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?
