Much like Hershey did in Pennsylvania or Corning did in New York, Google is quietly assembling the makings of a company town near HQ in Mountain View, Calif. The new Google-works will include employee housing and add another 1.2 million square feet to the company's office space.
Books@DailyFinance: An Irreverent Guide to Being a Better Boss
7:00 AM 8/21/2010
Stanford B-school professor Bob Sutton's The No Asshole Rule helped readers deal with office bullies. His follow-up, Good Boss, Bad Boss, gives managers lively advice on how to avoid being "bossholes".
Books@Daily Finance: The Rise and Rise of the World's Greatest Tea Mogul
10:00 AM 7/10/2010
Everyone knows the English adore their tea, but why is that? This stimulating and informative biography of the founder of Lipton Tea offers fresh insights and much more.
Books@DailyFinance: Bush, Blair, and Bartiromo Coming This Fall
11:00 AM 5/30/2010
Here's an early peak at the books everyone will be talking about in the autumn. There are works by George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Maria Bartiromo, among many others, in what promises to be a busy publishing season.
Books@DailyFinance: The World According to an Incurable Optimist
9:00 AM 5/22/2010
A former science editor for The Economist sets out to prove that innovation and free trade have historically brought far more good to the globe than harm.
In his new book, Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World, BoingBoing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder shows us how to build a chicken coop -- and maybe save our souls in the process.
Books@DailyFinance: Turning Scrap into Gold in the Far East
9:00 AM 5/7/2010
After failing to land a Wall Street job, Stephen Greer sought his fortune in China and found it in the business of scrap metal. He recounts his experiences, and shares some of his hard-won knowledge about developing-world capitalism, in his book "Starting From Scrap: An Entrepreneurial Success Story."
In his new book, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, Richard Florida looks for the silver lining inside the cloud of our current economic malaise. His optimistic view includes high-speed trains, fewer suburbs, and what he calls "plug-and-play housing." But his vision may lack space for friends, family and roots.
Throughout the pages of Walter Kiechel III's The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World, the author tells how one management fad succeeded since the mid-1960s. In doing so, Kiechel paints a picture of a culture where ideas, more than deeds, are the central product.
Books@DailyFinance: It's Time Again for Books About Buffett
12:00 PM 4/9/2010
Each year, around the time of Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, new books about Oracle of Omaha appear. Among this year's are Buffett: Beyond Value and Buffett's Bites. Both draw heavily on his words, but don't say much that's new.
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