The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times with data from Nielsen BookScan on July 18.
1. Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner. This account of the Wall Street implosion highlights individuals who played crucial roles of responsibility.
2. Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You’re Worth
by Mika Brzezinski. Exploring what women can do to get the compensation they have earned.
3. Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
by Bob Lutz. American manufactures focus should be on product quality not on quarterly projections.
4. Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
by by Marc Ostrofsky. An Internet entrepreneur’s strategies for earning money online.
5. We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World
by Simon Mainwaring. How brands and consumers use social media to build a better world.
6. TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
by Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard. Creating leadership connections in the smallest moments.
7. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
by Dan Heath and Chip Heath. The Heath brothers (coauthors of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
) address motivating employees, family members, and ourselves in their analysis of why we too often fear change.
8. Strengths-Based Leadership
by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie. Three keys to being a more effective leader.
9. The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream
by Suze Orman. The noted personal financial adviser offers a reconsideration of the American dream.
10. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Timothy Ferriss. Reconstructing your life so that it’s not all about work.
11. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
by Tony Hsieh. The visionary CEO of Zappos explains how an emphasis on corporate culture can lead to unprecedented success.
12. The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by Howard Marks. Successful investments are guided by thoughtful attention.
13. 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.
14. The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed
by Adam Bryant. How to build and maintain a successful organization from lessons learned from interviews of over seventy CEOs conducted by a New York Times business reporter.
15. Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell. Why some people succeed — it has to do with luck and opportunities as well as talent — from the author of Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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