MEGO: My Eyes Glaze Over

The Great Business Book List

Sep 13, 2009 Books, Social Media

I made fun of the Indigo sign, but I am a big fan of the book store. Any book store. But, I have a soft spot for Chapters-Indigo since I spend over three years working there while I went to university. It doesn’t hurt that I have an addiction to books.  I love fiction (the type you can imagine the characters so vividly that even years later you can tell a friend about the novel); and the odd summer junk novel (usually crime / mystery novels like Kathy Reich), I have also been known to read a thoughtful history book or gripping book on pop culture.  But, my biggest fixation is my collection of business books. I love books on marketing, social media, Internet culture, management….and I believe I own more than I have actually read.  It is always my intention to read, but I also read about 200 blogs.

That said here are some of my recommendations for great business books (chances are I own them if you need a loaner)

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t – Jim Collins
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – Don Tapscott
• Growing Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World  – Don Tapscott
• Purple Cow: Transform you Business by Being Remarkable – Seth Godin
• Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends – Seth Godin
• A Whole New Mind – Daniel Pink
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
• Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder  – David Weinberger
• Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual – Locke, Weinberger,
• The Tipping Point: How Little things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking  – Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
• First, Break all the Rules – Markus Buckingham
• The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
• Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky
• Citizen Marketers: When People are the Message – Ben Mcconnell

These are just a few of the ones I haven’t yet read but own:

• Tribes – Seth Godin
• Six Pixels of Separation – Mitch Joel
• Truth Agents – Chris Brogan & Julian Smith
• Meatball Sundae – Seth Godin
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price – Chris Anderson
• Twitterville – Shel Israel (getting this on Tuesday)

And, if you are looking for gift ideas these are books that I would like (and may buy on a whim while in a bookstore)

• Whuffie Factor – Tara Hunt
• New Rules of Marketing: Marketing on the Web – Tamar Weinberg
• Art of Community – Jano Bacon
• Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business – Erik Qualman

Now, perhaps time for a trip to my favorite book store…

Do you have any favorites I missed?

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