Helpful Key Themes of Best Business Books

Jack Covert, Executive, 800-CEO-READ; Co-author, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time

Todd Sattersen, Executive, 800-CEO-READ; Co-author, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time

We marvel at those who succeed but don’t always focus on what they overcame, including challenges similar to our own: living and managing without purpose, data and circumstances clouding our judgment, fear blocking action, change paralyzing us, and talking substituting for listening. How can we learn to do better? Start with a good business book, say Covert and Sattersten, who have surveyed the best of them.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on February 3, 2009.

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