BizBook Nuggets

Most Blogged About Books

This list is from the New York Times, based on the most blog mentions. The top 9 are mostly biz books.

1. FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING
By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow, April 2005)

2.  HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (BOOK 6)
By J. K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books, July 2005)

3.  BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING
By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, January 2005)

4.  THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005)

5.  GETTING THINGS DONE: THE ART OF STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY
By David Allen (Penguin Books, January 2003)

6.  COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED
By Jared Diamond (Viking, December 2004)

7.  BLOG: UNDERSTANDING THE INFORMATION REFORMATION THAT'S CHANGING YOUR WORLD
By Hugh Hewitt (Nelson Books, January 2005)

8.  GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL: THE FATES OF HUMAN SOCIETIES
By Jared Diamond (W. W. Norton & Company, April 1999)

9.  THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE
By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books, January 2002)

Best Biz Book List - Business Week

BusinessWeek's December 19th issue covers "The Best of 2005".

Included in this issue is a list of their choices for the top 10 business books of the year.

Here are their picks (not the usual suspects):

The Big Picture
Blink
Conspiracy of Fools
Disneywar
FAB 
Fortune's Formula
The Future for Investors
Three Billion New Capitalists
Winning 
The World is Flat

Publicity for Your Business

Jill Lublin Speaks about Publicity

GUERRILLA PUBLICITY - Practical Strategies to Increase Your Visibility
Wednesday, December 14, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE
Guest Expert: Jill Lublin, author of Guerrilla Publicity

Let's face it; everyone needs effective public relations techniques in order to be a success. This presentation will help professionals in any industry to get their word out. You'll learn: how to find the belly of your message for the mass market; how to establish yourself as an expert - learn how to pull 'em, hold 'em, and pitch 'em in 30 seconds or less; how to prepare a powerful press release that will get guaranteed response; 7 must knows to developing a guerrilla campaign; what the press says when they speak out - 15 things they love and hate; how to craft an angle so that the press will embrace it, as well as get an in-depth knowledge of public relations to maximize exposure. You will also learn low-cost, powerful, practical, original publicity secrets.

Jill Lublin is the author of two national best selling books, Guerrilla Publicity (which is considered the PR bible and is used in university marketing courses) and Networking Magic (which went to #1 at Barnes and Noble).  She is a renowned strategist and international speaker.  As the CEO of the strategic consulting firm, Promising Promotion, Jill has created successful techniques that implement bottom line results.  Jill is founder of GoodNews Media, Inc., a company specializing in positive news.  She is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Do the Dream, where she interviews celebrities who have achieved their dreams.   Jill has recently been featured in the New York Times, Woman’s Day, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as on ABC, NBC, CBS radio and TV national affiliates.  Jill is currently working on her third book, How to Connect, and has a new TV show called The Connecting Minute.

Website:  www.jilllublin.com

Register:  www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

GUERRILLA PUBLICITY - Practical Strategies to Increase Your Visibility
Wednesday, December 14, 2005, 8:30 p.m. ET - FREE
Guest Expert: Jill Lublin, author of Guerrilla Publicity

Let's face it; everyone needs effective public relations techniques in order to be a success. This presentation will help professionals in any industry to get their word out. You'll learn: how to find the belly of your message for the mass market; how to establish yourself as an expert - learn how to pull 'em, hold 'em, and pitch 'em in 30 seconds or less; how to prepare a powerful press release that will get guaranteed response; 7 must knows to developing a guerrilla campaign; what the press says when they speak out - 15 things they love and hate; how to craft an angle so that the press will embrace it, as well as get an in-depth knowledge of public relations to maximize exposure. You will also learn low-cost, powerful, practical, original publicity secrets.

Jill Lublin is the author of two national best selling books, Guerrilla Publicity (which is considered the PR bible and is used in university marketing courses) and Networking Magic (which went to #1 at Barnes and Noble).  She is a renowned strategist and international speaker.  As the CEO of the strategic consulting firm, Promising Promotion, Jill has created successful techniques that implement bottom line results.  Jill is founder of GoodNews Media, Inc., a company specializing in positive news.  She is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Do the Dream, where she interviews celebrities who have achieved their dreams.   Jill has recently been featured in the New York Times, Woman’s Day, and Entrepreneur Magazine, as well as on ABC, NBC, CBS radio and TV national affiliates.  Jill is currently working on her third book, How to Connect, and has a new TV show called The Connecting Minute.

Website:  www.jilllublin.com

Register:  www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line
Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

Biz Books and Sports in the News

Jack Covert over at 800CEORead blog writes that the Baltimore Ravens head coach is using Jim Collin's Good to Great bestseller to get his team working together.

Another example of the universality of business principles, and the cross-over between team sports and working in organizations. Now, if only there were half-time breaks, and you only had to perform a couple hours a week...

Biz Book on Teams a Favorite for NFL Footballers

Biz Books aren't just for executives anymore. Football coaches and quarterbacks are reading the Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. Here's what a Nov. 27th article in USA Today says about the phenomenon:

Why is a business book catching on in the NFL? Partly because these are times when head coaches and CEOs are similarly struggling to maximize teamwork in a world of A-players, rainmakers and would-be hall-of-famers. But it may also be because coaches are closet fans of business leadership/management books, just as executives have long been fans of leadership books written by successful athletes and coaches, such as Wooden on Leadership by former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden.

Corporate leaders have traditionally borrowed from successful sports strategies to run their companies. But lately McCown and others in the NFL are learning a thing or two from a business book about winning tactics in the workplace.

Five Dysfunctions was written for business executives and managers. A football audience was so far from the mind of author Patrick Lencioni that the parable's heroine is a 57-year-old, female CEO named Kathryn who talks about such sappy things as fear of conflict.

Lencioni says he is stunned his book is becoming a must-read for NFL head coaches.

To read the full article and an excerpt from the book Five Dysfunctions of a Team, read further.

Newsletters - What You Need to Know

Smart professionals know the importance of their e-newsletters or ezines. It's been said that building up a database of subscribers is one of the essential keys for getting business online.

But you can't communicate without subscribers, and you can't build up a list of subscribers without delivering a consistent, quality newsletter that has value. When you do, your readers will stay subscribed and end up hiring you for services, or buy other informational products.

This Thursday, Dec. 8 I am teaching the basics of e-newsletters and ezines to a group of professionals through the Business Building Center. You can sign up for free by using this link: http://www.businessbuildingcenter.com/teleclasses.htm.

The Business Building Center has all sorts of useful resources for starting and running a successful business, for coaches, consultants, and other small business owners. Steven Fairley, who wrote Getting Started in Coaching and Travis Greenlee are the two entrepreneurs behind the Center.

You are invited, no fee, just register to get the phone number. It's at 2 p.m. ET, or 11 a.m. for us folks in California and other parts west...

Amazon Editors Picks for 2005

One of my favorite blogs, 800CEORead, reports that Amazon's editors picks has the usual suspects you would expect for a best of 2005:

Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedmen
Resonant Leadership by Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
China Inc. by Ted Fishman
DisneyWar by James Stewart
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
The Travels of a T-Shirt In A Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich

There are two I've ordered, Resonant Leadership, and The End of Poverty... and two more on my wish list, Blue Ocean and China Inc. Hard to choose sometimes.

What are your favorites for 2005?

Strategy + Business E-news Best Biz Books for 2005

Here's a great Best Biz Book List for 2005 from Strategy + Business, s+b's enews, from editor Art Kleiner.

New York, N.Y., November 30, 2005 -- Of the shelfloads of business books produced this year, strategy+business has selected the eight titles you don't want to miss. We asked some of the world's most distinguished business thinkers to help us choose our winners from among 32 notable books published in the last 12 months.

The top books in each category are:

The Future
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman

Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne

Globalization
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Work and Life
Creating the Good Life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness
by James O'Toole

Management
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
by Kurt Eichenwald

Marketing
ProfitBrand: How to Increase the Profitability, Accountability & Sustainability of Brands
by Nick Wreden

Media
Hard News: The Scandals at The New York Times and Their Meaning for American Media
by Seth Mnookin

Leadership
A Life in Leadership: From D-Day to Ground Zero: An Autobiography
by John C. Whitehead

Great selection, in my opinion. What are your favorites this past year?

Jill Lublin, Publicity Expert on Conversations with Experts Teleseminar

A Conversation with Publicity Expert Jill Lublin

You are invited to a Conversation with Experts teleseminar,
Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 8:30 p.m. ET with

Jill Lublin, Guerrilla Publicity

GUERRILLA PUBLICITY - Practical Strategies to Increase Visibility

Let's face it; everyone needs effective public relations techniques in order to be a success. This presentation will help professionals in any industry to get their word out.

You'll learn:
How to find the belly of your message for the mass market
How to establish yourself as an expert
Learn how to pull 'em, hold 'em, and pitch 'em in 30 seconds or less
How to prepare a powerful press release that will get guaranteed response
7 must knows to developing a guerrilla campaign
What the press says when they speak out - 15 things they love and hate
How to craft an angle so that the press will embrace it
An in-depth knowledge of public relations to maximize exposure
Low-cost, powerful, practical, original publicity secrets

Register: www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.

Conversations with Experts is sponsored by Build a Better Blog System.

A Conversation with the Info Products Guy Jame Roche

This Wednesday, Dec. 8, you are invited to our
Conversation with Experts
teleseminar at 8:30 pm ET

James Roché, The Info Product Guy

The Inside Secrets to Creating Great Info-Products

If you are an entrepreneur who is tired of slaving away, trading dollars for hours then join us for a one-hour Conversation where the “Info product Guy”, James Roché reveals the inside secrets to creating great info-products.

The fastest way to get off that treadmill and establish yourself as the preferred expert is to skyrocket your passive income (and prestige) by creating highly profitable e-books, audio programs and workbooks. But most entrepreneurs haven’t got a clue where to start. You'll learn: How to select the right topic; how to develop content fast; how to pick the right price point; the biggest mistakes you can make and how to avoid them, plus much more.

Register: www.ConversationsWithExperts.com

Conversations with Experts: How to Build Your Business On and Off-line Hosted by Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff.