The Best Business Books Ever - Free Book Summaries
The American Idol of Business Books?
Can we invite to a reality show some of the best business books, management guides, leadership tutorials and marketing gurus biographies, eliminate one every week and come up with a winner? Perhaps. But will it have any real meaning? Probably not.
Ranking books of any kind is problematic, because each book stands on its own with different targets. We could grade a book and say if its good or not for its purposes, but a general list of Top Business Books seems a little shallow.
And yet, when I a summarize business book, I offer you the ability to get a quick understanding of the book and to choose if you want to dive into it. But when there are too many summaries... you need some help again. That's where the lists kick in.
The following executive summaries of leading thinkers in the fields of business, leadership, management and marketing, are not really of the best business books ever. But they're a good place to start...
The Best Business Books Ever
Megatrends by John Naisbitt Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives was published in 1982, way before the technology revolution and the Internet era. Naisbitt anticipated several key social and business factors such as globalization, empowerment and the rise of information technology. It is an excellent read as background to its contemporary companion, Microtrends by Mark Penn.