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strategy+business: Selection of the Best Business Books and Writers

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s+b provides wide-ranging coverage of business books, including book reviews by well-known business writers, professors, and executives. Our coverage includes “Author’s Choice” features (in which noted business authors introduce excerpts from great business books), as well as critical essays, including “Books in Brief” reviews and our comprehensive annual feature, The Best Business Books of the Year.

Business Literature

Author's Choice

Leaders Resolve Contradiction

Ronald Heifetz, coauthor, with Marty Linsky and Alexander Grashow, of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, introduces a lesson in leadership from Inside Coca-Cola, by Neville Isdell with David Beasley.
Best Business Books 2011

The Good Company Revisited

From s+b’s Best Business Books 2011: Three books that illuminate the social role of business.
 
Best Business Books 2011

Highlights from the Decade

strategy+business published its first “Best Business Books” section in Winter 2001. Here, in retrospect, is the book from each year that we think was most significant.
Best Business Books 2011

Best Business Books 2011

Our annual review: James O’Toole on Ethics and Aspirations, Phil Rosenzweig on Strategy, David K. Hurst on Management, David Warsh on Economics, Catharine P. Taylor on Marketing, Barbara Kellerman on Leadership, and Michael Schrage on Technology.
 

The Jobs Engine

Carl J. Schramm, author of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, introduces a lesson in power and the sources of good jobs from The Coming Jobs War: What Every Leader Must Know about the Future of Job Creation, by Jim Clifton.

What Can You Do Better?

Paul Leinwand, coauthor, with Cesare Mainardi, of The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy, introduces a guiding maxim for CSR success from Winning Investors Over: Surprising Truths about Honesty, Earnings Guidance, and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price, by Baruch Lev.

Best Business Books 2011: Management

The Battle for Management’s Future

Best Business Books 2011: Strategy

Asking the Right Questions

Best Business Books 2011: Leadership

Learning to Lead the Old-Fashioned Way

Best Business Books 2011: Technology

The Ecology of Technology

Our Own Worst Enemies

Louis Carter, editor of Best Practices in Talent Management: How the World’s Leading Corporations Manage, Develop, and Retain Top Talent (coedited with Marshall Goldsmith), introduces a lesson on the best practices mind-set from The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success, by Carol Sanford.
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