Best Business Books 2008: s+b’s Top Shelf

Strategy
The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
by William P. Barnett
(Princeton University Press, 2008)

Life Stories
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times 
by Willie Brown
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Marketing
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
(Harvard Business Press, 2008)

Rhetoric
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
by Robert Schlesinger
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Innovation
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
by John Kao
(Free Press, 2007)

Globalization
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
by Kishore Mahbubani
(PublicAffairs, 2008)

Human Capital
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
by Clayton M. Christensen
(McGraw-Hill, 2008)

Capitalism and Community
Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus
(PublicAffairs, 2007)

Management
Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them
by Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson
(Kogan Page, 2008)

Miscellany
Myself and Other More Important Matters
by Charles Handy
(AMACOM, 2008)