Best Business Books of 2009
Need to get caught up on your reading? Don’t waste your time standing in the bookstore, guessing which will be worthwhile. 800-CEO-Read selected the best business books of 2009.
These are the winners in the 11 categories:
- Entrepreneurship and small business. Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur by Pamela Slim.
- Leadership. Maestro: A Surprising Story About Leading by Listening.
- Management. The Four Conversations: Daily Communication That Gets Results by Jeffery Ford & Laurie Ford.
- Marketing and advertising. Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith.
- Sales. A Seat at the Table: How Top Salespeople Connect and Drive Decisions at the Executive Level by Marc Miller.
- Finance and economics. False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie.
- Biographies and narratives. The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy.
- Current interest. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin.
- Personal development. Power of 2: How to Make the Most of Your Partnerships at Work and in Life by Rodd Wagner & Gale Muller, Ph.D.
- Innovation and creativity. The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage by Roger L. Martin.
- Big ideas. What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis.
