Looking for good business books? Perhaps you are a beginner just entering the business world or you are an experienced professional seeking the best management books. Let’s take a look at the 10 Best Books on Business of all time.
1. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
This book, by The Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez, shows us examples, stories, and case studies on how Women are ignored in society, a society built once time by Men, don’t take into consideration women’s needs. Unfortunately, these neglected adjustments affect women’s life and health in many significant ways.
2. Koshland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America
“Kochland” by Christopher Leonard is an exhaustive Business Book and Bestseller that takes us inside the Koch Industries, one of the most powerful and secret industrial empires in the US. Charles Koch, the CEO of Koch Industries, worked in deepest secrecy for 5 decades, and becomes, with his brother David, richer than Bill Gates.
3. Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons from the World’s Limits
Richard Davies goes beyond the beaten path and examinates questions about how economies succeed and fail, by telling stories concerning nowadays economic challenges, the author interprets the biggest economic questions, with valuable lessons for the future.
4. The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
Donald Sassoon analyses the influence of capitalism on the histories of many states from 1860 to 1914 and sheds light on How Innovation support capitalism in creating winners and losers.
A book of 768 pages isn’t commonly exciting to read but with the stimulating and argumentative style of one of Britain’s most wide-ranging historians; the book is worth the effort.
5. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
In a world that used to give higher value to specialization and in-depth expertise. Epstein marshals show that generalists or “switchers” develop more creative skills, and agility, than specialized peers.
By examining many successful personalities ( scientists, inventors, athletes, artists…); the author discovered that people who can embrace diverse experiences and perspectives will increasingly prosper in this world: A world where computers will master skills usually was reserved for only highly focused humans.
6. Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation
Many people wonder if new technologies affect negatively our lives, from social media that deprived us of our privacy, to the amount of false information we are digesting every day. In this book, John Browne debates that we need more engineering innovation in our life in order to create a better future.
7. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
This book by Gregory Zuckerman, a Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, answers questions about Jim Simons, the secretive founder of quant fund Renaissance Technologies and the greatest moneymaker in modern financial history. : Questions that investors have been asking for decades…
8. Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control
This book by Stuart Russel, a researcher in Artificial intelligence, sheds light on the biggest event in human history, that of creating superior intelligence. The authors describe How AI works, and its capacities to improve human life; but also, How can humans guarantee that they are not losing control over machines.
9. Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
This book, written by Safi Bahcall, a physicist, and biotech entrepreneur, and treats challenges of breakthrough innovation, and How can enterprises keep a balance between anarchy and stagnation, using a new way of thinking about group behavior and the power of new and crazy ideas in changing the world.
10. Equal: A Story of Women, Men, and Money
The inside story of journalist Carrie Gracie and Her fight with the gender pay gap at the BBC. This book is an insightful book about challenging inequal pay and reaching for equitable treatment in the workplace.
