "Ask 8cr! " - a new section of our blog where we've created a forum to find out what kinds of issues and challenges people are having in the workplace. We then take these issues and apply a business book we feel offers a viable solution.
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Tom Peters refueled a little inner office discussion between the sales staff here at 8CR with a blog post over at TomPeters! , when mentioning The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. It wasn't until recent discussions, and Mr Peters' blog post that I looked past the personal value of the book, and thought of The Little Prince as a very valuable business tool.
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I believe very strongly in personal responsibility and hard work, but have never really understood it when people say that someone else should "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps". I mean really, if someone were to accomplish that feat literally, they'd pull their own feet out from under themselves and fall right on their backside, so even as a metaphor it seems absurd. I know it's just a figure of speech, but its very utterance seems to deny any existence of a social contract.
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