Strategy+Business and BusinessWeek have published their best business books for 2007. Strategy+Buiness’s Best Business Books 2007 and BusinessWeek’s Best Business Books of the Year. There were a couple of books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity and Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software that I hadn’t seen and I’m interested in perusing. When I was in Montreal visiting Austin Hill I noticed his TED Book Club subscription.
My 2007 Reading List
- Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton
- The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
- Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- The 4-Hours Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
- Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson - Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Best Business Books 2007: s+b Top Shelf
- Innovation – Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton
- Innovation – The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun
- Innovation – Brilliant! Shuji Nakamura and the Revolution in Lighting Technology by Bob Johnstone
- Innovation – Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg
- Strategy – Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan
- Biotech – Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech by Gary P. Pisano
- Capitalism – Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw
- The Entrepreneurs – Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston
- The Entrepreneurs – Typo: The Last American Typesetter, or How I Made and Lost 4 Million Dollars by David Silverman
- The Entrepreneurs – No Man’s Land: What to Do When Your Company Is Too Big to Be Small but Too Small to Be Big by Doug Tatum
- The Entrepreneurs – Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can, Too! by Kim Lavine
- Behavioral Theory – Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger
- Behavioral Theory – The Social Atom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You by Mark Buchanan
- Behavioral Theory – A Crowd of One: The Future of Individual Identity by John Henry Clippinger
- Human Capital – Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner
- Biography – Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
Business Week’s Best Business Books of the Year
- In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce
- Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia by Joe Studwell
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing to Success Leads to Failure by Michael E. Raynor
- Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business by John Newhouse
- The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of the Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea by Steve LeVine
- The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty by Julia Flynn
- The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O’Clery
- Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back by John Kao
It would be great to do a list of design books. What design books would make your list?
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this post is gold!
Dude! Is that 2007 list the books you read already, or the ones you hope to nail in the next 13 days?
On design books:
My top recommendation for the last month has been Papernak's Design for the real world. He totally kicks ass.
He deflates the misguided pretensions of many designers, and writes passionately and directly about what designers are supposed to be doing (and he wrote this 25 years before product design and green became mainstream). It's a unusually raw book & part manifesto, part skills education, part stories of experience, but it works.
I don't consider a person a well-read designer if they haven't given this book a spin.
My reading list is the ones I've already knocked off. However, I'm not quite done Founders at Work . I've spent a lot of time on airplanes this year.
David, nice site. Thanks for putting up the Biz Week list.
Best,
Steve LeVine, author
The Oil and the Glory
http://www.oilandglory.com
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