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"Best Business Book 2008" (Hands Down)
Written by: Tom PetersArticle Overview: If business's true bottom line is people & relationships (What else???), then I offer my, hands down, 2008 Biz Book of the Year:
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"Best Business Book 2008" (Hands Down)
If business's true bottom line is people & relationships (What else???), then I offer my, hands down, 2008 Biz Book of the Year:
The Cellist of Sarajevo, by Steven Galloway.
Fact is, it's the best book I've read in years. It is a short fictional account of the lives and personal and moral trials of a handful of people during the civil war in the Balkans.
I, like 99%+ of you, am/is a spoiled brat—I (you?) cannot imagine what it means to have life, every assumption associated therewith, turned upside down and inside out.
How would I react? No idea!
If you don't buy my "biz book" label, read it anyway.
(*Also on my list of fiction that applies to biz life is another recent read, The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin, 2005, an amazing tale of bureaucracy and moral trials. Together, this pair tops my reading list going back a long, long time.)
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About the Author: Tom Peters RSS for Tom's articles - Visit Tom's website Tom & Bob Waterman coauthored In Search of Excellence in 1982; the book was named by NPR (in 1999) as one of the "Top Three Business Books of the Century," and ranked as the "greatest business book of all time" in a poll by Britain's Bloomsbury Publishing (2002). Tom followed Search with a string of international bestsellers: A Passion for Excellence (1985, with Nancy Austin), Thriving on Chaos (1987), Liberation Management (1992: acclaimed as the "Management Book of the Decade" for the '90s), The Tom Peters Seminar: Crazy Times Call for Crazy Organizations (1993), The Pursuit of WOW! (1994); The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness (1997); and in 1999 a series of books on Reinventing Work: The Brand You50, The Project50 and The Professional Service Firm50. In 2003 Tom and publisher Dorling Kindersley released Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age; the revolutionary book, an immediate No.1 international best seller, aims to do no less than reinvent the business book through vibrant, energetic presentation of critical ideas. Click here to visit Tom's website 100 Ways to Succeed 91 The Art of Making People Feel Welcome My Kinda Guy Ask em Order Should Not Be Taken For Granted |
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