Businesses stocking up on self-help books

McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

Last Updated: December 10, 2006

A leading direct supplier of book-based resources, 800-CEO-READ, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best sellers for November, plus descriptions:

1. "Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage" — What executives must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business.

2. "Millionaire Maker's Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing" — Learn the fastest ways to supercharge your portfolio and make the most of your assets.

3. "Tough Choices: A Memoir" — Carly Fiorina writes about hertriumphs and failures, her deepest fears and most painful confrontations — including her sudden and very public firing byHewlett-Packard's board of directors.

4. "Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge, and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever" — Jean Chatzky will help you take control of your money.

5. "The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything" — Leadership expert Stephen Covey uncovers why trust is vital in professional and personal relationships.

6. "On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense" — The distinct American future-mindedness, a sense of limitless possibility that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs.

7. "The Big Moo" — Thirty-three of the world's leading business thinkers discuss what makes a company remarkable.

8. "It's Your Ship" — Business managers will benefit from Michael Abrashoff's guiding belief that focus should be on empowering your people rather than on chain of command.

9. "Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth" — Follow this blueprint to turn your idea into the next multibillion dollar company.

10. "Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American" — The inspiring, authorized biography of the man who became the third employee at Intel and went on to lead the company through major changes in technology and explosive growth in business.