The best business books of 2018 by Business Insider

Title: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.

Author(s): John Carreyrou

ISBN 13: 9781524731656

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Title: Imagine It Forward

In Imagine It Forward, Beth Comstock, the former Vice Chair of GE, describes her twenty-five year efforts to be an instigator of change at every level of business.

Author(s): Beth Comstock;Tahl Raz

ISBN 13: 9780451498298
Pages: 416

Title: Big Debt Crises

"On the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, one of the world's most successful investors, Ray Dalio, shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well.

Author(s): Ray Dalio

ISBN 13: 9781732689800
Pages: 456

Title: Mastering the Market Cycle

Marks reveals the hidden logic in carefully pinpointing market trends so that every investor can profit.

Author(s): Howard Marks

ISBN 13: 9781328479259
Pages: 336

Title: Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys Club of Silicon Valley

For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where men hold all the cards and make all the rules. Vastly outnumbered, women face toxic workplaces rife with discrimination and sexual harassment, where investors take meetings in hot tubs and network at sex parties.

Author(s): Emily Chang

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Title: Great at Work

His extensive research has yielded the "Seven Work Smarter Practices" that can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance.

Author(s): Morten Hansen

ISBN 13: 9781501179518
Pages: 320

Title: Leaders

The retired four-star general challenges the "Great Man" theory of leadership, sharing the less-recognized lessons of diverse leaders, from Robert E. Lee and Walt Disney to Margaret Thatcher and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Author(s): Stanley McChrystal;Jeff Eggers;Jay Mangone

ISBN 13: 9780525534372
Pages: 480

Title: The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win

With their first book, Extreme Ownership (published in October 2015), Jocko Willink and Leif Babin set a new standard for leadership, challenging readers to become better leaders, better followers, and better people, in both their professional and personal lives. Now, in THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP, Jocko and Leif dive even deeper into the unchartered and complex waters of a concept first introduced in Extreme Ownership: finding balance between the opposing forces that pull every leader in different directions. Here, Willink and Babin get granular into the nuances that every successful leader must navigate. Mastering the Dichotomy of Leadership requires understanding when to lead and when to follow; when to aggressively maneuver and when to pause and let things develop; when to detach and let the team run and when to dive into the details and micromanage. In addition, every leader must: · Take Extreme Ownership of everything that impacts their mission, yet utilize Decentralize Command by giving ownership to their team. · Care deeply about their people and their individual success and livelihoods, yet look out for the good of the overall team and above all accomplish the strategic mission. · Exhibit the most important quality in a leader―humility, but also be willing to speak up and push back against questionable decisions that could hurt the team and the mission. With examples from the authors’ combat and training experiences in the SEAL teams, and then a demonstration of how each lesson applies to the business world, Willink and Babin clearly explain THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP―skills that are mission-critical for any leader and any team to achieve their ultimate goal: VICTORY.

Author(s): Jocko Willink;Leif Babin

ISBN 13: 9781250195777

Title: The Job

"In a brilliant but sobering work of journalism, Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a hard look at the forces that are reshaping the nature of work in America, overturning the often espoused mythology that retraining workers in software, engineering, ...

Author(s): Ellen Ruppel Shell

ISBN 13: 9780451497253
Pages: 416

Title: Capitalism in America

From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the ...

Author(s): Alan Greenspan Adrian Wooldridge

ISBN 13: 9780735222441
Pages: 496

Title: Powerful

"From the Co-Creator of NETFLIX Culture Deck."

Author(s): Patty McCord

ISBN 13: 9781939714091
Pages: 228

Title: Saudi America

Bestselling author Bethany McLean reveals the true story of fracking's impact -- on Wall Street, the economy and geopolitics.

Author(s): Bethany McLean

ISBN 13: 9780999745441
Pages: 130

Title: It Doesnt Have to Be Crazy at Work

Destined to become the management guide for the next generation, It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a practical and inspiring distillation of their insights and experiences. It isn't a book telling you what to do.

Author(s): Jason Fried;David Heinemeier Hansson

ISBN 13: 9780008323448
Pages: ooks#volumes