HOT READS FOR THE PRACTIONER
Title:Â 800-CEO-Read
Competency: self-development
Who benefits: those in a personal growth mode
Consultant Usage: handy, quick reference site
What’s it about? Today’s post is quite short. Made me wonder if one can tweet on a Blog? Ah, probably not worth getting myself all in a dither.
Anyway, I came across a website (see link above) that posts monthly best selling business books. It took me a while to figure out, but the list is composed of only books sold by the website.
What I found most interesting was that more than two-thirds of the top 25 books fall into the self-help category. Is this because of the nature of the website or the current needs of business leaders and professions? Or both?
The number one best seller for May is How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything … in Business (and in Life). It is about leadership and corporate culture with a moral purpose, a la Covey books. Certainly this could be a sign of the times. The descrition of the book wasn’t enough to motivate me to read it.
Curiosity got the better of me and I compared their list to Amazon.com’s top 25.  Number one best seller at Amazon is Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. Amazon has more financially oriented books, with less than 50% falling into the self-help category. Amazon also has a very loose definition of “business books†(i.e. Three Cups of Tea – an inspirational book, but in the business category?)
Just a little more research for comparison: The New York Times non-fiction best sellers  included Outliers, but was led by biographies of great-modern-Americans-who-just-happen-to-be-talking-heads-or-radio-show-hosts (3 of top 7).Â
Well, this posting was double the length of a tweet, but if you check out these lists maybe you can find a treat. Sweet.
Catch you later.
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Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.
