Writers on Writers: Best Business Books
Winter is prime time for business journalists to announce the best books of the year. Forbes, Inc., Business Insider, Amazon, Goodreads – and now a new journal in the Ford Library, strategy+business by PwC – all publish lists of the best books for business people.
The books cited in this post are from PwC’s strategy+business list. Readers who want to read complete reviews by business writers (editors, authors, columnists) in print can find them in strategy+business in the Leadership & Management journal section of the Ford Library. The books below are available in various formats (ebooks, audiobooks, print) through the Duke libraries online catalog. Click the the title to see the available formats.
Topic: Strategy
Business strategy: managing uncertainty, opportunity, and enterprise by J.C. Spender
Fewer, bigger, bolder: from mindless expansion to focused growth by Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney
Accelerate: building strategic agility for a faster-moving world by John P. Kotter
Topic: Marketing
Tilt: shifting your strategy from products to customers by Niraj Dawar
Connected by design: 7 principles for business transformation through functional integration by Barry Wacksman and Chris Stutzman
Romancing the brand: how brands create strong, intimate relationships with consumers by Tim Halloran
Topic: Self-Improvement
Left brain, right stuff: how leaders make winning decisions by Phil Rosenzweig
Moment of clarity: using the human sciences to solve your toughest business problems by Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen
It’s not the how or the what but the who: succeed by surrounding yourself with the best by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz
Topic: Organizational Culture
Joy, inc.: how we built a workplace people love by Richard Sheridan
The moment you can’t ignore: when big trouble leads to a great future by Malachi O’Connor and Barry Dornfeld
The circle by Dave Eggers
Topic: Innovation
The second machine age: work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Social physics: how good ideas spread – the lessons from a new science by Alex “Sandy” Pentland
How Google works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Topic: Sustainability
Responsible leadership: lessons from the front line of sustainability and ethics by Mark Moody-Stuart
How the poor can save capitalism: rebuilding the path to the middle class by John Hope Bryant
The big pivot: radically practical strategies for a hotter, scarcer, and more open world by Andrew S. Winston
Topic: Economics
Capital in the 21st century by Thomas Piketty
Age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth and faith in the new China by Evan Osnos
Stress test: reflections on financial crises by Tim Geithner
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