Weekend Reading – The Top 10 Books Corporate America Is Reading This Month

RISMEDIA, June 7, 2008-(MCT)-800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best sellers for May 2008.

1. “Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ” by Robert T. Kiyosaki; Business Plus.

In this latest book in the popular “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series, Kiyosaki lays out his five key principles of financial intelligence for all to understand.

2. “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything … in Business” by Dov L. Seidman; Wiley.

Sustainable advantage and enduring success-for both companies and the people who work for them-now lie in the realm of how, the new frontier of conduct.

3. “Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming” by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn; W. W. Norton.

Bold innovators and investors are reinventing energy and the ways we use it, and are poised to remake the world’s biggest business and save the planet-if America’s political leaders give them a fair chance to compete.

4. “Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want” by James Arthur Ray and Linda Sivertsen; Hyperion.

Harmonic Wealth encourages you to get real and get creative about how to achieve your goals … and then walks you step by step through the blueprint for their attainment.

5. “The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea” by Bob Burg and John David Mann; Portfolio.

This business parable is about an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success and is desperate to land a key sale at the end of a bad quarter. He seeks advice from the enigmatic Pindar, a legendary consultant referred to by his many devotees simply as the Chairman.

6. “Creating Success from the Inside Out: Develop the Focus and Strategy to Uncover the Life You Want” by Ephren W. Taylor; Wiley.

Shares the inspiring and motivational story of Ephren Taylor, one of the world’s youngest-ever CEOs of a publicly traded company.

7. “High Performance with High Integrity (Memo to the CEO)” by Ben W. Heineman Jr.; Harvard Business School Press.

Heineman argues that there is only one way for companies to avoid such failures: CEOs must create a culture of integrity through exemplary leadership, transparency, incentives, and processes, not just rules and penalties.

8. “Outsmart!: How to Do What Your Competitors Can’t (Hardcover)” by Jim Champy; FT Press.

This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting your competition.

9. “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff; Harvard Business School Press.

Groundswell provides practical advice on how to stay nimble and flexible in an ever-morphing digital world.

10. “How You Do … What You Do: Create Service Excellence That Wins Clients For Life” by Bob Livingston; McGraw-Hill.

Transform your approach to serving clients by strengthening how you do what you do.

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