10 Hot New Books from Book Rapper'd Authors

10 Hot New Books from Book Rapper'd Authors
Many of the authors of books we’ve rapped are serial offenders. They keep writing more books! So, here’s a list of new books from the authors of ones we’ve covered in previous Book Rapper issues. Note, the dates… a couple are so hot they haven’t been released just yet. Check the due dates. Note: I haven’t read any of these books. I figure if I liked their last one, these might be pretty good too… If you’ve read them, leave a comment with your thoughts.
Another note: All book links are non-affiliate links to Amazon.

Seth Godin - Linchpin
Previous Book: Meatball Sundae
Book Rapper issue: Marketing How-Now
New Book: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Available: January 26, 2010.






Joseph Jaffe – Flip the Funnel
Previous Book: Join the Conversation
Book Rapper issue: Talk With Me
New Book: Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones
Available: February 8, 2010





Daniel Pink – Drive
Previous Book: A Whole New Mind
Book Rapper issue: How to Think Right
New Book: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Available: Now!





Malcolm Gladwell – What the Dog Saw
Previous Book: Outliers
Book Rapper Issue: Anti-Self-Help
New Book: What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures
Available: Now!




Ori Brafman – Sway
Previous Book: with Rod A. Beckstrom; The Starfish and the Spider
Book Rapper issue: Leaderful
New Book: with his brother Rom Brafman; Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behaviour
Available: Now!




Chris Anderson – Free
Previous Book: The Long Tail
Book Rapper issue: Make Money From Niches
New Book: Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Available: Now!





Timothy Ferriss – The Four Hour Work Week (Expanded)
Previous Book: The Four Hour Work Week
Book Rapper issue: The Four Hour JOLT!
New Book: The Four Hour Work Week – Expanded Edition – with 100 additional idea filled pages.
Available: Now!



Chip and Dan Heath - Switch
Previous Book: Made to Stick
Book Rapper issue: The Sticking Point
New Book: Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
Available: February 16, 2010




Michael A Banks – On the Way to the Web
Previous Book: Blogging Heroes
Book Rapper issue: We Blog
New Book: On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
Available: Now!




Barry Libert – Barack Inc
Previous Book: with Jon Spector, We Are Smarter Than Me
Book Rapper issue: The Bees Wees
New Book: with Rick Faulk, Barack, Inc.: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign
Available: Now!



If you've read any of these books, add a comment and tell us what you think...

How to Share Book Rapper with your Audience

How to Share Book Rapper Issues with your Audience
Following from my previous post and the launch of our CC license, plus a prompt from Matt Hern, here's all of the Book Rapper issues thus far in one easy-to-share blog post.






















































PS: Thanks to James Tuckerman of Anthill for putting me onto Issuu.com

Made to Stick and the Sticking Point - Update

The Made to Stick book has become a classic.

I know that because it now has it’s own Wikipeda page.

Now, that’s an interesting measure of SUCCEs…

Frank Sinatra sang about New York, ‘If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere’.

Perhaps, Wikipedia has now replaced New York as the centre of the world?

Digital beats physical?

So… what’s the update?

No real news from Chip and Heath.

Do they have another book in them? There’s no releases or signs as yet.

They’re still blogging away, though.

They do have some new free resources on their site.

You’ll need to sign up to get them.

They’re a rework of the original book applied to new situations. Like, presentations, job interviews, teaching…

They’re short from 1 to 13 pages plus some audio.

Unfortunately, the pdfs show that Chip and Heath have yet to step out of words and into visuals.

Fingers crossed, this could be their next book…

A good bonus for them…

Made to Stick has just been included in Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten’s The 100 Best Business Books Of All Time.

I haven’t seen the book and they are the leaders of 800-CEO-READ so they should know what they’re talking about.

Here’s their Top 100 list.

Let me know what you think about the books on their list… Which books would you add?

As for the content of Made to Stick… Ideas are still the ONLY thing that sells!

Nothing new there… and the book’s as important as ever!

I say, read the Book Rapper issue Sticking Point or buy the book.

Made to Stick: How to Live Forever

* Based upon your feedback, my posts have been getting a bit long. So, I'll split the updates into two. The first will be the context piece from the Book Rapper issue. Then I'll follow this with the update so we're all on the same page.

The Book: Made to Stick
Chip and Dan Heath
Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Take Hold and Others Come Unstuck
Random House; London; 2007.

The Context: How to Live Forever

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) depicts the journey of Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe) from charismatic war-time army hero, to emotionally bankrupt (Spanish!) slave, to all-conquering Gladiator.

Maximus, with charisma and courage restored, takes on and annihilates his nemesis Emperor Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix).

The movie is memorable for several reasons, not the least of which is Russ’s riveting Oscar winning performance.

There is also the opening finger-peeping, visceral battle scene in distant Germania, and the scintillating set design of 180 AD Rome.

In one air-sucking scene, barbarian gladiators arrive at the foot of the Coliseum standing agog at the sheer scale of it.

This puts the magnificence of Rome into a useful historical context because it highlights a profound fictional conversation in the movie.

It’s a very short conversation about ten minutes into the film; it’s a conversation that probably went ‘unheard’ by most of the audience.

Marcus Aurelius, the Emperor of Rome (Richard Harris) is talking to Maximus (our Russ). He expresses his concerns over the future of Rome. He starts with the question ‘What is Rome?’ and then says…

“There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile and I fear that it will not survive the winter.”

Two millennium ago, Rome was more than a vibrant city, it was an empire that stretched around the Mediterranean Sea. This was at the heart of Marcus Aurelius’ concern.

Today, the remnants of this Idea are still with us, the physical element is a city paved with history and inhabited by a couple of million people. Yet the cultural legacy lives on in more subtle and more invisible ways.

From today’s standpoint, to imagine Rome as a mere Idea, and one so fragile that it could vanish, is as astonishing as the Coliseum was to the Gladiators.

Rome was – in around 180AD - an Idea!

Just an Idea in the mind and heart of the passionate Emperor of this strife-torn, unstable settlement.

Now, here’s the Point. Doesn’t everything start out as a fragile idea, a mere fleeting thought?

An idea is at the core of everything – yes, everything - that was ever created.

Every man-made concept, conversation or thing started as a fleeting thought in someone’s head.

Yet, the power of Rome, as an idea that has flourished for 2000 years, shows that ideas can be immortal.

And this, is where Made to Stick finds its place.

It shows how to take your passing fancy and turn it into your ‘Rome’ – an idea that grows into physical form and can live through the ages – or at least until you’re onto your next project.

How do you take your fleeting fancy and translate it into an Idea that’s long lived, or at least, makes a difference to your here and now?

Sticky Ideas are fundamental to everything we all do.

Business itself is a powerful Idea; an Idea that at some Point in pre-history started as a fanciful thought in someone’s head.

Every minor and major business started in the same way.

Someone had a thought and they framed it in a way that stuck. The raw power of an Idea is it’s potential for immortality.


Can you imagine having an idea that lived forever?

Here’s how...

First you need a thought – a little gem that you think up or, nick from someone else.

Next, you add flesh to your skeletal thought. Until Make It Stick – this may have been hit and miss / pot luck / touch and go. You perform microsurgery on that embryonic Idea to test its core purity – it’s simplicity.

When, and only when, it passes the SUCCESs test, you Innovate (apply it) and give your Idea a life of it’s own in the hearts and minds of others.

We’re all in the business of selling.

Yet, have you ever wondered precisely what it is that you’re selling?

The correct answer is that you’re selling an Idea.

We’re all in the business of Ideas because, ultimately, the idea is what is sold. We don’t buy physical things or strategies or concepts; we buy an Idea. We buy the idea of what that thing can do for us.

Make It Stick could be renamed “How to Sell Ideas”.

Ultimately, that’s what’s up for sale - an Idea - no matter what the product.

We attempt to enrol others into an Idea so that we can move it from its fragile, embryonic state to a more substantial form; a product from which we can profit.

When we set out to sell an Idea, the first sale we need to make is to ourselves.

So, how do you decide if your idea is worth buying? How do you decide if it will work? You trust your gut, because you’re the ultimate consumer; and/or you TWIST your idea because The ‘Will It Stick’ Test works!

Shared Ideas are the building blocks of Life; sound Ideas are the corner stones of our Economy; Sticky Ideas are the mortar of your economic SUCCESs.

What’s your Rome? What’s your big Idea – every day, everywhere - worthy of immortality?