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The site publishes inc.com business specializing in the list of best selling business books and recommended for every entrepreneur, leader, professional, general manager or CEO should read.

1. The advantage of happiness.
Shawn Achor, Crown Business Achor.
Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness is the fuel of success and not vice versa. Achor identifies seven practical principles that show how to take advantage of happiness to improve performance and maximize potential.

2. 2.0 Strengths
Tom Rath, Gallup Press.
The author starts from the premise that most people spend their careers trying to improve their weaknesses instead of working on your strengths.
This book includes a unique access code to an assessment 34 line identifying talent. The test results highlight the five most important talents with practical actions to help you develop them.
In short, a guide to optimize their talents to help you find the perfect balance for you and the people in your organization.

3. Empowerment
Josh Bernoff, Ted Schadler, Harvard Business School Press.
Is your company authorized to success? His aides are armed with cheap, accessible technology, connect with customers and are creating innovative solutions. Who are these creative problem solvers? How can it be? How can I drive? The authors call them heroes of the organization: highly skilled workers and technological resources. Read the rest of this entry »

Even at the height of the Web, the texts are effective change management practices and implement innovations. But it is difficult to find a compass in the new festival. The vision and advice for authors, publishers, booksellers, and entrepreneurs.

Hidden behind wealthy parents, and others brought cheese consumption volumes quickly and neglect guaranteed business books are valuable for business people. The question is finding the above, without drowning in the sea of ​​fads and gurus.

Among the many inhabitants of the “business book world,” the editor is a vital player (though invisible, to paraphrase The Little Prince). Because its function of bringing supply and demand, interpret trends and build a consistent catalog, you can mark-and form-to entire generations of authors, booksellers and readers.

Jorge Scarfi has embodied this figure by more than 30 years, ever since its inception very close to the business genre. After a pause in the 90-years when he chose to publish fiction authors, decided to return to the roots after the crisis of 2001, with the editorial topics.

The publisher is not sure, but speaking of trends rather than titles. Scarfi interpreted, since the collapse of Wall Street, in 2008, is a paradigm shift and, therefore, required reading: “What was known as ‘good management’, which favors only the cost / benefit analysis and forget the human and environmental consequences, was in crisis after the last crack. ” Explain that today, more than the tools, prioritize ends: “The economy must serve people, not the reverse, as Amartya Sen puts it.” The editor refers to the Indian Nobel Laureate in Economics 1998, co-authored with Argentine Bernardo Kliksberg first book-people. Read the rest of this entry »

The economic and business issues have ceased to be of interest to a select group to become everyday affair, an item linked to everyday professionals, housewives, students and curious people who need to learn about factors that influence their lives, especially when you start a project in mind or undertaking.

To get a clearer idea of what happens in the business world, some scholars make their contributions to publications that are enjoyable and interesting for those with advanced knowledge, as for the general public.

The following is a selection of 10 best books of business, a good topic to start in 2011:

1. The art of choosing
This title refers readers to the practice of taking decisions, focused as an art. The author raises the questions of how choices are made, and how people feel with the election, and raises some amazing views over the decision. Read the rest of this entry »

The day after it was announced the winner of the Man Booker Prize, the prize for best book of fiction written in English, Julian Barnes won this year with his book The Sense of an Ending, we must not forget that they announced the finalists for the best business books of 2011, the Financial Times, international financial and economic newspaper, and Goldman Sachs, the investment bank.
We are in the seventh year of the award and the finalists are:

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System Professor of Economics and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen, the title makes clear the subject matter.

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters of strategy professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management at Univera of California, Los Angeles, Richard Rumelt, talking about the good and bad business strategy.

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty professors of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, talking about the development of poorer countries.

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World of the president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Daniel Yergin, talking about the future of energy linked to security in the world.
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, Happier and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Edward Glaeser, talking about the development of the modern city and its impact.

Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore at Our Peril Obvious the businesswoman of the Web, Margaret Heffernan, speaking of psychology and how it impacts our decisions.
The selection committee this year consists of the following group of people:
Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chairman of the Committee.
Vindi Banga, Partner of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. stock market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management at London Business School.
Mario Monti, president of Bocconi University in Milan, and President European Trilateral Commission.
Jorma Ollila, Nokia Chairman and the oil company Shell, Shriti Vadera, director of Shriti Vadera Ltd, an independent director of mining company BHP Billiton and pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca.

This group of eminent persons chosen to mention the short list and are responsible for selecting the winner. The ceremony and dinner will be in London on November 3, 2011, when he announced the winner.