Top 10 Business Books of 2011

The Globe & Mail has released it's "Top 10 Business Books of the Year", with commentary by Harvey Schachter.

Here is the list with links to holdings of each book available at Western Libraries or affiliate university colleges.

1. The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity At Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer

2. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: the Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt

3. Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morten Hansen

4. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

5. Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? by Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran

6. Brainsteering: a Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas by Kevin Coyne and Shawn Coyne

7. Necessary Endings: the Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All Of Us Have to Give Up In Order to Move Forward by Henry Cloud

8. Change Anything: the New Science of Personal Success by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron Mcillan and Al Switzler

9. Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz

10. Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn From the NFL by Roger Martin

Additionally, Choice Reviews Online has put together a list of the best Business, Management, & Labour books of 2011:

1. Biech, Elaine. The ASTD leadership handbook.

2. Bapuji, Hari.  Not just China: the rise of recalls in the age of global business.

3. Barney, Jay B.  What I didn't learn in business school: how strategy works in the real world, by Jay B. Barney and Trish Gorman Clifford.   

4. Denning, Peter J.  The innovator's way: essential practices for successful innovation, by Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham.  

5. Drolet, Aimee and Norbert Schwarz, and Carolyn Yoon. The Aging consumer: perspectives from psychology and economics.

6. Lennick, Doug.  Moral intelligence 2.0: enhancing business performance and leadership success in turbulent times, by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel with Kathy Jordan.   

7. Liu, Lan.  Conversations on leadership: wisdom from global management gurus.  Jossey-Bass.

8. Miller, Michael.  The ultimate Web marketing guide. 

9. Nass, Clifford.  The man who lied to his laptop: what machines teach us about human relationships, by Clifford Nass with Corina Yen.  

10. O'Reilly, Terry.  The age of persuasion: how marketing ate our culture, by Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant.   

11. Rumelt, Richard P.  Good strategy, bad strategy: the difference and why it matters.  Crown, 2011. 

12. Tapscott, Don.  Macrowikinomics: rebooting business and the world, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.   

13. Underemployment: psychological, economic, and social challenges, ed. by Douglas C. Maynard and Daniel C. Feldman.   

14. Wachowicz's Web World: Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students, by John Wachowicz.     URL: http://web.utk.edu/~jwachowi/wacho_world.html 

Selected Economics Titles chose by Choice Reviews Online:

1. Carroll, William K.  The making of a transnational capitalist class: corporate power in the twenty-first century, by William K. Carroll with Colin Carson et al.   

2. Davis, Howard.  The financial crisis: who is to blame?  

3. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.  The financial crisis inquiry report: final report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States. 

4. Glaeser, Edward.  Triumph of the city: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier. 

5. Lynn, Matthew.  Bust: Greece, the euro, and the sovereign debt crisis.  Bloomberg, 2011. 

6. Madrick, Jeff.  Age of greed: the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present. 

7. Moran, Theodore H.  Foreign direct investment and development: launching a second generation of policy research: avoiding the mistakes of the first, reevaluating policies for developed and developing countries.

If there are any books on these lists that you are interested in and Western Libraries or affiliate university colleges do not have, try Requesting a Purchase of a librarian. You can also complete an Interlibrary Loan from another institution.