Employment law attorney Michael Maslanka comments on the book Send: Why People Email so Badly and How to Do It Better by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, highlighting the book’s advice on making business e-mail more personal.
I just finished an interesting book, Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better, Revised [...]

The following is a list of the bestselling paperback business books as ranked by the New York Times on November 24.
1. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shales. A reinterpretation of the New Deal and the Great Depres­sion.
2. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi [...]

HR manager Paul Knoch reviews the book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. The review counts this business fiction as a quick, informative read that would be of use to almost any HR practitioner who must work with a team of employees.

Have you ever wondered why your team of smart, competent, [...]

Amazon.com updates its list of the bestselling business books every hour. Here is a snapshot of what is hot right now, this Monday morning, November 17, in the “Management and Leadership” category.
1. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
You probably don’t realize it, but life is a series of [...]

BusinessWeek ranks business books that are the most recent bestsellers and provides a short summary.
1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman. New York Times columnist Friedman offers an urgent plea to unleash U.S. creativity—and capitalism—on the challenges of energy, climate change, [...]

HR practicioner Paul Knoch reviews the books Conspiracy Of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald and Disney War by James Stewart . The review examines both books’ tales of “corporate culture gone awry” and argues that they should be lessons to HR.

Both Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald and Disney War by James Stewart [...]

The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on November 3.
1. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. The life of Warren Buffett.
2. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America by Thomas [...]