As always, the end of the year brings out the ‘top ____ of 2011′ lists. Business books are no exception. Harvey Schachter of the Globe and Mail has produced his own top 10 list of the Best Business Books of 2011. We have seven of the ten in our collection right now, one on order and the other two will be ordered ASAP. Here’s the list:
- The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. We don’t have this one yet, but have added it to our ‘to order’ list.
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. We’ve ordered this one and we’re waiting for it to be shipped.
- Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen. Collins, author of Good to Great and other titles has released a new book on managing for success.
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. This biography on the late Steve Jobs is extremely popular right now. We have eleven copies in the system, but several holds. Place a reserve now and we’ll let you know when it’s available.
- Why Are We Bad At Picking Good Leaders? by Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran. Again, we don’t have this one yet, but have added it to our ‘to order’ list.
- Brainsteering by Kevin Coyne and Shawn Coyne. These brothers suggest new techniques to improve the brainstorming process.
- Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud. Clinical psychologist Dr. Cloud asks why we cling to things that are no longer working or effective, and talks about the need to face up to necessary endings.
- Change Anything by Kerry Patterson (and others). This book is catalogued more under the personal self-help section, but is definitely applicable to business. It looks at six sources of influence that affect our daily decision making and ways to make them work for us instead of against us.
- Onward: How Starbucks Fought for its Life Instead of Losing its Soul by Howard Schultz. Schultz, former CEO, wrote an earlier book about Starbucks. This new title tells of his return to a troubled Starbucks in 2008 and his efforts to rebuild it.
- Fixing the Game by Roger Martin. Martin, the dean of the Rotman School of Business at U of T, compares capitalism today with the NFL and proposes solutions to the cycle of bubbles and crashes.
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