All articles tagged: business books

Friday, the Thirteenth, a classic 1907 novel by the muckraker and stock manipulator Thomas Lawson, reminds us that telling stories can weaponize resentment.

In his new book, John Hudson, a survival instructor for the British military, offers lessons on how to get through the most challenging ordeals.

In her new book, Can’t Even, Anne Helen Petersen lays out the immense challenges millennials face in gaining a foothold in the economy.

David Lodge’s comic novel explores what business can learn from literature, and vice versa.

Writers at strategy+business pick the year’s best books in seven categories.

Strategy with a purpose

In the 20th edition of strategy+business’s Best Business Books section, our writers identify the three most compelling reads in seven genres.

The iconic novel, which celebrates risk-taking and self-interest, has important lessons for current debates surrounding inequality and liberty.

The novel The Magnificent Ambersons reveals the dangers of complacency in the face of transformative new technologies.

In his new book, journalist Matthew Yglesias argues that the U.S. should strive to triple its population.

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.

Philip Roth’s American Pastoral measures the gulf between a careful business leader and his radical daughter.

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.

What captains of industry can learn from captains in the great age of sail.

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.

A 20th-century working-class philosopher has a lot to teach modern workers — and managers — about finding meaning in life, and on the job.

For those who want to slow down and still keep up.

George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play Major Barbara, the best stage drama written about business, has lessons that resonate with today’s audiences.

In his new book, historian Rutger Bregman argues that people are actually fundamentally good.

In his new book, American Business History, Walter A. Friedman offers a highly concise history of free enterprise in the United States.

The 1952 novel Executive Suite tells us what it takes to fill the shoes of an icon.

Understanding how ecosystems grow, thrive, and regenerate can help leaders steer their organization in the future.

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.

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.

The novelist’s 1947 book, The Plague, highlights the importance of shared purpose and belonging in the face of uncertainty.