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Entertainment Weekly’s Best Books of 2008
Back of the Napkin named
Fast Company’s Best Business Books of 2008 and
Best Innovation & Design Books of 2008 by BusinessWeek
Canada’s national newspaper ranks BILLION DOLLAR LESSONS as the #1 Best Business Book of the Year!
Earth: The Sequel named one of Fast Company’s Best Business Books of 2008
strategy+business magazine names Best Business Books 2008
Canada’s national newspaper ranks BILLION DOLLAR LESSONS as the #1 Best Business Book of the Year!
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years was co-authored by Chunka Mui and Paul B. Carroll, both of whom are exclusively represented by BrightSight Group for their speaking engagements.
2000 teens in the the L.I.F.E program in Monterrey, Mexico, which is dedicated to bringing about positive change, have joined the Complaint Free movement.
And, students at Colegio Ingles, also in Monterrey, have taken the 21-Day Complaint Free challenge. The school has created banners and held special assemblies to help the kids embrace the power of giving up complaining.
BrightSight Group speaker and MSNBC commentator David Shuster will replace David Gregory as the host of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. From the article, “Nielsen Media Research consistently ranks the program third for the hour, behind Fox News Channel and CNN. In the politically charged month of November, the hour averaged 911,000 total viewers, far fewer than either CNN’s 1.5 million or Fox’s 2.1 million.” Read more….
BrightSight Group speakers Lucas Conley and Alex Frankel’s books have been named to strategy + business’s Best Business Books of 2008
Punching In was named as one of the best Human Capital books, Lucas’s OBD: Obsessive Branding Disorder made the Marketing category.
BrightSight Group speaker and author, Max Boot’s latest Wall St. Journal article appears here. “The essential problem in both Somalia and Pakistan is a failure of governance. The question is: What if anything can outside powers do to bring the rule of law to these troubled lands?”
Max Boot is the author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today
BrightSight Group speakers Dan Roam and Fred Krupp‘s books were both named to Fast Company Magazine’s Best Business Books of 2008 list.
Dan Roam is the author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Fred Krupp is the author of Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
BrightSight Group speaker and author Marc Freedman, President of Civic Ventures has been named as one of Fast Company’s Top Social Enterprises. From the article, “In the not-for-profit sector, the severe shortage of managers is estimated to grow to 640,000 by 2016. Among baby boomers, there’s increasing interest in “encore careers,” especially in not-for-profits. Civic Ventures wants to “help supply and demand find each other,” says Marc Freedman, president of the group, which is sponsoring this program to ease the transition for retiring Silicon Valley professionals.”
Marc is the author of Encore: Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
BrightSight Group and blogger Colin “No Impact Man” Beavan has announced the documentary about the No Impact Man project will be premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January. From Variety, “No Impact Man,” directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein, follows the affluent Manhattan Beavan family’s attempt to live a life of no-net environmental impact for one year.”
BrightSight Group speaker and author Amanda Ripley writes this week’s TIME cover story, “How to Fix America’s Schools”
Amanda is the author of The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why
