best business books

Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism by Tom Peters (Networlding Publishing and un/teaching, 2021) Tom Peters is an older man in a hurry. In his short new volume, he tells us things…

Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite by Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephan Friedrich von den Eichen (MIT Press, 2021) In July 2019,…

Unstoppable: Siggi B. Wilzig’s Astonishing Journey from Auschwitz Survivor and Penniless Immigrant to Wall Street Legend by Joshua M. Greene (Insight Editions, 2021) Each word in…

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy by Adam Tooze (Viking, 2021) Crashed, Adam Tooze’s seminal 2018 history of the global financial crisis and its aftermath, ends with…

Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being by Rob Cross (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021) In the 1920s, Mary Parker Follett…

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021) For a certain kind of person, just reading the title of Oliver Burkeman’s…

Your Computer Is On Fire edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip (MIT Press, 2021) A simple ethos guides many executives today: build…