Best Business Books 2017: s+b’s Top Shelf

Our picks for the best business books of 2017 in seven categories.

November 7, 2017

	Innovation Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson (Norton, 2017)
	Strategy If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat: Strategies for Long-Term Growth by Leonard Sherman (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2017)
	Narratives Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan’s Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America’s New Public Enemy No. 1 by Cyrus Bozorgmehr (Macmillan, 2017)
	Leadership The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World’s Greatest Teams by Sam Walker (Random House, 2017)
	Economics The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press, 2017)
	Marketing Superconsumers: A Simple, Speedy, and Sustainable Path to Superior Growth by Eddie Yoon (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016)
	Management Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal (HarperCollins, 2017)

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