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Posted Nov. 23, 2011 4:48 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
strategy + business's yearly list of the best business books is always one of the finest. They do something really simple, but simply brilliant, having authors and thinkers who work in each category come in and curate the year's books with lengthy essays. This always makes it one of the most thorough and thoughtful lists put out every year, and this year is no exception.
First up, we have James O'Toole—co-author, with Warren Bennis and Daniel Goleman, of Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor—curating a new and timely category.
On Ethics and Aspirations, and The Good Company Revisited, James O'Toole chose:
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon, Rodale
- Management Reset: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness by Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley, with David Creelman, Jossey-Bass
- Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value by Michael Beer, Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren, Harvard Business Review Press
For Strategy Phil Rosenzweig takes a look at Asking the Right Questions. He chose:
- The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, Harvard Business Review Press
- Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World by Michael A. Cusumano, Oxford University Press
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt, Crown Business
The picks in Management, addressing the Battle for Management’s Future by David K. Hurst, were:
- Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business by Bob Lutz, Portfolio
- Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL by Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business Review Press
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
On Economics, David Warsh ponders... A Dismal Outlook?:
- The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World by Michael Spence, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick, Knopf
- Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster
In Marketing, books about Marketing Reenvisioned were picked by Catharine P. Taylor:
- We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World by Simon Mainwaring, Palgrave Macmillan
- Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant by David A. Aaker, Jossey-Bass
- The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness
On Leadership, and Learning to Lead the Old-Fashioned Way by Barbara Kellerman:
- Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, The Penguin Press
- Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris, Random House
- Decision Points by George W. Bush, Crown Publishing Group
And for Technology, writing about The Ecology of Technology, Michael Schrage chose:
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly, Viking
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, Simon & Schuster
- Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything Stephen Baker, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
And the pick of the litter, s+b's Top Shelf, was:
We've been following this list since 2003. You can browse past year's picks below.
The FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award Longlist
Posted Aug. 19, 2011 5:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
Understandably (looking at the award sponsors), the FT/Goldman Sachs Book Award always tends more toward macroeconomics, high finance and big business. But they always seem to pick well, and I always find books I feel the need to revisit when they announce their list.
Just in case you missed the announcement of the the award's longlist as I did, it is:
- Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster
- No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower, Faber & Faber
- Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, PublicAffairs
- Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG’s Corporate Suicide by Roddy Boyd, John Wiley and Sons
- Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press
- Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe & The Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das, FT Press
- The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin, Penguin Press
- The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World by Michael Spence, Farrar Straus Giroux
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt, Crown Business
- That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, Farrar Straus Giroux
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward Glaeser, Penguin Press
- The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques, Times Books
- Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril by Margaret Heffernan, Walker & Company
- Car Guys vs Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business by Bob Lutz, Portfolio
FT's Andrew Hill writes of the list:
If there is a theme that links most of the 14 titles on the longlist for the 2011 Business Book of the Year Award it is their authors’ quest to work out how and why companies, governments and their leaders fail—and how not to go wrong in future.
Thomas Friedman has won the award before so it will be interesting to see if he moves on to the shortlist, which will be announced in September. The award's past winners are:
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G Rajan, Yale University Press (2010)
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed, Penguin Press (2009)
- When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed A El-Erian, McGraw-Hill (2008)
- The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D Cohan, Doubleday Books (2007)
- China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future—And the Challenge for America by James Kynge, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2006)
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar Straus Giroux (2005)
We are currently accepting submissions for our awards. You can find the details and entry form at www.800ceoread.com/bookawards. And for our past winners, head on over to our awards page.
