On the very first day of 2017, I thought fit to collate a list of business management books to read, as observed on just the first page of Google search.
Jena McGregor recommendation on The Washington Post:
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace By Christine Porath, Dec. 27
Stretch By Scott Sonenshein, Feb. 7
Madame President By Helene Cooper, March 7
Eyes Wide Open By Isaac Lidsky, March 14
Radical Candor By Kim Scott, March 14
Option B By Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant, April 24
The Captain Class: The Driving Force Behind the World’s Greatest Teams By Sam Walker, May 16
The Push By Tommy Caldwell, May 16
Gorbachev: His Life and Times By William Taubman, Sept. 7
Shana Lebowitz recommends 10 books every new manager should read @ Business Insider India.
‘Drive’ by Daniel H. Pink
‘The One Thing You Need to Know’ by Marcus Buckingham
‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman
‘Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader’ by Herminia Ibarra
‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ by Dale Carnegie
“Mindset’ by Carol Dweck
‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius and Gregory Hays
‘Things Fall Apart’ by Chinua Achebe
‘Now, Discover Your Strengths’ by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins
Four Business Books To Read In 2017 @ Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership
The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build BroadSupport, and Get It Approved, by Mike Figliuolo
Leading the Unleadable – How to Manage Mavericks, Cynics, Divas, andOther Difficult People, by Alan Willett
Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Lencioni
Twelve Business Books to Read in 2017 by Natalie White
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t By Jim Collins
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers By Ben Horowitz
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex By Michael Hiltzik
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces That Shape Behavior By Jonah Berger
The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds That Make a Business Great By Professor Joel C. Peterson
Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma By Professor Charles O’Reilly and Michael Tushman
Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least By Jessica Jackley
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World By Adam Grant
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu By Dan Jurafsky
The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It By David Weil
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks By Ben Goldacre
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
These may certainly not be the only ones to be the recommended books. But, indeed it makes a very good beginning for a New Year.
Wishing The Best of 2017…..
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