Monday, December 3, 2007

Business Week's Best Business Books

The latest issue of Business Week includes one view of the best business books of the year. The list includes
  • In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (by Edward Luce)
  • Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (by Joe Studwell)
  • The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (by Alan Greenspan)
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
  • The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure (And What to Do About It) (by Michael E. Raynor)
  • Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business (by John Newhouse)
  • The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea (by Steve LeVine)
  • The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty (by Julia Flynn Siler)
  • The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune (by Conor O'Clery)
  • Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back (by John Kao)
How about you? What's the best business book you've read this year? Count one vote for The Halo Effect, discussed in this post.

4 comments:

  1. Well, I would have said Marc Levinson's The Box, but (as it happens) it was published in 2006. So let's call it a two-way tie: Thomas McGraw's The Prophet of Innovation and Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms.

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  2. Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain is a thoughtful book now that politicians are preying in the insecurity immigrants generate in the population

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  3. Managerial Economics: A Problem Solving Approach by Froeb/McCann

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  4. Thanks for posting this. If anyone has the inclination, I'm glad to answer any questions posed about the book or its subject.

    Steve LeVine, author
    The Oil and the Glory (Random House)
    http://www.oilandglory.com

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