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24 Dec 07 12:20PM Arik Johnson |
My Favorite Books for Business 2007
Every year about this time, I reflect on the top 10 (or so) books that really stood out to me as someone interested in how companies succeed over the long run and how managers and frontline people alike can make the decisions necessary to achieve that success among the hyper-competitive, global markets we face today.
These are, as you might imagine, overwhelmingly of the non-fiction variety, but they are not, strictly speaking, always "business books". That's the case again for 2007, as many of the titles describe as much social phenomena and cognitive skills as they do business strategy.
So, this year, in recognition of the presence of more than one such non-business title on my top 10 list and the fact there are 27 of them, I decided to just call it my "My Favorite Books for Business 2007", in the list below, all having been released sometime in 2007 and are listed in the order in which I most enjoyed them. That said, my favorite book of 2007 was "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip and Dan Heath and first runner-up "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Enjoy!
Though I haven't read them all cover to cover, they have all affected my thinking, one way or another, on what it takes for business to provide value to customers and have an impact on the world around them while not letting the world exact its toll on the company's competitiveness. With that, enjoy and let me know what you think in the comments to this post.
These are, as you might imagine, overwhelmingly of the non-fiction variety, but they are not, strictly speaking, always "business books". That's the case again for 2007, as many of the titles describe as much social phenomena and cognitive skills as they do business strategy.
So, this year, in recognition of the presence of more than one such non-business title on my top 10 list and the fact there are 27 of them, I decided to just call it my "My Favorite Books for Business 2007", in the list below, all having been released sometime in 2007 and are listed in the order in which I most enjoyed them. That said, my favorite book of 2007 was "Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die" by Chip and Dan Heath and first runner-up "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Enjoy!
Though I haven't read them all cover to cover, they have all affected my thinking, one way or another, on what it takes for business to provide value to customers and have an impact on the world around them while not letting the world exact its toll on the company's competitiveness. With that, enjoy and let me know what you think in the comments to this post.
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I love the list. The 4-Hour Work Week and Made to Stick were some of my Favs. I actually jsut got done reading another that I really liked called Big Ideas to Big Results by Michael Kanazawa and Robert Miles. I would really reccomend it!
I think my favorit section was about doing more on less instead of doing more with less.
Thanks Mike - looks like a good title - this is the one right?
http://www.amazon.com/BIG-Ideas-Results-Recharge-Company/dp/0132344785/
They had a nice video summary on the central idea here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m11S918DD3C5N4:m3BXKPU1B0B43X
Thanks again - I'll pick it up and review it for my year-end list of 2008 books!
- Arik