Best Books about Business
Laksmi Mittal recommend at one of his speeches: “I have just finished reading a very interesting book called Built to Last, by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras. It is essentially about the world’s most successful and visionary companies. Those that have stood out consistently over their peers
over the course of time. It is interesting that one of the defining attributes of these most successful companies is their ability to succeed in the long-term. Very few of the world’s biggest and most admired companies have experienced a one-way journey to success. Many, if not all of them, have faced challenges and obstacles in their road to longevity. Similarly all industries and sectors face their own challenges as the economy and the world develops around them. Certainly in the past few decades steel has gone through its fair share of difficult times, but it is testament to the resilience of the sector that we have survived. If such thinking were to extend to industries as well as companies, then surely steel should continue to re-invent itself to play a role in the modern economy and in the modern world.”
This is shortlist of books which qualify for Business Book of the Year Award
Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future
Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran (Twelve/HGB USA)
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co
William D Cohan (Doubleday)
The Age Of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
Alan Greenspan (Allen Lane)
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Philippe Legrain (Little, Brown)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Allen Lane)
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott & Anthony D Williams (Atlantic) UK
