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Best Business Books 2020: s+b’s Top Shelf

Our picks for the best business books of 2020 in seven categories.

November 9, 2020

	TALENT & LEADERSHIP Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Public Affairs, 2020)
	STRATEGY Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020)
	NARRATIVES Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America by Jim Rasenberger (Scribner, 2020)
	MANAGEMENT Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by B.J. Fogg (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
	ECONOMICS The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter (Random House, 2020)
	TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H. Thomke (Harvard Business Review Press, 2020)
	MARKETING Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in the Age of Data by Rishad Tobaccowala (HarperCollins Leadership, 2020

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