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JULY 9, 2007
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List 1. STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0 By Tom Rath (Gallup Press — $19.95) Assess your talents and put them into practice. Last month: 4, Months on list: 4 2. THE BLACK SWAN By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House — $26.95) Improbable and earthshaking events are in fact inevitable, says a former "mathematical trader." Last month: 7, Months on list: 2 3. WHERE HAVE ALL THE LEADERS GONE? By Lee Iacocca (Scribner — $25) The ex-chief of Chrysler on America's failings and the qualities that make leaders great. Last month: 2, Months on list: 2 4. THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK By Timothy Ferriss (Crown — $19.95) Defining your dreams and cutting loose from work. Last month: —, Months on list: 1 5. WOMEN & MONEY By Suze Orman (Spiegel & Grau — $24.95) Inspirational prose and practical tools to help females with their finances. Last month: 1, Months on list: 4 6. THE DIP By Seth Godin (Portfolio — $12.95) How to escape dead ends—and stay motivated and focused on what really matters. Last month: —, Months on list: 1 7. THE NO ASSHOLE RULE By Robert I. Sutton (Warner Business — $22.99) Banning abusive folks from corporate ranks. Last month: 6, Months on list: 3 8. JEFFREY GITOMER'S LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF GETTING YOUR WAY By Jeffrey Gitomer (FT Press — $19.99) The power of persuasion. Last month: 8, Months on list: 2 9. THE LITTLE BOOK OF COMMONSENSE INVESTING By John C. Bogle (Wiley — $19.95) Why indexing is the best investment strategy. Last month: 5, Months on list: 3 10. OUR ICEBERG IS MELTING By John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber (St. Martin's — $19.95) A global-warming fable offers eight lessons on coping with change. Last month: 13, Months on list: 8 11. GO PUT YOUR STRENGTHS TO WORK By Marcus Buckingham (Free Press — $30) Ways to identify your assets and reap the rewards you're due. Last month: 3, Months on list: 3 12. MADE TO STICK By Chip Heath, Dan Heath (Random House — $24.95) An examination of why some ideas gain traction while others fade from view. Last month: 9, Months on list: 5 13. THE EXCEPTIONAL PRESENTER By Timothy J. Koegel (Greenleaf Book Group — $21.95) Strengthening your speaking and media skills. Last month: —, Months on list: 1 14. ONE MINUTE MANAGER By Kenneth Blanchard, PhD, Spencer Johnson, M.D. (HarperCollins — $21.95) Management techniques in story form. Last month: —, Months on list: 19 15. THE FRED FACTOR By Mark Sanborn (Currency/Doubleday — $14.95) Bring creativity to your work and life. Last month: —, Months on list: 22 1. BLINK By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books — $15.99) Snap judgments deserve careful consideration. Last month: 1, Months on list: 3 2. GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS By Jim Collins (Collins — $11.95) A primer on how noncorporate organizations can excel. Last month: 2, Months on list: 18 3. THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH By Wallace D. Wattles (Tarcher — $10) "Wealth attraction" explained in a book first published in 1910. Last month: 3, Months on list: 2 4. THE MONEY BOOK FOR THE YOUNG, FABULOUS & BROKE By Suze Orman (Riverhead — $16) Career plans, etc. Last month: 4, Months on list: 3 5. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2007 By Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press — $17.95) The enduring job-search bible. Last month: 5, Months on list: 10 6. CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (McGraw-Hill — $16.95) How to handle those all-important talks. Last month: 7, Months on list: 16 7. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House — $14.95) Uncertainty and luck in daily life. Last month: —, Months on list: 3 8. A GUIDE TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE By Project Management Institute (PMI Publications — $49.95) Delivering results. Last month: 8, Months on list: 16 9. A WHOLE NEW MIND By Daniel H. Pink (Riverhead — $15) The future belongs to creative "right-brain thinkers," says a former White House speechwriter. Last month: 13, Months on list: 4 10. STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS By Daniel Gilbert (Vintage — $14.95) A psychologist tells why people wrongly predict just what will make them happy. Last month: —, Months on list: 1 11. LEADERSHIP AND SELF-DECEPTION By The Arbinger Institute (Berrett-Koehler — $14.95) A leader's motivation is what matters, says this business fable. Last month: 15, Months on list: 11 12. HOW TO WIN FRIENDS & INFLUENCE PEOPLE By Dale Carnegie (Pocket Books — $14) The classic networking guidebook. Last month: —, Months on list: 4 13. THE GIRL'S GUIDE TO BEING A BOSS (WITHOUT BEING A BITCH) By Caitlin Friedman, Kimberly Yorio (Broadway — $12.95) Navigating the shoals of office life. Last month: —, Months on list: 1 14. START LATE FINISH RICH By David Bach (Broadway — $14.95) Strategies and tactics for baby boomers nearing the age of retirement. Last month: 9, Months on list: 5 15. THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE By David Bach (Broadway — $12.95) Put your investment program on autopilot. Last month: 12, Months on list: 16 GOOD TO GREAT By Jim Collins (HarperBusiness — $27.50) NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS By Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (Free Press — $30) FREAKONOMICS By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow — $27.95) THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM By Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass — $22.95) WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? By Spencer Johnson (Putnam — $19.95) THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SELLING By Jeffrey Gitomer (Bard Press — $19.95) THE WORLD IS FLAT By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux — $30) FISH By Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen (Hyperion — $19.95) THE TIPPING POINT By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay — $14.95) RICH DAD, POOR DAD By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Warner — $16.95) GETTING THINGS DONE By David Allen (Penguin — $15) GETTING TO YES By Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton (Penguin — $15) THE E-MYTH REVISITED By Michael E. Gerber (HarperBusiness — $16) THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE By Stephen R. Covey (Free Press — $15) THE 48 LAWS OF POWER By Robert Greene (Penguin — $18) THINK AND GROW RICH By Napoleon Hill (Ballantine — $7.99)) BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers. Well over 1,000 retail outlets nationwide are represented. Current rankings are based on a weighted analysis of unit sales in May. Titles that have been on the Best-Seller List for more than two years appear as Long-Running Best-Sellers.  Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  Add BusinessWeek news to your Web site with our headline feed. Click to buy an e-print or reprint of a BusinessWeek or BusinessWeek Online story or video. To subscribe online to BusinessWeek magazine, please click here. Learn more, go to the BusinessWeekOnline home page  | | |
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