The following is a list of 50 interesting business books that were released in 2011.
As some of you know, I run a service called Any New Books?, which emails you a list of new books that are related to the categories of your choice each week. For the most part I pulled this list from the weekly staff picks there throughout this past year, just in time for your Christmas shopping. 😉
The books are ordered by their current sale rank on Amazon (from the most popular to the least popular at the moment, with hardcovers first). I hope this page will help you discover a few titles you may have not have noticed yet.
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Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson |
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The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses By Eric Ries |
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How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything By Dov Seidman |
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Screw Business As Usual By Richard Branson |
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Poke the Box By Seth Godin |
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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won By Tobias J. Moskowitz, L. Jon Wertheim |
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The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation By Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson |
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business By Bob Lutz |
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40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering By Alice Waters |
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The Compound Effect By Darren Hardy |
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist By Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson |
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Change Anything: The New Science of Personal Success By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler |
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Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries By Peter Sims |
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The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice By Todd Henry |
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The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators By Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen |
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The Thank You Economy By Gary Vaynerchuk |
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Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity By Josh Linkner |
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I Am John Galt: Today’s Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It By Donald Luskin, Andrew Greta |
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Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur By Ryan Blair |
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The Wizard of Lies By Diana B. Henriques |
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How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age By Dale Carnegie & Associates |
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Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul By Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon |
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Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet By Marc Ostrofsky |
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The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs By William H. Draper |
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The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future–Just Enough By Vivek Ranadive, Kevin Maney |
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Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People By Edward M. Hallowell |
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Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing By Roger Dooley |
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Laughing at Wall Street: How I Beat the Pros at Investing (by Reading Tabloids, Shopping at the Mall, and Connecting on Facebook) and How You Can, Too By Chris Camillo |
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Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street By Tomas Sedlacek |
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The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works for You By Adelaide Lancaster, Amy Abrams |
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The Third Screen: Marketing to Your Customers in a World Gone Mobile By Chuck Martin |
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The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct By Francis Cholle |
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Unthinking: The Surprising Forces Behind What We Buy By Harry Beckwith |
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The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own Business By Carol Roth |
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How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly–and the Stark Choices Ahead By Dambisa Moyo |
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Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race By Todd G. Buchholz |
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Digital Impact: The Two Secrets to Online Marketing Success By Vipin Mayar, Geoff Ramsey |
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It’s Your Biz: The Complete Guide to Becoming Your Own Boss By Susan Wilson Solovic, Ellen R. Kadin |
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Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos By Sarah Lacy |
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The Handbook of Market Intelligence: Understand, Compete and Grow in Global Markets By Hans Hedin, Irmeli Hirvensalo, Markko Vaarnas |
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Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Generally Amazing on Facebook By Dave Kerpen |
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How’s That Underling Thing Working Out for You? By Scott Adams |
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The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly By David Meerman Scott |
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101 Weird Ways to Make Money: Cricket Farming, Repossessing Cars, and Other Jobs With Big Upside and Not Much Competition By Steve Gillman |
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Engage, Revised and Updated: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web By Brian Solis |
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Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders By Jurgen Appelo |
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Making the World Work Better: The Ideas That Shaped a Century and a Company By Kevin Maney, Steve Hamm, Jeffrey O’Brien |
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Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love By James Reed, Paul G. Stoltz |
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Act Like a Sales Pro: How to Command the Business Stage and Dramatically Increase Your Sales with Proven Acting Techniques By Julie Hansen |
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The Best Business Books Ever: The Most Influential Management Books You’ll Never Have Time To Read By Basic Books |
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