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Best Business Books 2019: s+b’s Top Shelf

Our picks for the best business books of 2019 in seven categories. See also the slideshow “Top shelf picks: Best Business Books 2019."

November 5, 2019

	NARRATIVES Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit by William Knoedelseder (HarperBusiness, 2018)
	TALENT & LEADERSHIP Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It) by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019)
	ECONOMICS The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society by Binyamin Appelbaum (Little, Brown, 2019)
	STRATEGY Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen by Rita McGrath (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)
	MANAGEMENT Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019)
	TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson (Penguin Press, 2019)
	MARKETING Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption by Thales S. Teixeira (with Greg Piechota; Currency, 2019)

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