BNET’s Best Business Books of 2008

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BNET’s Best Business Books of 2008
By Michael Fitzgerald
December 12th, 2008 @ 8:28 am

BNET’s Best Business Books of 2008By Michael Fitzgerald
December 12th, 2008 @ 8:28 am

These ten business books, from across the spectrum, received the most “yes” votes from BNET readers, with links to relevant BNET content on books or authors:
- One Hen, Katie Smith Milway
- Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely
- Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus
- Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam
- “Hot, Flat, and Crowded,” Thomas Friedman
- “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell
- When Markets Collide, Mohamed El-Erian
- Ahead of the Curve, Philip Delves Broughton
- A Sense of Urgency, John P. Kotter - Who’s Your City?, Richard Florida

The books with the highest percentage of yes votes creates a different top 10:
- Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus — 100 percent
- One Hen, Katie Smith Milway — 91 percent
- Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam — 86 percent
- Predictably Irrational, Dan Ariely — 79 percent
- A Sense of Urgency, John P. Kotter — 79 percent
- Crowdsourcing, Jeff Howe, 78 percent
- “Grown Up Digital,” Don Tapscott — 78 percent
- “The Snowball,” Alice Schroeder — 78 percent
- “The Game-Changer,” A.J. Lafley and Ram Charan — 77 percent
- “Outliers,” Malcolm Gladwell — 76 percent

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This posting was made my Jim Jacobs, President & CEO of Jacobs Executive Advisors. Jim also serves as Leader of Jacobs Advisors' Insurance Practice.