strategy+business's Best Books of 2014
November 05, 2014
The s+b yearly list is always decidedly and refreshingly different than most others.
If you're a regular 800-CEO-READ reader or follower, you know that we always look forward to strategy+business revealing their picks for best business books of the year, in part because the s+b list is decidedly different than most other lists. Their categories often change to reflect the most important business topics of the year, and instead of relying solely on an internal editorial team to choose the winners, they reach out to experts in each category's field. But what we most appreciate in the s-b list is that each book is accompanied by an essay explaining the the book's importance. Lists tell us something. Lists combined with hundreds of words of copy tell us even more.
This year's categories are Strategy, Marketing, Executive Self-Improvement, Organizational Culture, Innovation, Sustainability, and Economics.
Choosing the best Strategy books, Strategy& senior partner Ken Favaro "picks the three books that offer new thinking about strategy that is practical and compelling."
- Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise by J.C. Spender, Oxford University Press
- Fewer, Bigger, Bolder: From Mindless Expansion to Focused Growth by Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney, Portfolio
- Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. Kotter, Harvard Business Review Press
- Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers by Niraj Dawar, Harvard Business Review Press
- Connected by Design: 7 Principles for Business Transformation through Functional Integration by Barry Wacksman and Chris Stutzman, Jossey-Bass
- Romancing the Brand: How Brands Create Strong, Intimate Relationships with Consumers by Tim Halloran, Jossey-Bass
- Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rozenzweig, PublicAffairs
- The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen, Harvard Business Review Press
- It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best by Claudio Fernndez-Aroz, Harvard Business Review Press
- Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love by Richard Sheridan, Portfolio
- The Moment You Can't Ignore: When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future by Malachi O'Connor and Barry Dornfeld, PublicAffairs
- The Circle, by Dave Eggers, Knopf
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, W.W. Norton
- Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread—The Lessons from a New Science by Alex Pentland, Penguin Press
- How Google Works, by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, Business Plus
- Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics, by Mark Moody-Stuart, Greenleaf
- How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class, by John Hope Bryant, Berrett Koehler
- The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World, by Andrew Winston, Harvard Business Review Press
- Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty, Belknap Press
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, Timothy Geithner, Crown
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