10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019 by Inc.

Title: The Prosperity Paradox

The ideas in this book will help companies desperate for real, long-term growth see actual, sustainable progress where they’ve failed before.

Author(s): Clayton M. Christensen Efosa Ojomo Karen Dillon

ISBN 13: 9780062851826
Pages: 352

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Title: Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

"Artificial intelligence is today's story--the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time: Good AI versus evil AI." --John Brockman

Author(s): John Brockman

ISBN 13: 9780525557999

Title: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

In this provocative book, author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic connects the dots and asks a powerful question: what if the reason for the lack of women at the top--and the presence of so many incompetent leaders who also happen to be men--is not ...

Author(s): Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

ISBN 13: 9781633696327
Pages: 176

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Title: Zucked

Until he simply couldn't. ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing.

Author(s): Roger McNamee

ISBN 13: 9780525561354
Pages: 352

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Title: Loonshots

In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.

Author(s): Safi Bahcall

ISBN 13: 9781250185969
Pages: 368

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Title: Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. They are the most quietly influential people on the planet, and Coders shines a light on their culture.

Author(s): Clive Thompson

ISBN 13: 9780735220560

Title: Eye Contact

With his flair for telling intriguing stories, Grazer’s highly readable book will give you a powerful advantage across every aspect of your life. Read this book now, and learn how a happier and more meaningful life is just a blink away.

Author(s): Brian Grazer

ISBN 13: 9781501147722
Pages: 176

Title: Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areas--and destroying middle class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we must look to a brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success story and embark on a plan that will create the industries of the future--and the jobs that go with them.

Author(s): Jonathan Gruber;Simon Johnson

ISBN 13: 9781541762480

Title: Nine Lies about Work

These are freethinking leaders who recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness, who know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom, and that evidence is more powerful than dogma.

Author(s): Marcus Buckingham;Ashley Goodall

ISBN 13: 9781633696303
Pages: 256

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Title: The Infinite Game

Explains how the unending, constantly evolving challenges of business can be better served through an "infinite mindset," sharing inspiring examples of how a shift in perspective can promote stronger, more enduring organizations.

Author(s): Simon Sinek

ISBN 13: 9780735213500
Pages: 320