Love Is the Killer App

A lovecat, in Tim Sanders's vocabulary, is someone both nice and smart who does well at work and in life. Becoming one, he argues, means sharing three intangibles. The first is knowledge, built from the many books he urges readers to absorb. The second is a network of friends and contacts, which he shows how to grow and nurture, and the third is compassion, the human warmth he says can be shown openly at the office. Sanders promises that this turns a person into a source of insight for colleagues, and his message is that nice guys do not finish last.

Radio host Ken Coleman listed it among the books that most shaped his life and work.