Gloria McDonough-Taub is Editor of Blogs at CNBC.com and the author of the CNBC.com blog, Bullish On Books. She reviews the books that come in to CNBC and works with the shows to decide which author has a good enough story to be featured on our site or on our air. Gloria has nearly 30 years of TV experience including local and national news, documentaries, talk shows and syndication. She's interviewed presidents, pundits, and pampered princesses. Now she just wants to kick back and read a good book.
No generation wants to engage more than Gen Y. For starters, they write over half of all online reviews. The online world is so entwined with the lives of Gen Yers I call it their second brain and third hand. Read More
Congratulations to Liaquat Ahamed author of "LORDS OF FINANCE: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World" for winning the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009. Read More
Publishers Weekly is its first ever "Top Ten Best Books of 2009." Each year the trade magazine selects its top 100 - but this year, PW dug deeper and picked 10 titles that it said stood out from the rest. Read More
All organizations have a reservoir of vast energy just waiting to be released. That is the task of the leader—to find ways to tap into that energy, conduct it and multiply it. In taking on that leadership task, remember three things. Read More
"Regardless of how lean and challenging the economic crunch may be, the most crucial foundation for successful workplace environments remains the same: Trust. In good times or bad, the common link to workplace performance is whether or not people are being told the truth. The less information they are provided, the more quickly trust will erode," says author Joe Takash. Read More
Ivanka Trump, the 27 year-old daughter of real estate mogul Donald Trump has taken full advantage of all her assets; being born into the lucky gene pool, access to money, power and players and now she’s out with a new book. Read More
Why would a prostitute turn down a $1 million offer? How did the auto industry actually save the environment (for a while)? And what does your birthday have to do with your dreams of playing in the MLB? It's time for Super Freakonomics. Read More
Good news for those of you who are waiting/hoping for more e-book choices - reports are out that Barnes & Noble plans on selling its own electronic reader possibly as soon as next month. Read More
If the founders of Google, Starbucks, or PayPal had stuck to their original business plans, we’d likely never have heard of them. Instead, they made radical changes to their initial models, became household names, and delivered huge returns for their founders and investors. Read More