With the holiday season upon us, the lists of top business books 2015 are out — and technology is in.
The Financial Times has created quite an industry out of their top business book awards. It’s winner: “A disturbing and often bleak analysis of the automated future of work has been named 2015’s business book of the year. Martin Ford, author of The Rise of the Robots , received the £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.”
The FT also published its longlist, stating that the “theme of technology edges ahead of workplace and capitalism to dominate this year’s must-read titles.” The post continues: “The 15 titles include Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk, a biography of the charismatic entrepreneur behind the Tesla electric car, Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper, on the development of the virtual currency bitcoin, and The Rise of the Robots, by Martin Ford, about jobs and automation.”
Finally, the FT also provides a terrific site that offers its top business books since 2005. A lot of time can be spent reviewing these.
Meanwhile, the World Economic Forum publishes what it calls the “20 books by the most influential thinkers in business.” These include business classics like “‘Drive’ by Dan Pink,” and “‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins.” But it also has newcomers.
The Wall Street Journal today announces its top books of the year. The WSJ also “reviewed best-of lists from twelve sources to discover the most-cited books of 2015.”
Similar to the book reviews, The Enterprisers Project identified what it calls the “must-read Harvard Business Review articles available in December.” Among them: The self-tuning enterprise by Martin Reeves, Ming Zeng and Amin Venjara of the Boston Consulting Group. This team published the well-received “Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: How to Choose and Execute the Right Approach.”
Another publication, Strategy + Business, offers its top reads, which includes books in marketing, economics, leadership and more. Its section on Disruption is a must-read, focusing on Ford’s The Rise of the Robots and Walter Isaacson’s “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,” and Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey’s “The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order.”