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Best Business Books 2013: s+b’s Top Shelf

Our annual review of the year’s best business books.

(originally published by Booz & Company)
Strategy
The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business
by Rita Gunther McGrath
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)
Company Stories
Story of My People
by Edoardo Nesi
(Other Press, 2013)
Globalization
Rough Diamonds: The Four Traits of Successful Breakout Firms in BRIC Countries
by Seung Ho Park, Nan Zhou, and Gerardo R. Ungson
(Jossey-Bass, 2013)
Digitization
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
Marketing
Simple: Conquering the Crisis  of Complexity
by Alan Siegel and Irene  Etzkorn
(Twelve, 2013)
Managerial Self-Help
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling
by Edgar H. Schein
(Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013)
Leadership
Everybody Ought to Be Rich: The Life and Times of John J. Raskob, Capitalist
by David Farber
(Oxford University Press, 2013)

 

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