Best Business Books
34 titles spanning autobiography, exposé, and how-to Mar 15, 2011Although pundits point to the healthier holiday retail season in 2010 as evidence of a recovering economy, slower-than-expected rates of job creation indicate an economic picture that is still affected by the financial crises of 2007–08. Readers hoping to understand better those crises now have plenty of options, as many intensively researched and accessibly written books on the subject were published in 2010.
Other hot categories were business histories—particularly stories about venerable organizations facing new challenges—and organizational dynamics treatises, in which authors call for businesses to rethink common approaches to employee management, leadership, and innovation. Click here for the annotations, and enjoy! [This article originally appeared in LJ’s e-newsletter BookSmack!, 1/6/11.]
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| Sarah Statz Cords, formerly a public librarian, is an Associate Editor for The Reader’s Advisor Online (www.readersadvisoronline.com/blog), published by Libraries Unlimited, and a regular book reviewer for LJ |
