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Best Business Books for 2008 Announced

Congratulations to Seth Godin and all the authors who are winners of the 2008 800ceoread Business Book Awards.

800-CEO-READ, an online bookseller and champion of great ideas in the business book category, today announced the winners of its second annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards. TRIBES: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin (Portfolio), was named the Best Business Book of the Year along with winners in 13 other categories.

In naming Tribes the overall winner, Jack Covert, founder and president of 800-CEO-READ said, "Tribes is Seth's most ambitious effort and potentially his most powerful, because when Seth talks about leadership, he skips the usual and goes right to the heart of it. More importantly, he is giving us a new way to talk about leadership."

The company received 280 entries, which were evaluated and critiqued by the company's editorial staff. The semi-finalists were announced over the last two weeks on 800-CEO-READ's website, www.800ceoread.com.

The Best Business Book of 2008:
Tribes
Seth Godin

10 Best Business Books List Published

Michael Hyatt, President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, has updated his ten favorite business books. They are:

Focus: The Future Of Your Company Depends On It by Al Ries, HarperBusiness

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, Penguin Books

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins, HarperCollins

Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends by Tim Sanders, Three Rivers Press

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham, Free Press

Slide:Ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte, O'Reilly

Stress for Success by James E. Loehr & Mark McCormack, Three Rivers Press

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber, HarperCollins

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin, Portfolio

You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are by Roger Aisles, Doubleday

The Confident Leader by Larina Kase Launches

Well, a fantastic new book recently came across my desk...

...and I suddenly realized, wow this is unprecedented. This is new. This is groundbreaking.

What is it?

It's a brand new book (and teleseminar series...more on that in a moment) by my friend and colleague, Dr. Larina Kase, called:

The Confident Leader: How the Most Successful People Go from Effective to Exceptional

www.ConfidentLeaderBook.com/blogsquad

Amazon Offers Free Trial for Shipping Services

If you're an author, you love books...and you probably use Amazon.com to order them. I've been using their 'free' shipping services for a couple of years now, and have saved a lot of money since I probably order one or two books a month, at least.

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Spiritual Selling by Joe Nunziata - Not just for salespeople

Spiritual Selling: How to Use the Attractor Sales System™ to Create Abundance in Your Business
By Joe Nunziata

Abundance. Defined as “a great and plentiful amount.” Too often we associate abundance with wealth, forgetting that it could also refer to fulfilling relationships, improved health, or a simple state of joy.

As a salesperson, it may seem like all the key elements are in place: a great product, a great service, and great prospects. But for some reason there aren’t enough sales. Countless books on new sales techniques aren’t changing things either. Something is blocking those sales, and it might take a while to realize that the block is coming from inside of the salesperson.

It's time for a new approach to selling, one based on something more than numbers and financial success. Joe Nunziata has written this book to combine many life lessons with sales, but it's not just for sales people.

The Answer: The Book by John Assaraf Offers $1.2 Million in Contest Prizes

The Answer to Grow Any Business and Access Unlimited Abundance by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

OneCoach® founders John Assaraf and Murray Smith have co-authored a new business book called simply, The Answer. And, get this: they are also offering $1.2 million in prizes for a business makeover contest!

Business-growth experts and entrepreneurs John Assaraf and Murray Smith wrote The Answer to show entrepreneurs how to apply the Law of Attraction to grow business and access unlimited abundance.

They are kicking off an international campaign giving business owners an opportunity to win their share of $1.2 million in business-growth services – including $25,000 in cash.

Through the 2006 best-selling book and movie The Secret, millions of people were introduced to the concept of the Law of Attraction, the idea that focused thoughts can attract the things people want, even turning their wildest dreams into reality. Since then, many people have wondered, “How can I apply that idea to create success in work and business?”

John Assaraf, a teacher featured in The Secret, and his business partner Murray Smith, decided to share their expertise in quantum science and business growth in this new book titled “The Answer: Grow any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom and Live an Extraordinary Life.”

Released nationwide on May 20, 2008, The Answer combines their wisdom and insight to show entrepreneurs how to apply the Law of Attraction and practical, proven strategies, to build a dream business and access unlimited abundance.

From Boomers to Bloggers: Success Strategies Across Generations

From Boomers to Bloggers: Success Strategies Across Generations, by Misti Burmeister

This is an important new book, out today, on how businesses can succeed, as “Bloggers” replace “Boomers” in the workforce. (Buy it today and benefit from amazing bonuses at www.InspirionInc.com.)

Together, with the support of friends and colleagues, Misti is launching an Amazon.com campaign to offer high-valued resources, free of charge for those who purchase the book today. Go here for more details.

A team of distinguished experts, including Zig Ziglar, Mac Cassidy and Bob Burg, are contributing to this campaign to bring you an amazing list of bonus gifts valued at over $1,300!

Click here to see the full list of experts and your free rewards.

Here is information about the book:

Today’s businesses face two significant intergenerational problems: older workers with a lot of knowledge are retiring and companies don’t have a knowledge-transfer process in place; and the young professionals coming in have different expectations than the boomers headed out the door.

Coaching Is for Everyone: New Book by Terri Levine

I've known Terri Levine for years; she's one of the most successful life coaches around, as well as being prolific in her work. Besides this new book being released May 1 (buy it then and get the superb bonuses), she's published 9 other books.

Coaching Is for Everyone: Learn How to Be Your Own Coach at Any Age
by Terri Levine

"To manifest your fullest ability and become a great self-creator, you need a superstar coach. Terri's the coach of coaches, who teaches coaching from the highest point of view with the most insight, knowledge and wisdom. Reach & drink deeply of her wisdom. Then go out and become a great coach, also." -- Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best selling series "Chicken Soup for the Soul"

In her new book Coaching is for Everyone, Terri helps people evaluate their strengths and weaknesses identifying old patterns of behavior and replacing them with techniques that will help them live happier more fulfilling lives.

"Whether you want to improve your relationships, lose weight or increase your productivity at work, you're never too old to learn how to turn your life around", says Levine.

Levine is one of the country’s top certified professional life coaches.  In Coaching is for Everyone Terri Levine shares:

The Milkshake Moment by Steven S. Little

The Milkshake Moment: Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth by Steven S. Little

The story I’m about to tell you is true.

A few years ago I traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, for a speaking engagement.  Anyone who travels for business knows that it is hardly glamorous. After 9/11, however, it became even more frustrating, and it keeps getting worse.

I don’t think I’d be overstating it to say that business travel today is horrific: irretrievably lost luggage, annoying security searches, perpetually oversold flights, infuriating rental car policies, frazzled counter staff . . . I think you get the picture.

Despite all the traumas of travel, I decided a few years ago to always keep a smile on my face. The way I look at it: if the business travel industry gets the best of me, they win and I lose. I just can’t allow that to happen.

I keep a smile on my face by keeping my eye on a prize. My prize at the end of every business travel day is a vanilla milkshake . . . a thick, gooey, luscious, indulgent vanilla milkshake. I’m talking a hand-dipped, old-fashioned, malt-shoppy kind of milkshake. I don’t just like ’em; I love ’em. Both my career and my mental well-being literally depend on them. The image of that milkshake is the proverbial dangling carrot that gets me through even the worst travel day.

Groundswell, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff

There's an interesting interview on Lee Odden's Online Marketing blog with Charlene Li, vice-president of Forrester Research about her new book written with Josh Bernoff, Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

Companies worldwide are trying their best to make sense of the emerging landscape of social technologies and the new book Groundswell does a fantastic job at just that.

We met Charlene at BlogHer Conference last year, and she's one of the most knowledgeable experts on blogging and social technology research. In her interview with Lee, she mentions several CEO blogs that are well done, and some of the problems inherent in executive blogging.

Read the interview, and buy the book, if you want to understand what's coming next for using social technologies for marketing large and small.