The Halftime Report: What are The Best Business Books Thus Far of 2011?

Overview

One of my great interests as a management professor is keeping abreast of the best business books out there – both for my own reading and more so, to help students find books that are of interest to them in advancing their education and their careers. So, as of August 2011, websites and publications are starting to advance their first “best of…” lists for the year in business books. Thus, without further adieu, here are some great suggestions for books to read for your classes and for your career – whether you do so out of self-interest or need one for an assignment.

800CEORead (http://blog.800ceoread.com/)

Amazon’s books editors have announced their “2011 Best Books of the Year So Far” list. I don’t recall them putting out a mid-year list in the past, but it’s a great idea and they’ve picked some very worthy titles.
Their top ten in the Business & Investing category are:

• Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz, Rodale Press
• Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki, Portfolio
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by David Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright, Harper Paperbacks (the paperback release of the authors’ 2008 book)
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy, Simon & Schuster
• Poke the Box by Seth Godin, The Domino Project – Powered by Amazon
• Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity by Josh Linkner, Jossey-Bass
• We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World by Simon Mainwaring, Palgrave MacMillan
• The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk, HarperBusiness
• Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life by Alexander Green, John Wiley & Sons
• Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything by John Mauldin, John Wiley & Sons

On that list, Disciplined Dreaming author Josh Linkner contributed a manifesto to the February issue of ChangeThis, and we have a manifesto from Simon Mainwaring coming on July 6. A few of these books were also Jack Covert Selects when they were released, including Onward, Enchantment, and The Thank You Economy.
There are also books in the general nonfiction category that business readers might find of interest, including:

• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer, Penguin Press
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick, Pantheon Books
• Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Andrew Miller, Little Brown and Company
• The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson, Riverhead Books
• Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Saunders, Pantheon Books

Source:  http://blog.800ceoread.com/2011/06/27/amazons-best-of-201-so-far/

Inc. Magazine (http://www.inc.com/)

The Business Book Bestseller List
August 2011

1. Beyond Performance
by Scott Keller, Colin Price; John Wiley & Sons
Provides practical tools to achieve superior levels of performance and health through a staged change process.

2. Unfair Advantage
by Robert T Kiyosaki; Plata Publishing
Explains how financial knowledge is their unfair advantage.

3. What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
by Robert Steven Kaplan; Harvard Business School Press
Helps you learn to ask the right questions and work through the answers in ways that are right for you.

4. Buying Brain
by A K Pradeep; John Wiley & Sons
How cutting-edge neuroscience is having an impact on how we make, buy, sell, and enjoy things.

5. Strengths Finder 2.0
by Tom Rath; Gallup Press
A guide for optimizing your talents, helping to find the right fit for the people in your organization or for yourself.

6. Inside Every Woman
by Vickie L Milazzo; John Wiley & Sons
Vickie Milazzo discusses the obstacles she and other women overcame on their paths to success.

7. Flying Without a Net
by Thomas J DeLong; Harvard Business School Press
“Explains how to draw strength from vulnerability for those seeking to thrive in this Age of Anxiety.”

8. Only Three Questions That Count
by Kenneth L Fisher, Jennifer Chou, Lara Hoffmans, James J Cram; John Wiley & Sons
Shows how to develop innovative ways to understand and profit from the markets.

9. It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand for
by Roy M Spence, Haley Rushing; Portfolio
Change the way you view your job, your business model, your leadership style, and your marketing.

10. Energy Bus
by Jon Gordon; John Wiley & Sons
A business fable about how to find inner motivation and pass that inspiring energy on to others.

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Ha-Joon Chang:

In Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, leading microeconomists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller question two fundamental assumptions of free-market economics—those of human rationality and self-interest. They show how things like fairness and confidence, which are conspicuous in their absence in mainstream economic discourse, are critical in understanding how our economies really work. After reading this book, you will see things like financial bubbles, business cycles, unemployment, inflation, and even racial discrimination in a totally new light.
Prof. Chang teaches economics at the University of Cambridge and is author of 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism.

Lisa W. Hershman:

In a masterful showcase of reporting, journalist Julie MacIntosh meticulously documents the final days of a great American company in Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon. Although MacIntosh spins her tale around the contemptuous rivalry between father August Busch III and son August Busch IV, in the end the lessons for businesses everywhere couldn’t be clearer: The overthrow of Anheuser-Busch is what happens when a company forgets what made it great and, instead, devolves into a organization of competing egos and destructive power struggles.
Ms. Hershman is CEO of Hammer and Co., a business education and research firm, and co-author of Faster Cheaper Better: The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done.

Rachel Botsman:

My reading list this year has been jammed with books focusing on how new technologies can help build a better, more collaborative world. In Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, Clay Shirky examines how even a fractional change in our TV watching habits generates a vast source of free time–a collective, creative force Shirky refers to as “cognitive surplus.” The book looks at examples from Ushandi to Patients Like Me that are using this “spare brainpower” to create valuable things together. After reading the book, I could not stop thinking about the opportunities for business and public services to harness this force. And in Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, Steven Johnson brilliantly examines where great ideas that define our modern world have originated. Any business reader should take note of his “Fourth Quadrant,” based on collaborative models of innovation that will cultivate and promote the next wave of game-changing innovations.
Ms. Botsman is co-author of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption.

Vineet Nayar:

In reinventing our company over the past five years, we have tried to push responsibility for change down the traditional hierarchy and out to the far reaches of the organization. An inspiration for me in this effort has been The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom. The dual images of those animals, with their similar shapes but very different internal structures, vividly depict the strength and resiliency of a decentralized organization. The spider, with its big head and weak legs, dies when decapitated, while the starfish can regenerate itself from a single amputated leg.
Mr. Nayar is vice chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies, a global IT services company based in Noida, India, and author of Employees First, Customers Second: Turning Conventional Management Upside Down.

Jennifer Robin:

They had me at “two brains.” I knew that Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard would become one of my favorite books when Chip and Dan Heath told both sides of the story of change: the need to appeal to both the rational and emotional sides of our brains in order for real change to occur. Concepts like “following the bright spots” and “finding the feeling” are among many in Switch that speak both to leaders wanting to change organizations and to individuals wanting to change their behaviors. And they work—I’ve seen it firsthand in my work with good companies that are looking to become great. Beyond informative, the book is also impeccably written. It carries you along, and the examples are made to stick (perhaps not coincidentally, the title of the Heath brothers’ first book). Switch is one of those rare books that remain instructive long after you close the back cover.
Prof. Robin teaches leadership and HR management at Bradley University’s Foster College of Business and is author of The Great Workplace: How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters.

Eli Holzman:

I came late to Dale Carnegie’s 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People, so it was all new to me. My co-author Stephen Lambert recommended it at a time when I was struggling to manage some rather difficult staff. It illuminated for me the underlying principles behind some of my more effective habits, and it suggested techniques that have proved most effective in areas where I was less strong. At base, it is a book about managing people—most crucially, oneself. I have recommended it countless times. (Most recently today.) And I intend to revisit it soon.
Mr. Holzman is a five-time Emmy nominee for producing reality-based TV series and co-author of Undercover Boss: Inside the TV Phenomenon That Is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere.

Shraga Biran:

We are witnessing a new era in our world economy—one in which intangible capital holds the largest share of today’s wealth of nations. Drawing on research from the world’s most important economists, Arnold Kling and Nick Schultz’s From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities, and Lasting Triumph Over Scarcity reflects on a new political economy, typified by a true equality of opportunity. The authors’ optimism about the possibility of conquering poverty is a call to action in the best of American traditions.
Mr. Biran is founder and owner of a leading Israeli law firm, an entrepreneur specializing in the international real-estate and energy industries, and author of Opportunism: How to Change the World—One Idea at a Time.

Stephen Shapiro:

I was given the paperback version of Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive as a gift but found myself referring to it so often that I also bought a copy for my Kindle/BlackBerry. Co-authors Noah Goldstein, Steve Martin, and Robert Cialdini offer fifty actionable, bite-sized nuggets on how to influence people. There are some classic techniques that involve social proof and reciprocity, and there are others that are so thought-provoking that I find myself talking about them all of the time. For example, one technique that increased the tips received by wait staff in restaurants was to remove the basket of mints by the exit. Waiters who gave the mints directly to customers with their bill got higher tips. But what was really interesting was when the waiter gave a mint, walked away, and then returned to give a few extras, the tips went through the roof. I have used variations on this technique and many others from Yes! and found that they truly work. Any business that is looking to grow should read the book cover to cover.
Mr. Shapiro is chief innovation evangelist for InnoCentive, a Waltham, Mass.-based innovation consultancy, and author of Personality Poker: The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation.

Ann Rhoades:

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose is the book that has impacted me the most during the past year. It reinforces the need for a very strong employee-centric culture. When you exceed your employees’ expectations, they in turn will exceed your customers’ expectations, and Hsieh’s book illustrates this concept beautifully.
Ms. Rhoades is founder and president of HR consultancy People Ink, former chief people officer of Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways, and author of Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture That Outperforms the Competition.

Mary C. Gentile:

Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals has useful insights for leaders everywhere—in business, government, NGOs, education, religious institutions, research, and the media. Grandin’s message marries the pragmatic and the compassionate: She is able to help humans figure out how to achieve or sometimes re-vision our own objectives precisely by attending to the needs and objectives (if you will permit me to call them that) of other animals. That is, she sees and senses and understands the needs of other species precisely because she is not mired in the senses and understanding of her own. And she is able to do this because she herself is autistic. In other words, she understands more—in this particular realm of life—specifically because she does not fit the parameters of “normal” behavior and perception. For the leader who wants to both achieve a certain set of social objectives as well as to ensure that those very objectives make sense in our interdependent world, Grandin’s example of seeing differently, seeing anew, and seeing through the eyes and minds and hearts of others who are both very different and not so different at all is an invaluable gift.
Ms. Gentile is senior research scholar at Babson College and author of Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right.

Kay-Yut Chen:
Scott Page’s The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies is a book about diversity without the political correctness. It shows, and even demonstrates with mathematics, that differences can be helpful to decision-making and problem-solving. Many insights and ideas from the book are useful in my line of work—optimizing human behavior in business processes.
Mr. Chen is a principal scientist in the Information Services & Process Innovation Lab at HP Labs and co-author of Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business.

Rick Kash:

In The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria provides a well-reasoned and realistic understanding of America’s new role in the world’s economy. Rather than seeing an America in decline, Zakaria paints an optimistic picture of a vibrant global economy in which developing nations will carry more of the responsibility for creating high levels of profitable demand in which all economies will participate. He creates a fact-based argument that motivates the reader while building a resonating vision. It’s abundantly clear that America is not in decline—rather, it is the rest of the world that is on the rise. America’s glass will remain far more than half full for a long time to come.
Mr. Kash is founder and CEO of The Cambridge Group, a Chicago-based growth and strategy consultancy, and co-author of How Companies Win: Profiting From Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In.

Peter Chapman:

I recently enjoyed re-reading The Silver Bears, the late Paul Erdman’s 1974 novel about a failed effort to corner the silver market. Nelson and William Hunt tried it with no greater success a few years later. The book proved an excellent way to relax—in addition to a great deal of knowledge, Erdman wrote with a lightness of touch and sense of fun. Hence I have just ordered and soon will re-read his novel The Billion Dollar Killing.
Mr. Chapman is FT.com sport and feature editor and author of The Last of the Imperious Rich: Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008.

Mark Murphy:

If ever there was a year we needed a reminder about mojo, 2010 was it. Marshall Goldsmith’s Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It explains mojo as that positive spirit that starts from within and then radiates out, providing the motivation we need to get things done, make critical changes, and live a better life. I found an important roadmap to meaning and happiness in this engaging and practical book. But here’s the most critical lesson I took from Goldsmith: You control your own mojo. Regardless of the chaos around you, no matter how many exogenous shocks your life and career experience, your mojo is yours to keep or increase. Inertia doesn’t have to rule our lives; we don’t have to drift through our days or, worse, fall prey to the blame, excuses, fear, and entitlement around us. This is a book that says, “You can have meaning and fulfillment every day of your life.”
Mr. Murphy is CEO of Leadership IQ, a Washington, D.C.-based research and executive education consultancy, and author of HARD Goals: The Secret to Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

Don Hutson:

Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect: Multiplying Your Success One Simple Step at a Time is about multiplying your success through simple yet powerful strategies for improvement. Whether your goal is to lose weight, to increase your conversion rate of prospects to buyers, or to improve your leadership skills, Hardy’s book will help you go to the next level. It is about precise processes, accountable follow up, and the discipline to stick with your plan. Readers will improve their habits and learn the principles of positive momentum.
Mr. Hutson is CEO of U.S. Learning Inc., a Memphis-based corporate training firm, and co-author of The One Minute Entrepreneur and The One Minute Negotiator.

Marcia Blenko:

Bill Jensen and Josh Klein’s Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results captures an essential truth, which is that some of the most important decisions businesses face are made and executed by people on or close to the front line. Yet many organizations suppress the initiative of front-line employees. Jensen and Klein demonstrate how important it is to create an environment where people are encouraged to think for themselves and do the right thing, ideally supported rather than inhibited by the organizational system in which they work. The book focuses on “benevolent hackers,” those who bend or break the rules to increase their own productivity in the interest of benefiting the company. Some hacks are small—finding ways for a team to share electronic files, for example, when corporate IT doesn’t offer the capability. Others start small and grow big, like Best Buy’s Blue Shirt Nation, which is now a social-networking platform for 100,000 employees but started as a small site using open-source tools. Technology is a key enabler of many of the hacks, but others rely on networking and relationship-building to get around rigid processes. Underneath the barbs at today’s large corporations, the authors have a serious message: Companies should start thinking about the “employee experience” as much as they do the “customer experience,” embracing hacking to help them improve how people collaborate, make decisions, and get things done on the front-lines. An even more serious point is that soon, companies won’t have a choice.
Ms. Blenko is head of global organization practice at Bain & Co. and co-author of Decide & Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization.

Francis J. Gouillart:

Michael Eisner’s Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed will touch your heart through the simple stories of friendship it tells, and it will enlighten you on how successful leaders often team up with a less emblematic alter ego who gets things done in the shadow. Starting with the story of his relationship with Frank Wells at Disney, Eisner illustrates how early interactions such as the acceptance of a lesser title or the awkward sharing of an office form the basis for great relationships. There is no leadership framework in this book, yet the stories of how Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Joe Torre, and Valentino each relies on a humble partner to succeed will send you searching for your own business soul mate.
Mr. Gouillart is president of the Experience Co-Creation Partnership and co-author of The Power of Co-Creation: Build It With Them to Boost Growth, Productivity, and Profits.

John Torinus Jr.:

There is no fiercer critic of Obamacare than Sally Pipes, CEO of the Pacific Research Institute and a self-described refugee from the health system of Canada. Her book The Truth About Obamacare is a no-holds-barred dissection of the 2,409 pages of legalese that Congress passed and the president signed earlier this year. Most analysts are trying to figure out how to cope with the maddening complexities of the new law. The clear-headed Pipes slices and dices its deficiencies, pointing out that the good intentions of the law will be undone by its emphasis on top-down government mandates rather than marketplace innovations. The experience at my company, Serigraph, says Pipes is right. Costs can be contained. Obamacare deals with insurance reform, not reform of the way health care is delivered; the new law ducks the real issue in health care—soaring costs—and actually will end up boosting costs and prices. Pipes writes: “Obamacare was supposed to make health care cheaper for all of us. Instead, it’s going to drive up the prices of everything from tax bills to wheelchairs.” We at Serigraph are afraid that the mandates in the new regulations being written to flesh out Obamacare will bring to an end our seven-year track record of keeping healthcare costs under control for the company and its workers.
Mr. Torinus is chairman of Serigraph Inc. and author of The Company That Solved Health Care: How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing Costs While Providing Better Care, and How Every Company Can Do the Same.

Robin Lewis:

I was blown away by Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves. A page-turner for me, stronger than any fiction I have ever read, I was totally able to project myself into the eleventh-hour crisis meetings as though I were an invisible observer. Helped somewhat by the 24/7 media coverage of the financial catastrophe, I was able to put faces and characteristics to the names of the seminal players. But Sorkin went beyond the news and actually got inside their heads and emotions, grippingly portraying how they individually and collectively faced and experienced disaster and, finally, how they managed to prevent total collapse. The profound message that lingers ominously in my mind regarding our economic future is that if any entity, the government included, is too big to fail, it is also too big to understand, which means this kind of a meltdown is sure to happen again. And next time around, it will be worse.
Mr. Lewis is CEO of The Robin Report, a retail consultancy, and co-author of The New Rules of Retail: Competing in the World’s Toughest Marketplace.

Paul Assaiante and James Zug:

Two lessons emerge from Michael Lewis’s absorbing The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. One: Tell a story. You’ll wade through thickets of jargon and minutiae—in The Big Short, it is tranches and credit default swaps and mortgage derivatives—if you care about the story. Lewis humanizes a complicated narrative, so each day you can’t wait to return to climb into bed and read another chapter. In business reports, memos, and evaluations, always write about people’s fears and dreams, not just the facts. Two: Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. The characters in The Big Short expended a great deal of emotional energy and time on challenging not only the conventional wisdom (the core premise of one of Lewis’ earlier gems, Moneyball) but every sales pitch they got. Optimism is as essential to daily life as a cup of coffee, but a tiny pinch of paranoia, it turns out, makes it go down smoothly.
Messrs. Assaiante and Zug are co-authors of Run to the Roar: Coaching to Overcome Fear, the story behind Assaiante’s college sports record for consecutive wins.

Eric J. Weiner:

Many books about the recent financial crisis rely on pithy narratives and dramatic incidents to describe what went wrong. But Chicago finance professor Raghuram G. Rajan, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, thinks this approach is too simplistic. In Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, Rajan, who warned of the coming meltdown back in 2005, shows how a combination of structural fault lines in the global economy triggered the previous financial collapse. And what’s more, these flaws still exist, meaning that the same mistakes are likely to be repeated if these issues aren’t addressed. The solutions Rajan proposes are bold but also sensible and workable. Whether global leaders will be smart enough to implement them is another question.
Mr. Weiner is author of The Shadow Market: How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World.

Bill Conaty:
How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins had a great impact on me. The need he stresses for putting the “right people in the right seats” rings true. It’s the key to long-term business success.

Mr. Conaty is former senior VP for HR at General Electric and co-author of The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers.

Source: http://www.tcbreview.com/best-business-books-2011.php

The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/)

Hardcover Business Books

1 RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner. (Times Books/Holt, $30.) This account of the Wall Street implosion highlights individuals who played crucial roles of responsibility.

2 CAR GUYS VS. BEAN COUNTERS, by Bob Lutz. (Portfolio/Penguin, $26.95.) American manufactures focus should be on product quality not on quarterly projections.

3 THE 4-HOUR WORKWEEK, by Timothy Ferriss. (Crown, $22.) Reconstructing your life so that it’s not all about work.

4 THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER, by Dave Ramsey. (Thomas Nelson, $24.99.) Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host.

5 TOMATOLAND, by Barry Estabrook. (Andrews McMeel, $19.99.) The history and agribusiness of today’s mass-produced tomato industry.

6 SWITCH, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. (Broadway Business, $26.) How everyday people can effect transformative change at work and in life.

7 STRENGTHS-BASED LEADERSHIP, by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie. (Gallup, $24.95.) Three keys to being a more effective leader.

8 MOST IMPORTANT THING, by Howard Marks. (Columbia University Press, $29.95.) Successful investments are guided by thoughtful attention.

9 DELIVERING HAPPINESS, by Tony Hsieh. (Business Plus, $23.99.) Lessons from business (pizza place, worm farm, Zappos) and life.

10 GET RICH CLICK!, by Marc Ostrofsky. (Razor, $19.95.) An Internet entrepreneur’s strategies for earning money online.

11 KNOWING YOUR VALUE, by Mika Brzezinski. (Weinstein, $22.95.) Exploring what women can do to get the compensation they have earned.

12 MONEY CLASS, by Suze Orman. (Spiegel & Grau, $26.) The noted personal financial adviser offers a reconsideration of the American dream.

13 ENCHANTMENT, by Guy Kawasaki. (Portfolio/Penguin, $26.95.) A former Apple employee explains how to gain professionally and personally by bringing about change in others.

14 REWORK, by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. (Crown Business, $22.) Counterintuitive rules for small-business success, like “Ignore the details early on” and “Good enough is fine.”

15 THANK YOU ECONOMY, by Gary Vaynerchuk. (Harper Business/HarperCollins, $24.99.) Tips on using social media tools to connect to customers.

Source:  http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-08-21/hardcover-business-books/list.html

Paperback Business Books

1 OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent.

2 DRIVE, by Daniel H. Pink. (Riverhead, $16.) A look at what truly motivates us, and how we can use that knowledge to work smarter and live better.

3 THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little Brown, $15.99.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.

4 TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin. (Penguin, $18.) The 2008 financial implosion on Wall Street and in Washington, by a New York Times business columnist.

5 FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) A maverick scholar and a journalist apply economic theory to everything from cheating sumo wrestlers to the falling crime rate.

6 THE BIG SHORT, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) The people who saw the real estate crash coming and made billions from their foresight

7 THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO, by Atul Gawande. (Picador, $15.) A simple way to manage complexity.

8 SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) How to apply economic theory to everything: the sequel.

9 UNFAIR ADVANTAGE, by Robert T. Kiyosaki. (Plata, $16.95.) Author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” talks about the five unfair advantages of a real financial education.

10 LIAR’S POKER, by Michael Lewis. (Norton, $15.95.) Wall Street’s tumultuous 1980s, as witnessed by a young bond trader.

Source:  http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2011-08-21/paperback-business-books/list.html?date=2011-08-21&category=paperback-business-books&pagewanted=print

MoneyHacker.com (http://www.investinternals.com/)

“Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul” by Howard Schultz, Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2011: Onward is not a puff piece. In just under 400 brisk pages, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz details the multitude of factors–the recession, new consumer behavior, overexpansion–that led to the company’s downturn during 2007-2008.

“Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions” by Guy Kawasaki, Apple’s former chief evangelist leads businessfolk down the path to enchantment. The entrepreneur’s entrepreneur is back with his 10th book, this time tackling the tricky art of influence and persuasion.

“Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization” by David Logan, The authors, management consultants and partners of JeffersonLarsonSmith, offer a fascinating look at corporate tribes.

“In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives” by Steven Levy, The contradictions of the Internet search behemoth are teased apart in this engaging, slightly starry-eyed business history. Wired magazine writer Levy (Hackers) insightfully recaps Google’s groundbreaking search engine and fabulously profitable online ad–brokering business, and elucidates the cutting-edge research and hard-nosed cost-efficiencies underlying them.

“Poke the Box” by Seth Godin, If you’re stuck at the starting line, you don’t need more time or permission. You don’t need to wait for a boss’s okay or to be told to push the button; you just need to poke.

“Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity” by Josh Linkner, “In today’s fiercely competitive global marketplace the most important resource any business has is the creative thinking of its people. In Disciplined Dreaming, Josh Linkner lays out a road map that will guide individuals, teams, and companies to higher levels of creativity.

“We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World” by Simon Mainwaring, “Social media–viral, borderless–is the perfect vehicle to promote “contributory consumerism,” and Mainwaring has fascinating suggestions for technological innovation and systemic change…the author’s enthusiasm and evidence make an excellent (and counterintuitive) case for big business’s ability to make major strides in creating a more equitable world.”

“The Thank You Economy” by Gary Vaynerchuk, on The Thank You Economy The Thank You Economy is much more than saying “thank you.” The Thank You Economy represents a much bigger movement. This book could easily have been called The Humanization of Business or Manners Marketing.

“Beyond Wealth: The Road Map to a Rich Life” by Alexander Green, It’s not all about the money; the key to true richesLeo Tolstoy said, “Nobody knows where the human race is going. The highest wisdom, then, is to know where you are going.” Yet many today chase the false rabbits of success: status, luxury, reputation and material possessions.

“Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything” by John Mauldin, The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything, Mauldin and Tepper pull no punches and get directly the point. …Endgame is a veritable trip around the world, as Mauldin lays out the uncomfortable choices facing nearly every major country.

Source:  http://www.investinternals.com/2011/06/amazon-best-business-books-2011.html

Bloomberg Business Week (http://www.businessweek.com)

Salary Tutor
Learn the Salary Negotiation Techniques No One Ever Taught You
By Jim Hopkinson
144 pages, paperback
Business Plus, $13.99

Breaking the Fear Barrier
How Fear Destroys Companies from the Outside and What to Do About It
By Tom Rieger
151 pages, hard cover
Gallup Press,$24.95

Beyond the Lean Revolution
Achieving Successful and Sustainable Enterprise Transformation
By Deborah J. Nightingale and Jayakanth Srinivasan
256 pages, hard cover
Amacom, $34.95

The Big Enough Company
Creating a Business That Works for You
By Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams
278 pages, hard cover
Portfolio Penguin,$25.95

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The Corporate Lattice
Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work
By Cathleen Benko and Molly Anderson
224 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $29.95

Getting More
How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World
By Stuart Diamond
416 pages, hard cover
Crown, $30

Practically Radical
Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself
By William C. Taylor
320 pages, hard cover
William Morrow, $27.99

Naturally Selected
The Evolutionary Science of Leadeship
By Mark van Vugt and Anjana Ahuja
272 pages, hard cover
Harper Business, $25.99

The Big Payback
The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
By Dan Charnas
672 pages, hard cover
New American Library, $24.95

The Startup Game
Inside the Partnerships Between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs
By William H. Draper III
272 pages, hard cover
Palgrave MacMillan, $28

The Talent Masters
Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
By Bill Conaty and Ram Charan
320 pages, hard cover
Crown Business, $27.50

The Dentsu Way
Secrets of Cross-Switch Marketing from the World’s Most Innovative Advertising Agency
By Kotaro Sugiyama and Tim Andree
282 pages, hard cover
McGraw-Hill, $28

Crash of the Titans
Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
By Greg Farrell
471 pages, hard cover
Crown Business, $27

Undercover Boss
Inside the TV Phenomenon That Is Changing Bosses and Employees Everywhere
Stephen Lambert and Eli Holzman, with Mark Levine
255 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $24.95

Mess Management
Lessons from a Corporate Hit Man
By Steve M. Cohen
155 pages, paperback
AuthorHouse, $14.99

The Power of Pull
How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
By John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison
277 pages, hard cover
Basic Books, $27.50

The Monster
How a Gang of Predatory Lenders And Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America–And Spawned a Global Crisis
By Michael W. Hudson
384 pages, hard cover
Times Books, $25

Faster Cheaper Better
The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done
By Michael Hammer and Lisa W. Hershman
320 pages, hard cover
Crown Business, $27.50

American Colossus
The Triumph of Capitalism
By H.W. Brands
624 pages, hard cover
Doubleday, $35

Leadership Rules
How to Become the Leader You Want to Be
By Chris Widener
176 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $18.95

Mergers & Acquisitions
From A to Z
By Andrew J. Sherman
336 pages, hard cover
Amacom, $35

Your Life, Uploaded
The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity
By Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
288 pages, paperback
Plume, $16

Staying Power
Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World
By Michael A. Cusumano
351 pages, hard cover
Oxford University, $27.95

The Talent Masters
Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers
By Bill Conaty and Ram Charan
301 pages, hard cover
Crown Business, $27.50

Her Place at the Table
A Woman’s Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
By Deborah M. Kolb, Judith Williams, and Carol Frohlinger
250 pages, paperback
Jossey-Bass, $19.95

Carrots and Sticks
Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done
By Ian Ayres
218 pages, hard cover
Bantam, $26

The Mesh
Why the Future of Business Is Sharing
Lisa Gansky
256 pages, hard cover
Portfolio, $25.95

Be a Brilliant Business Writer
Write Well, Write Fast, and Whip the Competition
By Jane Curry and Diana Young
214 pages, paperback
Ten Speed Press, $13.99

Buy In
Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
By John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead
190 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Review Press, $22

Cultivating Conscience
How Good Laws Make Good People
By Lynn A. Stout
328 pages, cloth cover
Princeton University Press, $27.95

Advantage
How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge
By Adam Segal
288 pages, hard cover
Norton, $26.95

What I Didn’t Learn in Business School
How Strategy Works in the Real World
By Jay B. Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford
234 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Review Press, $25.95

Inside Change
Transforming Your Organization with Emotional Intelligence
By Joshua Freedman and Massimiliano Ghini
255 pages, paperback
Six Seconds, $19.95

King of Capital
The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
By David Carey and John E. Morris
391 pages, hard cover
Crown Business, $27.50

The Power of Co-Creation
Build It with Them to Boost Growth, Productivity, and Profits
By Venkat Ramaswamy and Francis Gouillart
288 pages, hard cover
Free Press, $28

Clutch
Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don’t
By Paul Sullivan
246 pages, hard cover
Portfolio, $25.95

Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink
Why 40% of Your Business Is Unprofitable and How to Fix It
By Jonathan L.S. Byrnes
289 pages, hard cover
Portfolio, $27.95

Effortless Entrepreneur
Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions
By Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman
260 pages, paperback
Three Rivers Press, $15

Retooling HR
Using Proven Business Tools to Make Better Decisions About Talent
By John W. Boudreau
212 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $35

Hard Goals
The Secrets to Getting Where You Want to Be
By Mark Murphy
224 pages, hard cover
McGraw-Hill, $28

Black Faces in White Places
10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness
By Randal Pinkett and Jeffrey Robinson
288 pages, hard cover
AMACOM, $24.95

Breakthrough!
The 7-Step System for Developing Unexpected and Profitable Ideas
By Paul Kurnit and Steve Lance
224 pages, hard cover
AMACOM, $22.95

How Companies Win
Profiting from Demand-Driven Business Models No Matter What Business You’re In
By Rick Kash and David Calhoun
272 pages, hard cover
Harper Business, $26.99

The One Minute Negotiator
Simple Steps to Reach Better Agreements
By Don Hutson and George Lucas
140 pages, hard cover
Berrett Koehler$21.95

Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More
By Stever Robbins
225 pages, paperback
St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99

Weaving Dreams
The Joy of Work, the Love of Life
By Tami Longaberger with Jane Graham
251 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $24.95

Driving with No Brakes
How a Bunch of Hooligans Built the Best Travel Company in the World
By Alan and Harriet Lewis
225 pages, paperback
Grand Circle Corporation, $19.95

It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss
The Step-by-Step Program for Making the Best of Your Most Important Relationship at Work
By Bruce Tulgan
202 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $23.95

Send
Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better
By David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
274 pages, paperback
Vintage Books Trade, $14.95

*Me 2.0*
*4 Steps to Building Your Future (Revised Edition)*
By Dan Schawbel
288 pages, paperback
Kaplan Publishing, $14.99

Giving Voice to Values
How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right
By Mary C. Gentile
273 pages, hard cover
Yale University Press, $26

The AMA Handbook of Project Management (Third Edition)
Edited by Paul C. Dinsmore and Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin
544 pages, hard cover
Amacom, $79.95

Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers
By Stan Slap
272 pages, hard cover
Portfolio, $25.95

Personality Poker
The Playing Card Tool for Driving High-Performance Teamwork and Innovation
By Shephen M. Shapiro
272 pages (includes a deck of personality poker playing cards), hard cover
Portfolio/Penguin Group, $25.95

The Happiness Advantage
The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
By Shawn Achor
272 pages, hard cover
Random House, $25

Selling to Anyone Over the Phone
By Renee P. Walkup with Sandra McKee
224 pages, paperback
Amacom, $17.95

Reality-Based Leadership
Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, & Turn Excuses into Results
By CY Wakeman
224 pages, hardcover
Jossey-Bass, $27.95

Decide & Deliver
5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
By Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins, and Paul Rogers
265 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $29.95

The 24-Hour Customer
New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy
By Adrian Ott
240 pages, hard cover
HarperBusiness, $26.99

The Diversity Code
Unlock the Secrets to Making Differences Work in the Real World
By Michelle T. Johnson
256 pages, paperback
Amacom, $19.95

The Dragonfly Effect
Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change
By Jennifer Aacker and Andy Smith, with Carlye Adler
256 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $25.95

The Unwritten Rules
The 6 Skills You Need to Get Promoted to the Executive Level
By John Beeson
240 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $27.95

The Orange Revolution
How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization
By Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
260 pages, hard cover
Free Press, $24

Fair Pay, Fair Play
Aligning Executive Performance and Pay
By Robin A. Ferracone
288 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $34.95

Managing the Older Worker
How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order
By Peter Cappelli and Bill Novelli
208 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Review Press, $29.95

E-Habits
What You Must Do to Optimize Your Professional Digital Presence
By Elizabeth Charnock
250 pages, hard cover
McGraw-Hill, $22.95

Good Boss, Bad Boss
How to Be the Best…and Learn from the Worst
By Robert I. Sutton
306 pages, hard cover
Business Plus, $23.99

SuperCompetent
The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best
By Laura Stack
256 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $24.95

Trailblazers
How Top Business Leaders Are Accelerating Results Through Inclusion and Diversity
By Redia Anderson and Lenora Billings-Harris
256 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

The Custom-Fit Workplace
Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost the Bottom Line
By Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas
219 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $25.95

Well Connected
An Unconventional Approach to Building Genuine, Effective Business Relationships
By Gordon S. Curtis with Greg Lewis
230 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $26.95

Comebacks at Work
Mastering Confrontation and Taking Control of How People Treat You
By Kathleen Kelley Reardon with Christopher T. Noblet
256 pages, hard cover
Harper Business, $24.99

The Intangibles of Leadership
10 Qualities of Superior Executive Performance
By Richard Davis, PhD
256 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $29.95

The New Experts
Win Today’s Newly Empowered Customers at Their 4 Decisive Moments
By Robert H. Bloom
160 pages, hard cover
Greenleaf Book Group Press, $18.95

The New Job Security (revised)
The 5 Best Strategies for Taking Control of Your Career
By Pam Lassiter
240 pages, paperback
Ten Speed Press, $14.99

When the Headline Is You
An Insider’s Guide to Handling the Media
By Jeff Ansell and Jeff Leeson
240 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $29.95

The Drucker Lectures
Essential Lessons on Management, Society, and Economy
By Peter F. Drucker (with an introduction by Rick Wartzman)
266 pages, hard cover
McGraw-Hill, $29.95

Long Fuse, Big Bang
Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories
By Eric Haseltine
249 pages, hard cover
Hyperion, $24.99

The Naked Millionaire
The Ultimate Fast Track Guide to Wealth, Freedom, and Fulfillment
By David Taylor
224 pages, paperback
Wiley, $19.95

It’s Not Just Who You Know
Transform Your Life (And Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships
By Tommy Spaulding
240 pages, hard cover
Broadway Books, $23

The Truth About Sucking Up
How Authentic Self-Promotion Benefits You and Your Organization
By Gina Hernez-Broome, Cindy McLaughlin, and Stephanie Trovas
105 pages, paperback
CCL Press, $25

The Now Habit at Work
Perform Optimally, Maintain Focus, and Ignite Motivation in Yourself and Others
By Neil A. Fiore
204 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $22.95

The Art of Business Seduction
A 30-Day Plan to Get Noticed, Get Promoted, and Get Ahead
By Mark Jeffries
224 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $22.95

The Female Vision
Women’s Real Power at Work
By Sally Helgesen and Julie Johnson
192 pages, paperback
BK Publishers, $19.95

No Excuses
The Power of Self-Discipline
By Brian Tracy
293 pages, hard cover
Vanguard Press, $25.95

The E-Myth Attorney
Why Most Legal Practices Don’t Work and What to Do About It
By Michael E. Gerber, Robert Armstrong, and Sanford Fisch
204 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $24.95

Well-Connected
The Breakthrough Method for Building Truly Effective Business Relationships
By Gordon S. Curtis
240 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $31.95

Occupational Outlook Handbook 2010-2011
By The U.S. Department of Labor
896 pages, paperback
Skyhorse Publishing, $14.95

All Hands on Deck
Building a Culture of Ownership
By Joe Tye
224 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

Win at Work!
The Everybody Wins Approach to Conflict Resolution
By Diane Katz
256 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $24.95

Shift
How to Reinvent Your Business, Your Career, and Your Personal Brand
By Peter Arnell
206 pages, hard cover
Broadway, $23

The Power of Positive Deviance
How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World’s Toughest Problems
By Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin, and Monique Sternin
231 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $26.95

Working Moms Are More Successful
Business Lessons You Can’t Afford to Ignore
By MaryEllen Tribby
256 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

How to Give a Pretty Good Presentation
A Speaking Survival Guide for the Rest of Us
By TJ Walker
224 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $19.99

The Why of Work
How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations That Win
By Dave Ulrich and Wendy Ulrich
291 pages, hard cover
McGraw-Hill, $27.95

Multipliers
How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
By Liz Wiseman
255 pages, hard cover
Harper Business, $25.99

Living for The Weekday
What Every Employee and Boss Needs to Know About Enjoying Work and Life
By Clint Swindall
240 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

The Age of the Infovore
Succeeding in the Information Economy
By Tyler Cowen
272 pages, paperback
Plume, $16

Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain
Lessons from Warren Buffet’s Top Business Leaders
By Ronald W. Chan
224 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $24.95

Soup
A Fable About Boosting Employee Engagement
By Jon Gordon
176 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $22.95

Strategic Speed
Mobilize People, Accelerate Execution
By Jocelyn R. Davis, Edwin H. Boswell, and Henry M. Frechette
240 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $29.99

Click
The Magic of Instant Connections
By Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
224 pages, hard cover
Broadway Business, $23

Social Entrepreneurship
What Everyone Needs to Know
By David Bornstein and Susan Davis
147 pages, paperback
Oxford University Press, $16.95

Heroic Leadership
Leading with Integrity and Honor
By William A. Cohen
275 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $33.95

Change Leader
Learning to Do What Matters Most
By Michael Fullan
186 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

Real-Time Marketing for Business Growth
How to Use Social Media, Measure Marketing, and Create a Culture of Execution
By Monique Reece
408 pages, paperback
FT Press, $39.99

Comebacks
Powerful Lessons from Leaders Who Endured Setbacks and Recaptured Success on Their Terms
By Andrea Redmond and Patricia B. Crisafulli
240 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

Balanced Scorecard
Measures That Drive Performance
By Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
64 pages, paperback
Harvard Business Press, $8.95

The Complete Manager
Essential Tips and Techniques for Managers
Edited by John H. Zenger
472 pages, paperback
McGraw-Hill, $19.95

Becoming a Successful Manager
Powerful Tools for Making a Smooth Transition to a Managing Team
By J. Robert Parkinson and Gary Grossman
215 pages, paperback
McGraw-Hill, $16.95

Plugged
Dig Out & Get the Right Things Done, 3 Tools for PAR at Work
By Krissi Barr and Dan Barr
115 pages, hard cover
Clerisy Press, $19.95

Open Leadership
How Social Technology Can Change the Way You Lead
By Charlene Li
288 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $27.95

Financing the Future
Market-Based Innovations for Growth
By Franklin Allen and Glenn Yago
256 pages, hard cover
Wharton School Publishing, $29.99

Strategic Intent
By Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
64 pages, paperback
Harvard Business Press, $8.95

Influence
How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better
By Maddy Dychtwald with Christine Larson
241 pages, hard Cover
Voice, $24.99

168 Hours
You Have More Time Than You Think
By Laura Vanderkam
256 pages, hard cover
Portfolio, $25.95

Work Your Strengths
A Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills And Match Them to the Best Career for You
By Chuck Martin, Richard Guare, and Peg Dawson
256 pages, hard cover
Amacom, $21.95

Effective Immediately
How to Fit in, Stand out, and Move up at Your First Real Job
By Emily Bennington and Skip Lineberg
210 pages, paperback
Ten Speed Press, $14.99

Workforce of One
Revolutionizing Talent Management Through Customization
By Susan Cantrell and David Smith
320 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $35

Zilch
The Power of Zero in Business
By Nancy Lublin
238 pages, hard cover
Portfolio, $25.95

Leading Change
Why Transformation Efforts Fail
By John P. Kotter
64 pages, paperback
Harvard Business Press, $8.95

Failure to Communicate
How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them
By Holly Weeks
256 pages, paperback
Harvard Business Press, $14.95

Get Rid of the Performance Review!
How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing–and Focus on What Really Matters
By Samuel Culbert
256 pages, hard cover
Business Plus, $24.99

One Page Talent Management
Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value
By Marc Effron and Miriam Ort
200 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $29.95

Reflections on Management
How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself
By Watts S. Humphrey with William R. Thomas
288 pages, paperback
Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional, $34.99

The Risk Takers
16 Women And Men Share Their Entrepreneurial Strategies for Success
By Renee and Don Martin
280 pages, hard cover
Vanguard Press, $25.95

How to Get Fired!
The New Employee’s Guide to Perpetual Unemployment
By Jeff Havens
272 pages, paperback
Big Pow! Books, $14.95

Making It Big in Software
Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great
by Sam Lightstone
438 pages
Pearson/Prentice Hall Professional, $24.99

The Yes Factor
Get What You Want, Say What You Mean
By Tonya Reiman
299 pages, hard cover
Hudson Street Press, $25.95

Happiness At Work
Maximizing Your Psychological Capital For Success
By Jessica Pryce-Jones
241 pages, trade paperback
Wiley-Blackwell, $24.95

Your Million Dollar Dream
Create a Winning Business Plan. Turn Your Passion into Profit. Regain Control and Be Your Own Boss
By Tamara Monosoff
336 pages, paperback
McGraw-Hill, $19.95

Mastering the Complex Sale (Second Edition)
How to Compete and Win When the Stakes Are High
By Jeff Thull
271 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $24.95

Do More Great Work
Stop the Busywork and Start the Work that Matters
by Michael Bungay Stanier
200 pages, paperback
Workman Publishing, $11.95

Toward the Next Economics
And Other Essays
By Peter F. Drucker
208 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $29.95

Do You Want to Keep Your Customers Forever?
(Harvard Business Review Classics series)
By B. Joseph Pine II, Don Peppers, and Martha Rogers
64 pages, paperback
Harvard Business Press, $8.95

Leading Outside the Lines
How to Mobilize the (in)Formal Organization, Energize Your Team, and Get Better Results
by Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan
256 pages, hard cover
Jossey-Bass, $27.95

The Changing World of the Executive
By Peter F. Drucker
224 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, April $29.95

Rethinking the MBA
Business Education at a Crossroads
By Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. Cullen
352 pages, hardcover
Harvard Business Press

The Power of Pull
How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
By John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison
256 pages, hardcover
Basic Books, $26.95

Speaking Your Way to Success
How to Speak up, Speak Well, and Get Noticed in Today’s Workplace
By Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts
272 Pages
HMH, $13.95

The Practical Guide to Exceptional Living
Creating and Living the Life of Your Dreams
by Jim Garland
132 pages, paperback
Morgan James Publishing, $14.95

Robert’s Rules of Innovation
A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival
by Robert F. Brands and Martin J. Kleinman
208 pages, hard cover
Wiley, $34.95

Earth, Inc.
Using Nature’s Rules to Build Sustainable Profits
by Gregory Unruh
208 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $24.95

Get a Life, Not a Job
Do What You Love and Let Your Talents Work For You
by Paula Caligiuri
208 pages, paperback
FT Press, $18.95

Marketing Metrics
The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance (2nd Edition)
By Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, and David J. Reibstein
432 pages, hard cover
Wharton School Publishing, $39.99

The Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
By Walter Kiechel
352 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $26.95

The India Way
How India’s Top Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management
By Peter Cappelli, Harbir Singh, Jitendra Singh, and Michael Useem
304 pages, hard cover
Harvard Business Press, $29.95

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/management/new-business-books-07012011.html

Conclusion

So, get on down to the local coffee shop that masquerades as a giant book store, or better yet, start clicking on Amazon to get your reading started! And I really strongly recommend checking online reviews of any of these books – especially those from “real people” on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s websites – to see what they thought about the books to gauge your likelihood of finding a great match for your own interests.

About the Author

David C. Wyld (dwyld.kwu@gmail.com) is the Robert Maurin Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He is a management consultant, researcher/writer, and executive educator. His blog, Wyld About Management, can be viewed at http://wyldaboutmanagement.blogspot.com/. He also serves as the Director of the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://reverseauctionresearch.com/), a hub of research and news in the expanding world of competitive bidding. Dr. Wyld also maintains compilations of his student’s publications regarding:

• management concepts (http://toptenmanagement.blogspot.com/)
• book reviews (http://wyld-about-books.blogspot.com/) and
• international foods (http://wyld-about-food.blogspot.com/).