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Resources for Humans editor Celeste Blackburn reviews the book How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves from the Board to the Boardroom by Garry Kasparov. Reviews highlights how book’s theories on strategic thinking can be used in HR, business, and personal life.
BusinessWeek ranks business books that are the most recent bestsellers and provides a short summary.
1. Basic Black by Cathie Black. The president of Hearst Magazines provides advice for achieving success and balance in life.
2. The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. The author unveils the secrets to joining the “New Rich.”
HR manager David South reviews the book StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath. Review discusses how book and accompanying website helps employers find employees’ talents.
Tom Rath leads Gallup’s workplace research and leadership consulting worldwide. He coauthored How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
and most recently authored Vital Friends: The People You Can’t Afford to Live Without
Ralph Gaillard reviews the book Recruiting the Workforce of the Future by Bruce Tulgan. Review praises book’s striaghtforward advice and checklists to help HR recruit the right employees.
Let’s face it: Recruiting is no picnic. In fact, it’s one of the biggest headaches facing HR today. The pressure to find that perfect candidate has never been greater as senior company leaders are screaming for a return on their recruiting investment. What’s happening is that recruitment is becoming the new metric by which HR careers are being either elevated or destroyed.
The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on January 14.
1. Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad For Life
By James L. Cramer
The hyper-active host of CNBC’s “Mad Money” offers his prescription for striking it rich for life.
2. The Age of Turbulence
By Alan Greenspan
HR consultant and author of 13 bestselling business books Carol Hacker reviews the book Boom! 7 Choices for Blowing the Doors Off Business-As-Usual by Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg. Review highlights the choices employers must make to create a workplace environment that works for both employees and customers.
The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on January 7.
1. Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life, by James J. Cramer with Cliff Mason. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) The host of “Mad Money” on CNBC explains how to get rich and stay rich.
2. The Age of Turbulence, by Alan Greenspan. (Penguin Press, $35.) A memoir by the longtime chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
3. Giving, by Bill Clinton. (Knopf, $24.95.) The former president describes people and projects that save lives and solve problems around the world.
4. Women & Money, by Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau, $24.95.) How women can achieve financial security.
5. The 4-Hour Workweek, by Timothy Ferris. (Crown, $19.95.) Because life isn’t all about work.
6. The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. (Random House, $26.95.) A financial trader with an expertise in probability theory and statistics, debunks much about economic forecasting, and uses examples ranging from how a book becomes a best-seller to how an entrepreneur becomes a mogul.
7 . Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Morrow, $27.95.) A scholar uses economics to explore the incentives that drive such disparate groups, including crack gangs, sumo wrestlers, school teachers, campaign fund-raisers and real estate agents.
8. Basic Black, by Cathie Black. (Crown Business, $24.95.) Using personal anecdotes, the president of Hearst Magazines offers advice to businesswomen.
9. Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. (Free Press, $30.) How to identify and develop your talents and those of your employees.
10. A Bull in China, by Jim Rogers. (Random House, $26.95.) Investors can learn how to capitalize on the new economic boom happening in China.
11. Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life, by Donald J. Trump and Bill Zanker. (Collins/HarperCollins, $26.95.) Thinking and acting aggressively on the path to prosperity.
12. The Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein (Metropolitan, $28.00.) The implementing of economic policies following moments of “shock and awe.”
13 The Total Money Makeover, by Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson, $24.99.) Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host.
14 Bo’s Lasting Lessons, by Bo Schembechler and John U. Bacon. (Business Plus, $25.99.) The late, great Michigan football coach shares his 30 years of commonsense leadership skills.
15 Microtrends, by Mark J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne. (Twelve, $25.99.) Detecting small patterns and their great impact.
For many of you, it’s the first day back to work after the holidays, which means you’re swamped with voice-mails, e-mails, meetings and performance appraisals. As (reading) time is short these days, enjoy the following Hot List, which ticks off the top business audio books for 2007. This list is courtesy of the “Audies.” Think Oscars for audio books! Considered to be the premier award for audio books, this annual program is sponsored by the Audio Publishers Association.
1. Mavericks At Work
By William C. Taylor, Polly LaBarre, read by Barrett Whitener
(Harper Audio)
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