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Best Business Books 2010: s+b’s Top Shelf

November 23, 2010

(originally published by Booz & Company)

	The Economy Slapped by the Invisible Hand: The Panic of 2007 by Gary B. Gorton (Oxford University Press, 2010)
	Leadership Reflections on Leadership and Career Development: On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries (Jossey-Bass, 2010)
	Innovation Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson (Riverhead, 2010)
	China Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler (Harper, 2010)
	Human Capital Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance by Boris Groysberg (Princeton University Press, 2010)
	The Human Mind Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do about It by Richard S. Tedlow (Portfolio, 2010)
	Management The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin (Harvard Business Press, 2010)
	Biography and History Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent (Scribner, 2010)

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