Books and Literature


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"There are lots of people who have fantasies about business and read books on how to start one. But reading books on how to do a business plan is kind of...  Read story

How to Write a Business Best-Seller

Harvey Mackay, author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive, tells about the marketing of his book.  Read story

A New Chapter for E-Books

After falling flat in the early 1990s, are digital books ready to fly? Entrepreneurs are betting that new technology is creating a legitimate market.  Read story

Written Any Good Books Lately?

More CEOs are putting pen to paper, turning the book into a new kind of business card.  Read story

Re: How to Get Your Book Published

Think you've got the making of the next blockbuster business best-seller? Take it from a pro: it's not as easy as it looks.  Read story

A Guide to Do-It-Yourself Publishing

Major publishing houses aren’t your only ticket to the bestseller list. These days, more and more self-publishing options are popping up.  Read story

Profit And Loss

Will Winans's book dig him out of debt?  Read story

PR Fairy Tales

Pitches disguised as children's books.  Read story

This Article Cannot Be Read Aloud

Getting a read on the advantages -- and limitations -- of E-books.  Read story

The Swifty Lazars Of Software

One of the hottest agents around these days is a fellow by the name of John Brockman. He does not represent movie stars, or rock singers, or professional ...  Read story

Great Expectations;

FEW EXECUTIVES WITH EVEN MODest egos could resist the temptation when Iacocca: An Autobiography reached the number one spot on best-seller lists in 1984. ...  Read story

Finding A Place Among The Best-sellers

Writing a best-selling nonfiction book isn't easy. Writing one, publishing it, and promoting it without any experience in publishing or marketing is even...  Read story

Funny Business

Company develops home-monitoring bracelets for prisoners based on an idea from a Spiderman comic book.  Read story

The World According To Me

What can you learn from a CEO's autobiography?  Read story

The Independent

Clint Greenleaf, the founder of Greenleaf Book Group, gives authors an alternative to the stodgy New York publishing industry. So what does it take to pen a ...  Read story

Getting Connected

Ordering information for 'Connected Executives' by Bernard DeKoven on making meetings more productive.  Read story

The Executive Club: Oprah Meets Operations

A bookclub for entrepreneurs that fires the mind.  Read story

Editor's Letter

A number of years ago, I followed a boyfriend down to a coastal town in Georgia, where, I recall, we were asked to be in a regatta (don't ask me why). Ou...  Read story

Think Twice About Following The Leader

Jack Falvey, like so many consultants, doesn't actually practice what he preaches ("Follow the Leader," Marketing, July). We are the value-added direct ma...  Read story

The Complete Legal Guide For Your Small Business, By Paul Adams. Ronald Press, 605 Third Ave., New York, Ny 10158; 218 Pp., $19.95.

Not at all "complete," the book deals exclusively with wording, adapting, negotiating, and modifying agreements for licenses, employees, purchase orders, ...  Read story

Take Me To Your Leader

Biographies of corporate leaders have long been a staple of the business bookshelf. But when you ask a handful of today's best-known management theoretici...  Read story

Book Value

Several new books purport to offer readers a more fulfilling life. The common theme? If you're not happy, it's your own damn fault.  Read story

Things I Can't Live Without: Todd McFarlane

What to get for the boy with lots of toys? Ask Todd McFarlane  Read story

Obituary: Hollywood's Book Guy Michael A. Viner

Love him or hate him, Michael Viner brought Hollywood to the audio book business  Read story

Counterrevolutionaries

I was almost in hysterics by the time I finished reading about Jerry Gorde. I'm writing a book on how entrepreneurs manage to punch themselves in the nose...  Read story

How To Pay Zero Taxes, By Jeff A. Schnepper. Addison-wesley, Reading, Ma 01867; 352 Pp., $6.95 Paperback.

For most taxpayers, there's probably no more unlikely promise than this book's title. Not all is wishful thinking, though. Professor Schnepper's ample ha...  Read story

Book Value: Managing Creativity

Inc. 's reviewer looks at several books on topics related to creativity in your business.  Read story

Where To Find Business Information, By David M. Brownstone And Gorton Carruth. John Wiley Sons, 605 Third Ave., New York, Ny 10158; 632 Pp., $45.

The second edition of this book of lists (with addresses and phone numbers) seems to include just about every state, federal, or foreign government and pr...  Read story

How I Did It: Clint Greenleaf, Chairman and CEO, Greenleaf Book Group

As told to Donna Fenn Industry: Media 2006 Inc. 500 Ranking: 224<...  Read story

How to Keep Customers (and Your Boss) Happy

Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got by Jay Abraham St Martin's Press, 2000, 376 pages, $24.95. O...  Read story

Contributors

Bernard Avishai's professional involvement with the auto industry includes selling car parts in college and covering Volkswagen as techno...  Read story

Not So Hard To Swallow

I loved John Case's review of Tom Peters's new book, Thriving on Chaos ("Hard to Swallow," Required Reading, November 1987). If the book did nothing more ...  Read story

Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind

Watch best-selling author and entrepreneur Seth Godin and management visionary Tom Peters in an in-depth discussion on the hottest trends impacting business ...  Read story

What Chief Executives Read

Profiles of successful entrepreneurs, their favorite books, and how reading helps them run their companies.  Read story

Three Ways to Pick Customers

A brief quote from a former CEO's book, 'The New Partnership,' that expains how they selected customers.  Read story

Someone Else's Money, By Michael Thomas. Simon Schuster, 1230 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10020; 511 Pp., $14.95.

The ex-investment banker author of best-selling Green Monday again turns to the realm of finance for lessons in ruthlessness -- a font that is undoubtedly...  Read story

Strategic Planning

Resources for strategically planning your company's future.  Read story

How I Did It: Stan Lee of Marvel Comics

The creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, and the X-Men talks about how he has stayed creative for more than 60 years.  Read story

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PRACTICAL CASH-SAVING IDEAS FROM INC. READERS  Read story

Write It Yourself

There's still a market for CEO-tells-all -- if you know how to approach it.  Read story