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Posted Dec. 28, 2010 10:21 a.m. by sally-haldorson
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Business book expert (and former president of 800-CEO-READ) Todd Sattersten has picked his top 10 business books of the year. We agree heartily with his list--a mix of big idea books and practical methodology--and think that you can't go wrong choosing any of these fine books as a blueprint for your business goals in 2011.
Todd's Top 10:
Drive by Dan Pink
Switch by Chip and Dan Heath
Linchpin by Seth Godin
Rafi Mohammed's The 1% Windfall
William Poundstone's Priceless
Youngme Moon: Different
Lisa Gansky: The Mesh
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From
Gamestorming: by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo
Click over to Todd's blog to read more about each of his picks.
The Economist's Books of the Year
Posted Dec. 2, 2010 11:17 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
The Economist is surely one of the best, if not the best, weekly publications running. Oddly, though, considering its title, it put only three books in the economics & business category of this year's "page turners"—while there are ten in politics & current affairs and eight in history. I guess that's not too odd, considering this is coming from a magazine that calls itself a newspaper, a newspaper that almost never carries a byline on its articles and essays. But, while The Economist refuses to be boxed in by norms, they sure do know a good book when they read one. The economics & business titles chosen were:
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
- More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby, The Penguin Press
- High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson, The Penguin Press
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I haven't read More Money Than God yet (incidentally, written by "a British journalist who is married to [their] economics editor," a courageous choice there from the editors), but The Big Short and High Financier were two of my favorites of 2010. Also, four of the books in their science & technology category could fit loosely into business. They are:
- Biology is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and New Business of Engineering Life by Rob Carlson, Harvard University Press
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley, Harper
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson, Riverhead
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly, Viking
You can get The Economist's entire list of page turners from the original post, where you'll find brief descriptions of each book.
You can also find a list of Books by Economist writers in 2010 at the site. They do seem to put out a lot of books over there, possibly because their writers want to put their names on something. (I kid, I kid... I love you The Economist.)
Bloomberg Picks 30
Posted Nov. 19, 2010 9:02 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
Here's a list we missed late last month. Though the post is rather cryptically titled Hellhound Bites Citigroup, Schwarzman Finds Gold Mine: Top Business Books, Bloomberg's James Pressley explains exactly why they put the list together:
With so many business books being published each month, we’re often asked for recommendations. Here are 30 of our favorite hardbacks published this year.
I've taken out the author's brief descriptions of each book (head on over to the original post for those), and have taken the liberty to break the books up into a few categories. You'll notice while perusing the titles that the list tends toward larger narratives (many of the financial crisis), biographies and financial history, which I'm a big fan of, and I think makes a lot of sense for Bloomberg and its readers.
A quick note: Many of the books I put in the "Economics" category are, at least in part, about the economic crisis. The books I chose to list in the "Economics" category are those that offer a detailed prescription to the crisis, rather than just documenting the causes and events of it (not that the latter is a lesser task). The books in the "Economics" category were also, by-and-large, written by economists, while those in the "Histories & Narratives of the Economic Crisis" were written by journalists and participants on Wall Street.
Histories & Narratives of the Economic Crisis
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
- Chasing Goldman Sachs: How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down... and Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again by Suzanne McGee, Crown Business
- The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers by Vicky Ward, John Wiley & Sons
- Diary of a Very Bad Year by Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by n+1, Harper Perennial
- The End of Wall Street by Roger Lowenstein, The Penguin Press
- On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson Jr., Business Plus
- The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson, Crown Business
- The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns by Alan C. Greenberg, Simon & Schuster
- The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane by Randall Lane, Portfolio
- The Invisible Hands: Hedge Funds Off the Record-Rethinking Real Money by Steven Drobny, John Wiley & Sons
Economics
- Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B. Reich, Knopf
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan, Princeton University Press
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton
- Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being by George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, Princeton University Press
- Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) by William Poundstone, Hill and Wang
- 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson & James Kwak, Pantheon
- Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm, The Penguin Press
Financial History & Biographies
- American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands, Doubleday Books
- Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc.—How the Working Poor Became Big Business by Gary Rivlin, HarperBusiness
- Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster by Paul Ingrassia, Random House
- The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster
- The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora's Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance by Michael Perino, The Penguin Press
- High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg by Niall Ferguson, The Penguin Press
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone by David Carey & John E. Morris, Crown Business
- More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby, The Penguin Press
- No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos, John Wiley & Sons
- The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon by John Paul Rathbone, The Penguin Press
- War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire by Sarah Ellison, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Other
- You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier, Knopf
Looking over the list, I'm reminded once again what a good year this has been for business books.
If you're an entrepreneur looking for ideas or nuts-and-bolts books on business, this list may not be a great help to you (We'll provide you one that will be on December 15th). But if you're an investor in or student of markets and business, it doesn't get much better than this.
Hudson Booksellers Best Books of 2010
Posted Nov. 17, 2010 6:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
If you both read and travel regularly, you have most likely purchased a book from Hudson Booksellers. They have 65 bookstores and sell books in over 350 Hudson newsstands in airports and transportation terminals throughout North America. They have been releasing a "best of" list every year since 2007, and announced 2010's list yesterday. It includes the best fiction, nonfiction, and young readers titles, but I'm guessing you're here for the business books. 2010 provided a good crop to choose from, from which Hudson selected:
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip & Dean Heath, Broadway Business
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh, Business Plus
- Getting Naked: A Business Fable about Shedding the Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni, Jossey-Bass
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
- Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert Reich, Alfred A. Knopf
If you'd like to check out Hudsons' best books lists from years past, they're linked up below.
Amazon's Best of 2010
Posted Nov. 4, 2010 9:28 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
As they've done in previous years, Amazon has broken the books into separate categories and listed their editors' picks next to the customer favorites. I always enjoy seeing the differences between what editors choose and customers vote for with their pocket books. And I would enjoy it more if I were Michael Lewis, who topped both lists in the Business and Investing category.
The customer favorites were:
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath, Broadway Business
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead
- Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, Crown Business
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin, Portfolio
- The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey, Thomas Nelson Publishers
- On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson, Business Plus
- Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit and Drives Tomorrow's Growth by Inder Sidhu, FT Press
- 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson & James Kwak, Pantheon Books
The editors' picks were:
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, W.W. Norton
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Broadway Business
- The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu, Knopf Publishing Group
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson, Riverhead
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan, Princeton University Press
- No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller by Harry Markopolos, John Wiley & Sons
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely, Harper
- When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man by Jerry Weintraub, Twelve
- Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West by Stephen Fried, Bantam
If you're interested in what's been listed in the past, I've linked to our post from previous years below.
Best of 2009 | Best of 2008 | Best of 2007 | Best of 2006 | Best of 2005 | Best of 2004
