The best books to advance your career

The management consultants from Strategy& (formerly known as Booz & Company) have done the hard work and have actually read this year’s relevant business books in several categories. No matter if you want to brush up your knowledge on strategy, marketing or decision-making – here are the books that are really worth reading, according to the experts.

Strategy
J.-C. Spender
Business Strategy: Managing Uncertainty, Opportunity, and Enterprise
(Oxford University Press, 2014)

Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney
Fewer, Bigger, Bolder: From Mindless Expansion to Focused Growth
(Penguin Portfolio, 2014)

John P. Kotter
Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)

Organizational Culture

Richard Sheridan
Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love
(Portfolio/Penguin, 2013)

Malachi O’Connor and Barry Dornfeld
The Moment You Can’t Ignore: When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future
(PublicAffairs, 2014)

Dave Eggers
The Circle
(Knopf, 2013)

Executive Self-Improvement

Phil Rosenzweig
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
(PublicAffairs, 2014)

Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel B. Rasmussen
The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)

Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
It’s Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2014)

Marketing

Niraj Dawar
Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2013)

Barry Wacksman and Chris Stutzman
Connected by Design: 7 Principles for Business Transformation through Functional Integration
(Jossey-Bass, 2014)

Tim Halloran
Romancing the Brand: How Brands Create Strong, Intimate Relationships with Consumers
(Jossey-Bass, 2014)

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