September 16, 2020
Connecting the dots in an uncertain world
NYU’s Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.
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s+b BlogsSeptember 10, 2020A CEO who won’t take the gloves off
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral measures the gulf between a careful business leader and his radical daughter.
August 31, 2020Delivering on your promises
In The Ends Game, professors Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg explain how companies can help their customers meet goals by rewriting the rules of commerce.
August 19, 2020What if every job seeker got a living-wage job?
Economist Pavlina R. Tcherneva demolishes the idea that there is an optimal rate of unemployment and makes a timely case for a national job guarantee.
August 14, 2020Mutiny amid the bounty
What captains of industry can learn from captains in the great age of sail.
August 11, 2020The sinking fortunes of the shipping box
In his new book, journalist and historian Marc Levinson describes the limits of long supply chains and the ways in which new trade routes are forming.
July 27, 2020How fiction can help us imagine the future
In an age of big data, artificial intelligence, and continual forecasting, fiction can help us navigate uncertainty by opening our eyes to a wide range of scenarios.
s+b BlogsJuly 23, 2020Management lessons of The True Believer
A 20th-century working-class philosopher has a lot to teach modern workers — and managers — about finding meaning in life, and on the job.
July 6, 2020Fit-for-context leadership
Hult International Business School professor Amit Mukherjee argues that new leadership practices are needed for a digital era.
s+b BlogsJune 26, 2020A dramatic example of adopting best practices
George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play Major Barbara, the best stage drama written about business, has lessons that resonate with today’s audiences.
June 12, 2020Restoring faith in humanity?
In his new book, historian Rutger Bregman argues that people are actually fundamentally good.
June 2, 2020Making experiments pay
In The Power of Experiments, Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman provide an overview of the applications, promise, and perils of corporate experimentation.
s+b BlogsMay 27, 2020The general wisdom of Ulysses S. Grant
A serial failure up until the Civil War, Grant had a talent for leadership that secured the Union. His strategy and style still offer valuable lessons for today’s executives.
May 26, 2020The business of America, in a nutshell
In his new book, American Business History, Walter A. Friedman offers a highly concise history of free enterprise in the United States.
s+b BlogsMay 11, 2020No success without succession
The 1952 novel Executive Suite tells us what it takes to fill the shoes of an icon.
s+b BlogsApril 27, 2020Tales of the original Industrial Revolution
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Victorian-era novel North and South has a great deal to teach us about the enduring tensions between progress and prosperity, industry and labor, and rural and urban life.
April 15, 2020Too much work, too little time
In the new book Overload, professors Erin L. Kelly and Phyllis Moen report the results of a rigorous five-year field experiment in giving employees more control over their jobs.
April 6, 2020Plumbing the depths
In their comprehensive new book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain why mortality rates in the U.S. are rising.
s+b BlogsMarch 30, 2020Business lessons from Albert Camus
The novelist’s 1947 book, The Plague, highlights the importance of shared purpose and belonging in the face of uncertainty.
March 12, 2020The algorithmic trade-off between accuracy and ethics
In The Ethical Algorithm, two University of Pennsylvania professors explain how social values such as fairness and privacy can be designed into machines.
March 10, 2020The long history of the con
In Don’t Fall for It, Ben Carlson delves into the psychology of why some people commit fraud — and why others become victims of it.
February 26, 2020The little guy’s guide to the world economy
In his new book, The Passion Economy, journalist Adam Davidson uncovers stories of small businesses that thrive in niches.
February 24, 2020The most agile day
What the Allied invasion of Normandy has to teach us about the power and utility of organizational agility.
February 18, 2020The evolution of trust
In his new book, Not Born Yesterday, Hugo Mercier argues that humans are wired to see through misinformation and lies.
February 10, 2020The upside of slow growth
In the new book Fully Grown, economist Dietrich Vollrath argues that the recent spell of moderate growth in the U.S. is a sign of success.
s+b BlogsJanuary 24, 2020Exit strategies
Fifty years after its publication, Albert O. Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty still has a lot to tell us about the life of organizations.
January 20, 2020A brave new workless world
In his new book, Oxford University economist Daniel Susskind sketches out the perils and promise of automation’s displacement of labor.
January 16, 2020Pessimism dematerialized: Four reasons to be hopeful about the future
In More from Less, MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee argues that the “four horsemen of the optimist” are galloping to the planet’s rescue.
s+b BlogsJanuary 6, 2020Before Murphy Brown and Liz Lemon, there was Emma McChesney
The lasting relevance of a fictional early-20th-century career woman.
December 12, 2019A disappointing progress report on diversity and inclusion
In Diversity, Inc., NYU journalism professor Pamela Newkirk revisits decades of investment in D&I, and asks why the returns have been so meager.
s+b BlogsDecember 6, 2019True lessons about failure from the best business satire ever written
In his 1975 novel J R, William Gaddis predicted our excesses.
s+b BlogsDecember 5, 2019To be a better leader, tell a different story
Business storyteller Annette Simmons explains how the right narrative can help leaders and listeners broaden their perspective and circle of concern.
November 15, 2019How to build a great experience
A new book by two professors provides a tool kit for designers of customer, user, and employee experiences.
November 13, 2019What’s your story?
In his new book, Nobel-winning economist Robert J. Shiller emphasizes the importance of narratives.
November 5, 2019Top shelf picks: Best Business Books 2019
Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories.
November 5, 2019Best Business Books 2019: Narratives
Trains, automobiles, and the plain impact of transportation.
November 5, 2019Best 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, 2019Best Business Books 2019
In the 19th edition of strategy+business's Best Business Books section, our writers identify the three most compelling reads in seven genres.
October 25, 2019Command and control: Lessons in high-stakes leadership
In his new book, historian Andrew Roberts delves into the experiences of wartime leaders to produce lessons for heads of business.
s+b BlogsOctober 18, 2019Past performance is no guarantee of future results
Lessons from the past may be the only available guide for navigating the present and future, but CEOs need to take them with a grain of salt.
s+b BlogsOctober 3, 2019Can you be a shaper of great institutions?
Former Tata Group director R. Gopalakrishnan, who's written a new book, says the best leaders focus on building both a better business and a better world.
s+b BlogsOctober 1, 2019The living lessons of Dead Souls
The classic Nikolai Gogol satire from 1842 provides keen insight into the endurance of charismatic financial hustlers.
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