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Posted Nov. 24, 2010 10:28 a.m. by dylan
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strategy + business's "best of" list is always a special treat—in large part because it's never just a list, but a series of essays. The magazine gathers together a different team of experts each year, and each takes the task of writing on their chosen category and the books in it. I've listed their picks below, linking to the essays at the head of each category.
On the Economy, The Fog of Panic by David Warsh
- Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton, Oxford University Press
- On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson Jr., Business Plus
- The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History by Gregory Zuckerman, Broadway Books
- More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby, The Penguin Press
- Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan, Princeton University Press
- 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown by Simon Johnson & James Kwak, Pantheon Books
On Leadership, Highlights in a Low Year by Walter Kiechel III
- Reflections on Leadership and Career Development: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Jossey-Bass
- Open Leadership: How Social Technology Can Transform the Way You Lead by Charlene Li, Jossey-Bass
- Learning from Catastrophes: Strategies for Reaction and Response by Howard Kunreuther & Michael Useem, eds., Wharton School Publishing
- Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst by Robert I. Sutton, Business Plus
On Innovation, Innovation as a Social Act by Krisztina “Z” Holly
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson, Riverhead
- The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, & Lang Davison, Basic Books
- Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky, The Penguin Press
On China, Probing China’s Infrastructure by Sheridan Prasso
- China 2.0: The Transformation of an Emerging Superpower... and the New Opportunities by Marina Yue Zhang with Bruce W. Stening, John Wiley & Sons
- Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler, Harper
- The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future by Elizabeth C. Economy, Cornell University Press (2nd edition)
- The China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World’s Fastest-Growing Economy by Edward Tse, Basic Books
On Human Capital, Talent Redefined by Sally Helgesen
- Clever: Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People by Rob Goffee & Gareth Jones, Harvard Business Press
- Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg, Princeton University Press
- Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce by Jody Heymann with Magda Barrera, Harvard Business Press
On the Human Mind, You Are What You Think by Judith E. Glaser
- Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do about It by Richard S. Tedlow, Portfolio
- Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael J. Mauboussin, Harvard Business Press
- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Broadway
- Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don’t by Paul Sullivan, Portfolio
- Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead
On Management, The Chorus Takes a Bow by David K. Hurst
- Reinventing Management: Smarter Choices for Getting Work Done by Julian Birkinshaw, Jossey-Bass
- Leading Outside the Lines: How to Mobilize the (In)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results by Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan, Jossey-Bass
- The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, & Monique Sternin, Harvard Business Press
- Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads by Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, & Patrick G. Cullen, Harvard Business Press
On Biography & History, True Tales of Fortune by James O’Toole
- The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley, Knopf
- Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership by Warren Bennis, Jossey-Bass
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent, Scribner
- For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World’s Favorite Drink and Changed History by Sarah Rose, Viking
The covers below represent s + b's Top Shelf—the best books of each category.
As Theodore Kinni writes in his introduction to the essays:
Two years after the financial collapse, the idea of hunkering down and waiting for a return to business as usual—as people did in previous recessions—seems a less and less viable strategy. But what should you do instead?
In this edition of our annual review of the year’s best business books, you will find a reading list that offers intriguing and compelling answers to this question.
We've been following this list since 2003, and you can peruse past year's lists with the links below.
Friday Links
Posted March 26, 2010 11:07 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog
➻ If you haven't read Texts Without Contexts, Michiko Kakutani's piece from last Sunday's New York Times yet, I can't recommend it highly enough. It's almost counter to the point of the story to quote an excerpt, but I am going to anyway:
Now, with the ubiquity of instant messaging and e-mail, the growing popularity of Twitter and YouTube, and even newer services like Google Wave, velocity and efficiency have become even more important. Although new media can help build big TV audiences for events like the Super Bowl, it also tends to make people treat those events as fodder for digital chatter. More people are impatient to cut to the chase, and they’re increasingly willing to take the imperfect but immediately available product over a more thoughtfully analyzed, carefully created one. Instead of reading an entire news article, watching an entire television show or listening to an entire speech, growing numbers of people are happy to jump to the summary, the video clip, the sound bite—never mind if context and nuance are lost in the process; never mind if it’s our emotions, more than our sense of reason, that are engaged; never mind if statements haven’t been properly vetted and sourced.
Now go read the entire article.
➻ Michael Mace wrote a very lengthy, veritable dissertation on the subject of The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that means for 2010. It's certainly the most in depth analysis of the situation that I've read. But, being a lover of short stories, there's one possibility he raises that really struck me:
Short fiction is a great fit for e-readers because it can be consumed in small bites, and if authors could sell directly to their readers, the revenue could eventually be good enough that people would go back to writing short fiction. Plus it would give e-reader devices a real benefit -- content that you can't get anywhere else.
What's missing is the marketplace to make that happen. We need the equivalent of an iTunes store for short stories, tied to a mass market tablet device.
➻ strategy + business has a new article up from Edward Tse, adapted from his new book, The China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy.
➻ In a case of one author of one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time talking to another, The New Yorker has video of James Surowiecki (The Wisdom of Crowds) speaking with Michael Mauboussin (More Than You Know) about "common investment mistakes, how to improve decision-making, and what investors can learn from the recent stock-market woes."
➻ AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM DAVID MAMET TO THE WRITERS OF THE UNIT ON WHAT MAKES FOR GOOD DRAMATIC WRITING HAS BEEN MAKING ITS WAY AROUND THE INTERNET THIS WEEK.
➻ It quite old now, but I love Nicholas Carr's Tweet fantasy:
How cool would it have been if Twitter had been invented a couple hundred years ago so our forebears could have used it?transcendo: RT @emerson new idea: "the making a fact the subject of thought raises it" http://bit.ly/cAhzDL (expand)<----interesting!
His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, coming out in June, might be my favorite of the year so far.
➻ I was hoping we could end this week talking a little bit about health care reform. (Also, if you could hit me with a hammer, that would be great.) Eschewing the hyperbole and vitriol coming over our public airwaves lately, The Christian Science Monitor's Marjorie Kehe put together a fine list of books that could provide ground for a more civil debate, writing "For those hoping to gain a wider grasp of the American healthcare reform debate, here's a (beginning) reading list. The authors below do not offer common prescriptions, but they do share some lucid analyses of the problem:"
- Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--And the People Who Pay the Price by Jonathan Cohn, HarperPerennial
- Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer by Shannon Brownlee, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn Against Government by Theda Skocpol
- The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care by David Gratzer, Encounter Books
- The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out by Julius B Richmond & Rashi Fein, Harvard University Press
➻ The GalleyCat reports that LeVar Burton may have Reading Rainbow 2.0 in the works, which I mention only in an cruel attempt to get the original theme song stuck in your head for the next week.
➻ The New York Times' Jeffrey Scales put together a very cool audio slide show about W. Eugene Smith and The Jazz Loft Project.
➻ One of the very best 8cr excursions in company history was in NYC two years ago (we were there for our first awards event), when three separate groups of us all converged on the very hard-to-find, practically unmarked Issue Project Room in Brooklyn to see Jonathan Kane.
