Melhores livros de 2008 pela S+B

Agora é a vez de publicarmos a lista dos melhores livros de 2008 pela Strategy+Business, revista publicada pela consultorua Booz & Company. Vários deles me parecem bastante interessante.

Considero a seleção da S+B normalmente mais rica e fora de modismos que a da Business Week.

Strategy

William P. Barnett
The Red Queen among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
(Princeton University Press, 2008)

Sea-Jin Chang
Sony vs. Samsung: The Inside Story of the Electronics Giants’ Battle for Global Supremacy
(Wiley, 2008)

Pankaj Ghemawat
Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
(Harvard Business School Press, 2007)

Life Stories

Steve Weinberg
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
(W.W. Norton, 2008)

Willie Brown
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Jacob Weisberg
The Bush Tragedy
(Random House, 2008)

Ted Sorensen
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
(HarperCollins, 2008)

Marketing

Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
(Harvard Business Press, 2008)

Christopher Vollmer, with Geoffrey Precourt
Always On: Advertising, Marketing, and Media in an Era of Consumer Control
(McGraw-Hill, 2008)

Lucas Conley
Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion
(PublicAffairs, 2008)

Rhetoric

Robert Schlesinger
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters
(Simon & Schuster, 2008)

Bill Lane
Jacked Up: The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the World’s Greatest Company

Innovation

Gina C. O’Connor, Richard Leifer, Albert S. Paulson, and Lois S. Peters
Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation
(Jossey-Bass, 2008)

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, expanded ed.
(Portfolio, 2008)

James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer
Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
(Princeton University Press, 2008)

John Kao
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do to Get It Back
(Free Press, 2007)

Globalization

Kishore Mahbubani
The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
(PublicAffairs, 2008)

Jimmy Hexter and Jonathan Woetzel
Operation China: From Strategy to Execution
(Harvard Business School Press, 2007)

Alexandra Harney
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (Penguin Press, 2008)

William J. Bernstein
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
(Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008)

Human Capital

Peter Cappelli
Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty
(Harvard Business Press, 2008)

Edward E. Lawler III
Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage
(Jossey-Bass, 2008)

Clayton M. Christensen
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
(McGraw-Hill, 2008)

Alex Frankel
Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-line Employee
(HarperCollins, 2007)

Capitalism and Community

John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan
The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
(Harvard Business Press, 2008)

Stephen A. Marglin
The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
(Harvard University Press, 2008)

Muhammad Yunus
Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
(PublicAffairs, 2007)

Peter Block
Community: The Structure of Belonging
(Berrett–Koehler, 2008)

Management

Greg Niemann
Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS
(Wiley, 2007)

Steve Miller
The Turnaround Kid: What I Learned Rescuing America’s Most Troubled Companies
(Collins, 2008)

James M. Kilts, with John F. Manfredi and Robert L. Lorber
Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference — The Revolutionary Old-school Approach
(Crown Business, 2007)

Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson
Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them
(Kogan Page, 2008)

Miscellany

Charles Handy
Myself and Other More Important Matters
(AMACOM, 2008)

Richard Sennett
The Craftsman
(Yale University Press, 2008)

Rakesh Khurana
From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession
(Princeton University Press, 2007)

Robert Coles and Albert LaFarge, eds.,
Minding the Store: Great Writing about Business from Tolstoy to Now
(The New Press, 2008)