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

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

December 2, 2013

(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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