The Smorgasbord 250 [‘beta’]

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou [FT/McKinsey Winner, New York Times Bestseller, amazing].
The World for Sale: Money, Power and Traders Who Barter The Earth’s Resources - Javier Blas & Jack Farchy [new, Editor’s best of 2021]
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcom Gladwell
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone [FT/McKinsey Winner]
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t - Jim Collins [published in 2001, but still a classic, Editor]
The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market - Philip Augar [Editor’s recommendation]
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built - Duncan Clark
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcom Gladwell
Humanocracy: Creating Organisations as Amazing as the people Inside Them - Gary Hamel & Michele Zanini
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek [Linked-in Influencer]
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Could Drive Us Apart - Rachel Botsman
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World - Liaquat Ahamed [FT/McKinsey Winner]
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More - Chris Anderson
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling
Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune - Richard Branson [seems old fashioned, but sold crate loads]
Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism - Ian Bremmer [Linked-in Influencer, apparently]
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. - William D Cohan [FT/McKinsey Winner]
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power - Steve Coll
Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance - Stephen J Dubner & Steven D Levitt
ALIEN Thinking: How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life - Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux & Michael Wade [new]
When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change - Mohamed El-Erian [FT/McKinsey Winner]
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time - Keith Ferrazzi & Tahl Raz
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment - Martin Ford
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Friedman [FT/McKinsey Winner]
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds - Carmine Gallo
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google - Scott Galloway
Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcom Gladwell
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men - Caroline Criado-Perez [FT/McKinsey Winner, Sunday Times listed]
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move The World - Adam Grant
Act Like a Leader Think Like A Leader - Herminia Ibarra
China Shakes The World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future and the Challenge for America - James Kynge [FT/McKinsey Winner]
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite - Sebastian Mallaby [FT/McKinsey Winner]
The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World - Nilofer Merchant [new]
Janesville: An American Story - Amy Goldstein [FT/McKinsey Winner, NYT listed, WSJ Best Book of 2017, Economist Best Book of 2017 ]
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers - Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson [over 5 million sales]
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty [FT/McKinsey Winner]
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Daniel H. Pink
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy - Raghuram Rajan [FT/McKinsey Winner]
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves - Andrew Ross Sorkin
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Abhijit V.Banerjee & Esther Duflo
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense - Rory Sutherland [newish]
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes But Some Do - Matthew Syed
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Richard H Thaler
Funky Business - Jonas Ridderstrale [published in 2000, but a classic]
Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World's Smartest Minds - David Rowan (founding Editor of WIRED)
First, Break All the Rules: What the world's Greatest Managers Do Differently - Marcus Buckingham
What They Teach You At Harvard Business School - Philip Delves-Broughton
Switch: How to change things when change is hard - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
The Pheonix and the Unicorn - Peter Hinssen
Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t - Simon Sinek
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B Cialdini
The News: A User's Manual - Alain de Botton [editor’s choice from many by AdB]
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses - Eric Ries
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants - Malcolm Gladwell
This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See - Seth Godin
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know [new] - Adam Grant
The 100 Year Life - Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott
Good Value: Reflections on Money, Morality and an Uncertain World- StephenGreen
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds - Michael Lewis
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity - Kim Malone Scott
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - Mark Manson [not sure, but wildly popular]
Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets - Costas Markides & Paul Geroski
Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy - Iain Martin
The Chimp Paradox: Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness - Steve Peters [not sure, but sold hugely, Ed]
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb [huh?, See Thinking Fast & Slow, Ed]
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich - Timothy Ferriss [bestselling blockbuster!]
The Day After Tomorrow - Peter Hinssen
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention - Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer [new]
Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance - Julia Angwin
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture - John Battellenam
Contagious: Why Things Catch On - Jonah Berger
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World - William J. Bernstein
Fast Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future - Julian Birkinshaw & Jonas Ridderstrale
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company - Steve Blank
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done - Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
Cold Steel: The Multi-billion-dollar Battle for a Global Industry - Tim Bouquet & Byron Ousey
Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business - Tiffani Bova
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to Be Great Instead of Big - Bo Burlingahm
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future - Iain Carson & Vijay Vaitheeswara
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism - Anne Case & Angus Deaton [heavy, Ed]
Creativity, Inc. Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart - Brent Schelender & Rick Tetzeli [Editors' choice]
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust - John M Coates
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - Daniel Coyle
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges - Amy Cuddy
Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of technology and Turmoil - Cukier, Schonberger and Vericourt [new, from authors of Big Data]
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and ther INVENTION of a Global EMPIRE - Brad Stone [follow-up to The Everything Store]
This is How they Tell me the World Ends - Nicole Perlroth [new, shortlisted for FT/MckInsey 2021]
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Startup Delusion - Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork - Reeves Wiedeman [new]
The New Silk Road - Peter Frankopan
Loonshots: How to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases and transform industries - Safi Bachall [new]

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The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans Will Transform the World - Richard D’Aveni
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life - Shawn Achor
Banking on It: How I Disrupted an Industry - Anne Boden
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Travis Bradberry
working backwards: Inside Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar & Will Carr
Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths - Marcus Buckingham
Alive At Work: The Neuroscience of helping your people love what they do - Daniel Cable
Principles: Life and Work - Ray Dalio
Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life - Susan David
Hack Attack: How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch - Nick Davies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs - John Doerr
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - Peter Drucker
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth - Amy Edmondson
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History - David Enrich
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent - Sydney Finkelstein
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works—and How It's Transforming the American Economy - Charles Fishman
Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life - Stew Friedman
No Filter: How Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity and Culture [FT/McKinsey winner]
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
Rebel Talent: Why it Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life - Francesca Gino
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier - Edward Glaeser
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld - Misha Glenny
This Is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn to See - Seth Godin
Clever - Gareth Jones and Rob Goffee
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful- Marshall Goldsmith
Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success - Adam Grant [new]
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals - Heidi Grant
The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here - Lynda Gratton
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World - Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge
Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life - Hal Gregersen & Ed Catmul
Getting China and India Right - Anil Gupta & Haiyan Wang
What Matters Now - Gary Hamel
Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More - Morten Hansen
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure - Tim Harford
Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril - Margaret Heffernan
New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World and How to Make It Work for You - Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms
Rework: David Heinemeier & Jason Fried
Being the Boss, The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader - Linda A Hil & Kent Linebac
The Conversation: How Talking Honestly About Racism Can Transform Individuals and Organisations [new]
The Alchemists: Inside the Secret World of Central Bankers - Neil Irwin
The Art of Choosing - Sheena Iyengar
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future - Jill Lepore
Disrupt Yourself: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve - Whitney Johnson
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan & Kim Renée Mauborgne
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World - David Kirkpatrick
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness - Frederic Laloux
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them - Philippe Legrain
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable - Patrick Lencioni
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America - Christopher Leonard
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy - Lawrence Lessig
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Marc Levinson
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload - Daniel J. Levitin
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
The Ministry of Common Sense: How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses, and Corporate Bullshit - Martin Lindstrom
Buyology: How Everything We Believe About Why We Buy is Wrong - Martin Lindstrom
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought - Andrew W Lo
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan & Sebastian Mallaby
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity - Kim Malone Scott
Organising for the New Normal: Prepare Your Company for the Journey of Continuous Disruption - Costas Markides [new]
The Intelligence Revolution: Transforming Your Business with AI - Bernard Marr
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic EfficiencyRoger Martin
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works - Roger Martin & A G Lafley
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier [see also new book Framers]
The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy - Mariana Mazzucato
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World - Stanley McChrystal
Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen - Rita McGrath
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown
Ignore Everybody - Hugh McLeod [Editor choice]
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry - Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff
The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone - Brian Merchant
The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures - Erin Meyer
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again - Atif Mian & Amir Sufi
So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking - Richard E.Nisbett
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change - Ellen Pao
The Match King - Frank Partnoy
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High - Kerry Patterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson [new]
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Steven Pinker
Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation - Gary P Pisano
Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin - Nathaniel Popper
Key Person of Influence - Daniel Priestley [editors pick]
The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund - Anita Raghavan
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World - Raghuram Rajan
How Innovation Works - Matt Ridley
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade - Pietra Rivoli
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Richard Rumelt
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets - Michael J Sandel
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century - Walter Scheidel
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less - Barry Schwartz
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization - Peter M Senge
Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence - William Silber
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail, But Some Don't - Nate Silver
Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries - Peter Sims
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family - Anne-Marie Slaughter
How Music Got Free: What Happens When an Entire Generation Commits the Same Crime? - Stephen Witt
DisneyWar - James B Stewart
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Daniel Susskind
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - Don Tapscott & Anthony D Williams
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Max Tegmark
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction) - Philip E.Tetlock
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics - RichardThaler
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers - Tim Harford
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You: Marshall Van Alstyne & Geoff Parker
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance [Editor choice]
Breaking Bad Habits - Freek Vermeulen
Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss & Tahl Raz
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming - David Wallace-Wells
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter - Michael Watkins
In Fed We Trust - David Wessel
Mutlipliers: How the best leaders make everyone smarter - Liz Wiseman
The Aristoracy of Talent - Adrian Wooldridge [new]
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World - DanielYergin
Smart Business: What Alibaba's Success Reveals about the Future of Strategy - Ming Zeng
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power - Zuboff
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution - Gregory Zuckerman