The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on September 22.
1.The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by by Timothy Ferriss. Because life isn’t all about work.
2. The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
by Dave Ramsey. Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host.
3. Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. How to identify and develop your talents and those of your employees.
4. Debt Cures \””They\”” Don’t Want You to Know About
by Kevin Trudeau. How the credit industry is rigged against you, and how to fight back by changing your financial habits.
5. Freakonomics Rev Ed
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. A scholar uses economics to explore the incentives that drive such disparate groups, including crack gangs, sumo wrestlers, school teachers, campaign fund-raisers and real estate agents.
6. When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
by Mohamed El-Erian. Investing advice for a time of global economic change.
7. Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
by Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin and Robert B. Cialdini. The one word that can get people to say “yes” and 49 other ways to improve your powers of persuasion.
8. Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier
by Gary Harpst. Strategies for small and midsize businesses.
9. Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths That Are Destroying Your Prosperity
by Garrett B. Gunderson with Stephen Palmer. Debunking myths about money and saving for retirement.
10. Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny
by Suze Orman. How women can achieve financial security.
11. Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. A fable about how to bring about change in a group, through the eyes of a penguin bearing bad news.
12. Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
by Philip Delves Broughton. An account of the author’s two years at HarÂvard Business School.
13. The Ten Commandments for Business Failure
by Donald R. Keough. A former president of the Coca-Cola Company uses reverse psychology to dispense busiÂness advice.
14. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A financial trader with an expertise in probability theory and statistics, debunks much about economic forecasting, and uses examples ranging from how a book becomes a best-seller to how an entrepreneur becomes a mogul.
15. The Little Book that Saves Your Assets: What the Rich Do to Stay Wealthy in Up and Down Markets (Little Books. Big Profits)
by David M. Darst. Learn what the rich have always known “correct asset allocation.”
