Editor's Choice
Our decades worth of experience and extensive knowledge of business books allows us to put the latest releases in a larger context for readers. Our editorial director reviews the latest and greatest books in the genre—and those adjacent to it—each and every week to do just that.
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Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Tim Harford has written another great economic history that helps reveal how the modern economy came to be, and the benefits and risks associated with invention.
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The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the Ten Commitments That Drive Sales
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Really good, humane and effective sales books don’t come around too often, so when they do you should snatch them up. Anthony Iannarino's new book is one of them.
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Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
William M. Fowler Jr.'s new maritime history is the perfect book to take to the beach this summer.
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Howard Markel has written a brilliant, expansive book of medical and industrial history, entrepreneurship and management, and a bitter sibling rivalry.
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Lead Right for Your Company's Type: How to Connect Your Culture with Your Customer Promise
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
William Schneider can help you ensure that your enterprise is a living system that is “continually adapting, learning, and developing.”
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Ryan Holiday has given us a guide to making creative work that lasts—beginning with the creative process itself, through the positioning and marketing of it, to building a platform upon it.
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Designed Leadership
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Moura Quayle's new book give readers is a great history of design thinking, a glimpse of its future, and the tools we need to bring it about.
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson have written a book with real human intelligence, concern, feeling, and values, about how the second machine age is reshaping business.
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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Brian Merchant provides a full history—human, cultural, and technological—of the device that has changed the world.
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Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin employ exquisite storytelling to teach us the importance for leaders to carve out some time for solitude.
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