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Best Business Books 2014: s+b’s Top Shelf

Our annual review of the year’s best business books. See also Best Business Books 2014—in Pictures.

November 3, 2014

	Strategy Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
	Marketing Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers by Niraj Dawar (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)
	Executive Self-Improvement Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig (PublicAffairs, 2014)
	Organizational Culture The Circle by Dave Eggers (Knopf, 2013)
	Innovation Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland (Penguin Press, 2014)
	Sustainability The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew S. Winston (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)
	Economics Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press, 2014)

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