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NY Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers - October 2009

New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – October 2009
 
Yawn… Eleven months and Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the NY Times hardcover business best seller rankings. We love this book, and yet it still seems a little unbelievable that one book could remain on top of such a dynamic list for so long. [...]

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NY Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers – September 2009

 
New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – September 2009
 
Ten months and counting for Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers as it continues to dominate the NY Times best seller rankings. To read our review of this outstanding book, check out our July 2009 best seller rankings.
 
Though not showing the staying power of Gladwell yet, two authors [...]

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TheManager’s Leadership Book Review

Don’t Bring It to Work – Breaking the Family Patterns That Limit Success, by Sylvia Lafair, PhD
I absolutely love it when an expert in a non-business field brings their knowledge to the business world. Whether it’s a former all-star athlete turned successful businessman (ala Julius Erving), or a rehabbed musician turned stock trader (ala [...]

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NY Times Business Hardcover Best Sellers - August 2009

New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – August 2009

Nine months and counting for Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers as it continues to dominate the NY Times best seller rankings. To read our review of this outstanding book, check out our July 2009 best seller rankings.

Rounding out the rest of this month’s list, [...]

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Enough Standing on the Sidelines - The Kindle is Worth the Money

The Amazing(?) Amazon Kindle

This week Amazon lowered the price of their popular six-inch Kindle by $60. No fanfare, no major announcements and no (á-la-Steve-Jobs) laser shows. In fact, Jeff Bezos was nowhere to be seen, just a new lower price on the Amazon homepage.

The Kindle, for those of you who’ve been under a rock [...]

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NY Times Business Hardcover Best Sellers - July 2009

New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – July 2009

Okay, how long can this thing last?

What will certainly be recorded as the most successful business book written in 2008, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the best seller rankings for the eighth consecutive month. With success like this, Outliers truly [...]

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NY Times Business Hardcover Best Sellers - June 2009

New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – June 2009

The big story from the June 2009 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list has to be that Gladwell’s Outliers continues to dominate the rankings month-in, month-out. As we wrote in January, Outliers could be one of the best books released in [...]

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NY Times Business Hardcover Best Sellers - May 2009

New York Times – Hardcover Business Best Sellers – May 2009

The May 2009 New York Times Hardcover Business Best Sellers list looks a lot like what we saw the last few months with two exceptions: tomes ranked at Numbers 3 and 5. Of course, those previous lists also included books ranked at Numbers [...]

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