Business Execs Round Out Their Year by Naming 'What Got You Here Won't Get You There' Best Biz Book of 2007

CONCORDVILLE, Pa., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- This nation's top consultant to CEOs now has another title under his belt. Today Soundview Executive Book Summaries (http://www.summary.com), the global leader in business book summaries, announced that its subscribers have chosen Marshall Goldsmith's bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There to receive the fifth annual Harold Longman Award for Best Business Book of 2007 (http://www.summary.com/cgi-bin/Soundview.storefront/EN/Catalog/1315?id=1280). The readers' choice award honors the memory of Harold Longman, Soundview's inaugural editor-in-chief, who loved and excelled in the world of books and words.

"For five years, our readers have chosen the one book that best represents the current business mindset, and this year they did not disappoint," says Rebecca Clement, publisher of Soundview Executive Book Summaries. "Our subscribers always gravitate towards leadership books, so it was no surprise when they chose What Got You Here Won't Get You There as their overwhelming favorite. Marshall Goldsmith's insight into personal success has inspired so many top executives over the years, and we're thrilled to honor him with this prestigious award."

What Got You Here Won't Get You There discusses how leaders need to break free from the habits that may have brought them success, in order to move forward to even greater success in the future. What Got You Here Won't Get You There was chosen from a list of seven books nominated by Soundview's editorial staff. The nominated titles were selected from the 30 best business books summarized by Soundview's editors in 2007.

The Harold Longman Award was established in 2003. Longman shaped many of Soundview's current practices, and created the company's unique structure for summarizing the year's 30 best business books. Longman retired in the mid 1980s, after several stints in advertising and marketing. He returned to book writing and had not quite finished a manuscript on remarkable old people when he succumbed to lung cancer in 1989 at age 75.

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