Amazon.co.uk Booklist by Paula Byerly Croxon

Background: In September 2001, Amazon.co.uk took over administration of Waterstone’s Online. Just prior to leaving my job there as Managing Editor, I wrote a number of different “Amazon-style” type e-newsletters and Web page content for the new site. This is an example of one of those pieces of work.

Zen Business: Top Ten Business Spirituality Bestsellers

Teaser:

More and more companies are beginning to think beyond the bottom line on their employee’s personal development and the impact work practices have on society. Why else would books like Seven Habits of Highly Effective People populate bestseller lists?

Introduction:

A few short years ago, the idea that a corporation was more that a service vehicle to stockholders would have you laughed out of the boardroom. Call it millennium angst, the ageing of the Baby Boom generation or zen enlightenment, but managers of today’s companies are devouring books on bringing spiritual matters into the workplace. The top ten that leaders pick up are listed below.

Who moved my cheese? by Spencer Johnson	7 habits of highly effective people by Steven R. Covey
Calm at Work by Paul Wilson	Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff at Work by Richard Carlson
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason	What you’ll never learn on the Internet by Mark H. McCormack
Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman	Introducing NLP by Joseph O’Connor and John Seymour
Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins	Funky Business by Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordstrom