Publishers Are Not Your Friends – Part II: Missed The Mark
The intention of my essay Publisher Are Not Your Friends was to illuminate, from the author’s perspective, the highly emotional process of having a book published. Give authors some warning of the...
View ArticleThree Great Solutions
Business books are solutions looking for people with problems. Take a look at these three new releases: From Bud to Boss: The Secrets To A Successful Transition To Remarkable Leadership by Kevin...
View ArticleJust Do It
Seth Godin has been making the same plea in the last several books. “We Need You To Lead Us” was the subtitle of Tribes. Using reverse-psychology, Linchpin asked “Are You Indispensable?” to prod us...
View ArticleLet Business Books Get Shorter
“Fact: If all business books were edited to be 80% shorter, there’d be absolutely no adverse effect on civilization.” -@counternotion I see a day soon when there will be peace between business book...
View ArticleThe Two Narratives of The Book
Sam Anderson wrote a piece for New York Times Magazine that ran over the weekend called ‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ about the importance of marginalina to books. Anderson...
View ArticleIdea Arena Podcast – TouchPoints Interview with Mette Norgaard
In this interview, I talked with Mette Norgaard, co-author with Doug Conant of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Connections in the Smallest of Moments. Leadership is often mistaken as grandiose visions...
View ArticleIdea Arena Podcast – The Big Thirst Interview with Charles Fishman
In this interview, I talk with Charles Fishman, the author of The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. Fishman, a longtime writer for Fast Company Magazine and the author of The...
View ArticleGo Author, Go
On the front page of the Sunday New York Times this week is an article titled “In E-book Era, Rule for Writers Is Type Faster!” The piece focuses on the additional work already busy authors are doing...
View ArticleMy Favorite Business Books of 2012
As the year comes to a close, I have been thinking hard about what books influenced me this year. In 2012, I read fewer books than in past years and that is why I called these books my favorites, not...
View ArticleIt’s All In The Frame
Both of these books appeared in my mailbox this week. Both of these books are about solving similar problems–about completion and what keeps us from getting there. The promised solutions though are...
View ArticleWhat I Read – January 2011
I spend an enormous amount of time reading. This is something that I already knew, but I decided to track my reading more closely as a sort of New Year’s resolution. First, I want to better see the...
View ArticleTime Stamp Replaces Page Number
I had been wondering lately if we needed a different way to quantify the length of a book given the variability of the digital experience. There is no way really to tell how long a book is going to be...
View ArticleEvery Book Is A Start-Up
Most of time, we focus on the book as communication device and what the book has to do to be effective. It’s the answering of What?, So What?, Now What? that every great business book must do. What...
View ArticlePublishers Are Not Your Friends
To follow on about my post yesterday about books as startups, we could similarly take Steve Blank’s recent post titled VC’s Are Not Your Friends and do a similar word swap with exchanging “venture...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Business Books of 2010
2010 had several books worthy of your attention. Chances are you have only read one or two of these and I would encourage you to go back and pick up one or two more. Let’s start with a book that was...
View Article#YearInReview
My year started with some big questions about what was next and in May, a trip to Oregon answered many of those questions. Seth started a shipping meme yesterday. Here is a list of what I shipped, a...
View ArticleTrends in Publishing for 2011
JWT has a interesting Slideshare presentation called 100 Things to Watch in 2011. There are a number of their points that could relate back to the world of business book publishing. #14 – Breaking the...
View ArticleHow Authors Can Use Twitter To Help Others
Chris Brogan wrote this week about using Twitter as a real-time prospecting tool as an author. In his case, he was looking for people who were at Barnes & Noble and might be interested in his book...
View ArticleThe Very Best Business Books in 2010: A Compiled List
With 800-CEO-READ’s announcement of Rework as their Business Book of The Year, we can officially close out the year that was 2010. To try and make sense of all the year-end selections various sources...
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