One reading of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography suggests the key to success is being a jerk, a piece of advice that some bosses have taken too literally. But science is on the side of nice bosses. It has found mean bosses lead to lower worker satisfaction, which in turn leads to worse financial performance.
The president attended the off-the-record dinner for the first time since 2009 this weekend, Michael Vick is struggling to land a New York Fashion Week invitation, and Robert Gibbs, and the Weinstein Brothers are planning a star-studded Giants pep rally.
Today in books: Bill Clinton's five favorite books are heavy reading, Michael Chabon says publishers are getting an unfair share of e-book profits, and The New York Times assembles "a North Korea reading list."
Today in books: The New York Daily News tips its toe into the world of blog blogging with a picture of a semi-nude Truman Capote, Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography was Amazon's top-selling book of 2011, and "China's Amazon" is going to start selling e-books.
Allowing some time for the Steve Jobs dust to settle, Malcolm Gladwell in this week's New Yorker offers his insight on the Walter Isaacson biography of the late Apple CEO, proving once and for all that Jobs was crazy.
In the first week of sales, George W. Bush's book Decision Points sold better than Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography.
Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography tops the digital and print sales charts, JRR Tolkien's newly-unearthed illustrations for The Hobbit will be seen for the first time, and Roland Emmerich's new Shakespeare authorship thriller gets fact-checked.
Steve Jobs waited nine months to get surgery for the pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him, saying it was too invasive, a decision he later told his biographer he regretted.
Also: Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography traces the origins of his black turtleneck
The title "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" has been scrapped for just "Steve Jobs"
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