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Fast Company's Best Books of 2005

BY David LidskyThu Jan 5, 2006 at 5:29 PM

Forgive us for blowing past the new year before getting up what may be the last best of 2005 list you'll read, but we hope it's worth the wait. We were hibernating with a collection of 1950's advertising satires and lost track of ...READ»

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The last self-help book you'll ever need

BY David LidskyThu Dec 22, 2005 at 4:42 PM

Dear Readers, We've had a good year. You trashed me when I said NBC's version of The Office was superior to the original, an assertion of mine that's proven to be true. You rallied with me when "Jack" radio took off. So it's my ...READ»

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Book Jacket Bingo

BY Heath RowWed Oct 5, 2005 at 6:02 PM

In today's Wall Street Journal Lee Gomes takes Ray Kurzweil to task for the narrow range of thinkers and doers who blurbed his new book, The Singularity Is Near. (Online subscription required by the Journal.) Rather than dig deeply ...READ»

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Notes from the Book Desk

Tue Sep 27, 2005 at 4:38 PM

Just received a copy of John C. Bogle's The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism (November, Yale University Press). The Pitch: "There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the ...READ»

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Books Worth a Look

BY Heath RowTue Sep 20, 2005 at 12:03 PM

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs have announced the finalists in this year's Book of the Year Award, which include: John Battelle, The Search Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, ...READ»

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Novel Ideas

BY Heath RowWed Sep 14, 2005 at 11:46 AM

In today's Wall Street Journal, Miyako Takebe contributes a piece on Japanese business novels (subscription required) and their growing popularity. Not only are the bestsellers about business, they're about monetary and fiscal policy ...READ»

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From the Fast Company Bookshelf

Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 3:59 PM

In this month's Readers Choice book club... Flip up your collar and go undercover to investigate white-collar unemployment; confront your inner introvert and address your bottom line along the way; and straighten up and fly right ...READ»

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Weasel Words

Mon Jul 18, 2005 at 1:23 PM

Don Watson, a former speech writer for Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, has a book coming out: Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak are Strangling Public Language. Don Watson's book and Web site ...READ»

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Readers Choice Voting Kicks Off!

Tue Jul 5, 2005 at 12:49 PM

Ah, nothing like a huge pile of mail after a long weekend. As you can probably guess, people send us a lot of business books in the hopes we'll feature them in the magazine (or right here on the blog). As I rifle through this month's ...READ»

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Summer Reading Program

BY Heath RowFri Jul 1, 2005 at 2:55 PM

Brad Feld has started a summer "book a day" diet. That's pretty ambitious! If you're interested in undertaking a similar program, Fast Company offers our ideas for Summer Reading for Smart Leaders, as well as the monthly Readers' ...READ»

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Book Work

Mon May 23, 2005 at 3:45 AM

A well-meaning friend gave me a copy of Gabrielo Zaid's "So Many Books" to read while on the promotion tour of my own book. "The reading of books is growing arithmetically; the writing of books is growing exponentially" Zaid's ...READ»

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Conspiracy of Fools

Mon Mar 14, 2005 at 10:05 AM

Kurt Eichenwald's new book on the Enron scandals, Conspiracy of Fools, is being published today. It's richly-detailed and highly illuminating. Eichenwald portrays the debacle as an explosive combination of crime and incompetence. He ...READ»

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Baby Steps

BY Jennifer ReingoldTue Feb 22, 2005 at 2:23 PM

My baby took her first steps yesterday. To see the uncertainty on her face dissolve into joy and then pride was one of the best moments of my life. My husband was home too. And that was the real miracle in it all. Sabrina was ...READ»

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FC's Best Business Books of 2004

BY David LidskyFri Dec 10, 2004 at 4:36 PM

This week has seen a number of publications put out their lists of best business books. Heck, even Forbes put out a list (Trump's How to Get Rich at #5? Please. Now we know what happens to your brain when you watch too much reality ...READ»

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Books Worth a Look

BY Heath RowWed Dec 8, 2004 at 12:53 PM

Strategy+Business, Booz Allen Hamilton's ever-useful management journal, has published a list of what contributors consider to be the best business books in the realms of strategy, innovation, leadership, and change this year. ...READ»

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Turning the Page

BY Heath RowWed Jan 21, 2004 at 11:37 AM

Todd S., the proprietor of A Penny For..., has started the Business Blog Book Tour. Inspired by a similar project, he's working with authors to organize online book tours. Over the course of a week, the featured author will ...READ»

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Guest Hosts: Get What You Want at Work

BY Heath RowFri Jan 9, 2004 at 6:00 PM

Next week, starting Monday, Jan. 12, two special guest hosts will join contributors to FC Now to help expand the conversation about career development and leadership. Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans co-authored January's ...READ»

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Book Club Hopping

BY Heath RowFri Jan 9, 2004 at 2:45 PM

We've added a new element to the Fast Company Book Club. If you participate in a discussion group and send us a report on the discussion, we'll consider it for inclusion in our new online collection of book reports. In mid-December, ...READ»

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Meeting Readers, Leaders

BY Heath RowWed Dec 10, 2003 at 6:11 PM

Just seven days from now, the first Fast Company Book Club Meetup will take place in hundreds of cities around the world. So far, hundreds of readers have joined to help pick the meetingplace -- and to gather with other readers and ...READ»

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Gray Matters: Seattle Insights

BY Heath RowMon Dec 8, 2003 at 9:35 AM

FC Now reader John Porcaro reports on a conversation and meeting with Bob Rosner, last week's FC Now guest host. His blog entries address workplace politics, change, innovation, and reorganization.READ»

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Gray Matters: To the Finish Line II

BY Heath RowFri Dec 5, 2003 at 1:12 PM

OK, time for my final push to the end of the book -- today's reading. The book begins to accelerate, perhaps giving relatively short shrift to a couple of key lessons -- and then ending on a decidedly dissatisfying note. I say that ...READ»

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Gray Matters: To the Finish Line

BY Heath RowFri Dec 5, 2003 at 12:59 PM

Like Bob, my schedule yesterday was rather intense working on the Fast 50, but last night late, I was able to sit down and finish the book. Here's what hit my radar reading the last 150 pages. Previously, Bob asked about sales tips. ...READ»

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Being a Target II

BY Heath RowFri Dec 5, 2003 at 12:46 PM

If you have access to a copy of Bob's book, check out p. xv -- and you'll see exactly what he's talking about.READ»

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Being a Target

Fri Dec 5, 2003 at 12:36 PM

I spoke yesterday to a group of executives. I put up a large dot and ask them what they saw. I got a dot, a hole, an eclipse -- all the regular responses. But one woman said "a target." How many of you feel like a target at work? ...READ»

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People Issues

Thu Dec 4, 2003 at 3:30 PM

Sorry for not contributing so far today, but I had a speech to hospital CFOs this morning and one this afternoon at Microsoft. The CFO talk was interesting and fits perfectly into the topic of the Seven Deadly Workplace Sins. I ...READ»

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