The January 2006 issue of Inc. has an article entitled (Re)born to be wild by Donna Fenn. It is about Mike’s Famous, a Harley-Davidson dealership in New Castle, Delaware.
If you like the article, you might be interested in the book she wrote called Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become Leader of the Pack. The article was adapted from this Collins title that came out in December.
BusinessWeek ran a six page profile of C.K. Prahalad (sub. needed) in their January 23, 2005 issue.
Fact about the author:
Profession: University of Michigan professor, speaker, and consultant
Clients: Citibank, Phillips, Phillip Morris
Description of style from past client: “…mean, but it was effective.”
Books he has authored: Competing For The Future (1994 with Gary Hamel), Fortune At The Bottom of The Pyramid (2004), The Future of Competition (2004 with Venkat Ramaswamy)
What C.K. stands for: Coimbatore Krishnarao
In this interview, we talk with Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy.
Charles has been writing for Fast Company since issue number one. If you have read the magazine, you have undoubtedly read Charles Fishman.
This book started with a story in the December 2003 issue called The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know. You can’t have read it without remembering the story of Vlasic pickles. Charles decided to write the book after he found that there was so little available on Wal-Mart. With the effect this company now has on the American economy, he felt it important to find out more about this secretive giant.
You can read The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart in the January 2006 issue of Fast Company. It is a story adapted from the book about how Jim Weir, CEO of Simplicity, walked away from Wal-Mart.
This one runs almost an hour, but I promise you it is worth it.
mp3, 53:43, 49.2MB
Seth Godin launched a new ebook yesterday. It is called Flipping the Funnel.
It comes in three flavors:
Enjoy!
We did this last fall and thought you might enjoy another look at the season ahead.
So, here are the books we think you should be watching for in the first part of 2006.
Richard Pachter of the Miami Herald reviews three personal finance books to get your finances in order for the New Year.
The Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal asked tax expert Randy Blaustein for good books on the IRS and your taxes.
Blaustein also has a book called How to Do Business With the IRS: The Complete Guide for Tax Professionals (out of print).
What is it about Wisconsin, snow, and Mondays? We are a light covering this morning. Hope things are well where you are.
We have a great interview with Charles Fishman, author of the Wal-Mart Effect.
I also promised a list of what to look forward to for 2006 and we will get that up today.
With us getting away from the holidays, there seems to be more people writing about business books and their authors. You should see an increased frequency in posts this week.
Have a great week!
A while ago I posted my thoughts about a book called Chasing Daylight. Today’s New York Times reviews the book here. After thinking about the book for the past week, I continue to love the book. Check it out. Read it.
This past week I went to speak at an American Booksellers Association school on the subject of outside sales. This post is not about that. It is about the van ride to the hotel from LAX. The event was held at the Long Beach Hilton. I took a Shared Van to the hotel and the van had a couple of people to drop off before me. We came into Long Beach from the South going over a bridge. The ride over the bridge was really mind boggling. From the top of the bridge, where we sat for awhile, you could look in all directions and see nothing but shipping containers being moved around. Sacks five and six high sitting on the ground. Multiple trains moving North and East with containers stacked two high. Trucks looking like ants all over the place moving the containers. Cranes everywhere you looked.
Our local newspaper had a series of articles about globalization last year with a mind boggling picture from Hong Kong or some such place with shipping containers everywhere, but to see it live with my own eyes was really amazing. Anybody who thinks that their business, their livelihood will not be affected by the massive amounts of goods coming into the country, might be interested in some swamp land I own in Florida.
Coming this spring from Princeton University Press is a book I really liked called The Box which is the story of the way we have moved freight coming into our country for the last 100 years and how the shipping container, i.e. The Box changed the world.
