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Posted Nov. 25, 2009 4:52 a.m. by dylan
In General Business - 800 CEO Read Blog
The strategy + business annual books list is always one of the finest and most anticipated of the year. They get really smart and talented people who know how to pick 'em, and have them write (always highly intelligent and insightful) essays on their category—and, of course, the books in it. I've listed the picks below, but it really is worth heading over to strategy + business for the essays. (The links to the individual essays are in the headings below.)
Clive Crook picks the best books on The Meltdown:
- In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic by David Wessel, Crown Business
- Financial Shock: Global Panic and Government Bailouts—How We Got Here and What Must Be Done to Fix It by Mark Zandi, FT Press*mdash;2nd edition
- Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis by John B. Taylor, Hoover Institution Press
- Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett, Free Press
- House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan,
- A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression by Richard A. Posner, Harvard University Press
- Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America by Gerald F. Davis, Oxford University Press
Charles Handy picks the Leadership books:
- The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream amidst Global Financial Chaos by Kenneth Hopper & William Hopper, I. B. Tauris & Company—revised edition
- Transparency: How Leaders Create a Culture of Candor by Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman & James O’Toole with Patricia Ward Biederman, Jossey-Bass
- Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar H. Schein, Berrett-Koehler
- Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders by Alan Deutschman, Portfolio
- Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement by C. Julia Huang, Harvard University Press
Phil Rosenzweig picks the books on Strategy:
- The Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property by Mark Blaxill and Ralph Eckardt, Portfolio
- Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth by David J. Teece, Oxford University Press
- Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron’s Collapse by Malcolm S. Salter, Harvard University Press
Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna take on Globalization:
- The New Silk Road: How a Rising Arab World Is Turning Away from the West and Rediscovering China by Ben Simpfendorfer, Palgrave Macmillan
- Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation by Nandan Nilekani, Penguin Press
- India’s Global Powerhouses: How They Are Taking On the World by Nirmalya Kumar, with Pradipta K. Mohapatra and Suj Chandrasekhar, Harvard Business Press
- The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing by Ian Bremmer & Preston Keat, Oxford University Press
- Riches Among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy by Robert P. Smith with Peter Zheutlin, AMACOM
Judith F. Samuelson picks the Management books:
- The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath by Geoff Colvin, Portfolio
- Managing by Henry Mintzberg, Berrett-Koehler
- Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by John C. Bogle, Wiley
- The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman, Doubleday
Catharine P. Taylor finds the best books on Marketing:
- Twitterville: How Businesses Can Thrive in the New Global Neighborhoods by Shel Israel, Portfolio
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson, Hyperion
- The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It by John Gerzema and Ed Lebar, Jossey-Bass
Steven Levy looks at the best books on Technology:
- Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America by Julia Angwin, Random House
- Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig, Penguin
- Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters by Scott Rosenberg, Crown
James O'Toole picks the best Biographies:
- John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand by Richard Reeves, Overlook
- The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles, Knopf
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, Bantam
As Theodore Kinni writes in the introduction to this year's essays:
This year’s best business books help us understand current conditions and chart a secure course forward. With luck, next year’s best books will offer similar insight into a recovery of historic proportions.
You can read the full feature here.
We've been following this list since 2003. The previous years' lists are below.
2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Crowdsourced Entrepreneurial Reads
Posted Sept. 14, 2009 9:17 a.m. by todd-sattersten
In Lists - 800 CEO Read Blog
A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson from avc.com kicked up interest in books that entreprenuers should read. Fred, in particular, made the point that "there is way more insight to be gained from stories than from business books." He suggested Kavalier and Clay, Atlas Shrugged, The Prince, and anything by Shakespeare.
At the end of his post, he asked for more suggestions. The post generated 191 comments and prompted the creation of a wiki.
I pulled all the books from the wiki over into this post and linked to the books. The [FW] tag denotes that it was endorsed by Mr. Wilson himself directly or in the comments of the original post.
- Atlas Shrugged [FW]
- The Prince [FW]
- All of Shakespeare's Histories & Tragedies [FW]
- Founders at Work
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Catch-22 [FW]
- The Gold Coast
- State of Fear
- Confessions of a Street Addict
- Selling the Wheel
- Plato's Republic
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Moby Dick [FW]
- The Art of War [FW]
- Exodus
- Taking on the World
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Garp [FW]
- Jonathan Livingston Seagull [FW]
- Rossi: MotoGenius
- The Puritan Gift
- The Fountainhead [FW]
- Pillars of the Earth
- The White Tiger
- The Monk and the Riddle
- Outrageous Optimism: Wisdom for the Entrepreneurial Journey
- The E-Myth Revisited
- Setting The Table [FW]
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Siddartha [FW]
- Confederacy of Dunces
- Dark Star Safari
- Project X - Nissin Cup Noodle
- The Red Horse
- St. Augustine's Confessions
- Mastery
- The Four Agreements (Miguel Ruiz)
- Tao Te Ching (Lau Tzu)
- The Sharper your knife, the less you cry (Kathleen Flinn)
- What Would Google Do? (Jeff Jarvis)
- Burn Rate (Michael Wolff)
- Startup (Jerry Kaplan)
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell)
- The Alchemist (Coelho)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
- The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
- Absalom, Absalom (Faulkner)
- The 33 Strategies of War
- The 48 Laws of Power
- Hide a dagger behind a smile
- Cold Calling For Chickens
- Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (Flores)
- The Art Of Profitability
- The Innovator's Dilemma
- Crossing The Chasm
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
- The Compassionate Samurai
- The Art of Learning
- The Selfish Gene
- Capital (Karl Marx)
- Mein Kampf
- The Singularity is Near
- How to Win Friends & Influence People
- Hope is not a Strategy
- The Four steps to the Epiphany
- The Principles of Product Development Flow - Second Generation Lean Product Development
- One Hen
- Blueprint To A Billion
- Moneyball
- The Places In Between
- Mavericks at work
- Blink
- The Tipping Point
- Outliers
- Freakonomics
- Behind Closed Doors (Secrets of great management)
