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Always anticipated, strategy + business has published their Best Business Books 2008. What makes this list special is that they assign each category to an expert in that field for review, and each reviewer delivers a lengthy and in depth essay on the books chosen. I've linked each category to it's reviewer's essay at the top of each section.
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If you follow business books, you no doubt know that The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs award one book each year The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. What you may have escaped your business book radar is The Financial Times Management Blog and their picks of the 2008 crop. Most of the books that made the FT/Goldman Sachs shortlist made this list as well (I'll point them out below), the sole exception being William J.
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Fast Company chose its business books of the year last week. David Lidsky wrote the copy, stating:
The titles that follow run the gamut of what Fast Company covers: Innovation, creativity, design, sustainability, technology, advertising and marketing, global business, and entertainment. The theme running through them is that new ideas are the lifeblood of business, and the process of finding and sharing new ideas is essential to success.
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Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us by Seth Godin, Portfolio, 151 pages, $19. 95, Hardcover, October 2008, ISBN 9781591842330
"We Need You To Lead Us. " The call to action is clear and powerful, exactly what you would expect from marketer Seth Godin.
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Business Stripped Bare: Adventure of a Global Entrepreneur by Richard Branson, Virgin Books, 352 pages, $26. 95, Hardcover, September 2008, ISBN 9781905264421
Two autobiographies, 200 some companies, even a Simpsons parody, and there certainly seems enough Richard Branson to go around the world (hot-air balloon pun intended) these days. By any standards the Virgin CEO has little left to prove, and could rightly be focused on enjoying those looming golden years on his privately owned Caribbean island ($20,500 a night if you’re interested).
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