Do stronger interpersonal relationships make for better colleagues? How has the business book genre shifted in the last 30 years? How has the advent of technology changed things for authors and publishers? In this episode, Sally Haldorson, the general manager of 800-CEO-READ, brings her expert knowledge on the business book field to discuss these questions and many more as we delve into the changing work culture that is taking place in America right now.  

The people who do the work are now in the driver’s seat and that is changing business and changing corporations for the better. – Sally Haldorson

Takeaways

We began this episode discussing the more humanistic approach that has been implemented in business since the 1980’s, and how we’ve grown increasingly accepting in embracing the human aspect of business. Sally discussed whether she feels that this shift makes for better colleagues and employees. Sally then went on to talk about how this has been mirrored in the business book world through books such as ‘Solve for Happy’. Later in this episode we moved on to discuss how technology has affected business and the pushback that has occurred to non-face to face connections and social media. Sally spoke about how this technology shift has affected both publishers and authors. Sally finished off by recommending some business books that she feels people should read and we spoke about the idea of empowerment.

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Over the past 30 years there has been a huge shift in business culture which has seen a move away from strict, regimented control to giving more power back to the workers themselves and creating a more personable, empathetic workplace environment. Inherently, empathy makes us better people and empathy allows us to do better work and this has been realised by businesses. This has been partially driven by a change in the business book genre which has seen an increase in books about self-help, personal development,