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Best Business Books 2008
by Theodore Kinni

Social critic John Ruskin once wrote, “Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.” Agreed, but that’s easier said than done when the production output of business books exceeded 7,600 titles last year.

Our annual review can help. It whittles the towering stacks down to three dozen books, covered in 10 essays written by a stellar group of commentators, including distinguished newcomers to this magazine like Margaret Wheatley and seasoned veterans like James O’Toole.

In choosing the year’s best business books, we made long lists of likely candidates, but each writer selected which works to read and review for himself or herself. That makes the connections and contradictions between these essays all the more unexpected and interesting. ...

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Best Business Books 2008
By Phil Rosenzweig, Nell Minow, Catharine P. Taylor, Michael Schrage, Jon Gertner, Marc Levinson, Sally Helgesen, Margaret Wheatley, Carole Schwinn, David K. Hurst, and James O’Toole

From strategy+business issue 53, Winter 2008

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CONTENTS
3 Strategy Phil Rosenzweig
07 Life Stories Nell Minow
111 Marketing Catharine P. Taylor
116 Rhetoric Michael Schrage
120 Innovation Jon Gertner
125 Globalization Marc Levinson
130 Human Capital Sally Helgesen
135 Capitalism and Community Margaret Wheatley and Carole Schwinn
140 Management David K. Hurst
144 Miscellany James O’Toole

Best Business Books 2008: s+b’s Top Shelf

Strategy
The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
by William P. Barnett
(Princeton University Press, 2008)

Life Stories
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
by Willie Brown
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Marketing
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
(Harvard Business Press, 2008)

Rhetoric
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
by Robert Schlesinger
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Innovation
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
by John Kao
(Free Press, 2007)

Globalization
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
by Kishore Mahbubani
(PublicAffairs, 2008)

Human Capital
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
by Clayton M. Christensen
(McGraw-Hill, 2008)

Capitalism and Community
Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus
(PublicAffairs, 2007)

Management
Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them
by Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson
(Kogan Page, 2008)

Miscellany
Myself and Other More Important Matters
by Charles Handy
(AMACOM, 2008)

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