Business Book Report
One of the things I miss most about business travel is checking out the business and personal development books on display at WHSmith, Hudson News, and other airport bookstores and newsstands. Occasionally a good representation of the current crop of business- and technology-related titles, such books are also sometimes, as journalist Mark Wilson might say, "the kind of management books people buy at the airport."
Last night, I flipped through the current issues of a handful of business magazines, to see what books are currently under discussion in the periodical press—and which books might be on display at the LAX Hudson News. Here's a recommended reading list, according to current business mags:
Entrepreneur, April-May 2020
The Five Minute Journal: A Happier You in 5 Minutes a Day
Glenn Llopis with Jim Eber, The Innovation Mentality: Six Strategies to Disrupt the Status Quo and Reinvent the Way We Work
Jaime Schmidt, Supermaker: Crafting Business on Your Own Terms
Craig Simpson with Brian Kurtz, The Advertising Solution: Influence Prospects, Multiply Sales, and Promote Your Brand
Christopher Matthew Spencer, Start Your Own eBay Business
Fast Company, March/April 2020
Safi Bahcall, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
David Brooks, The Road to Character
Daniel R. Day, Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
Jeremy Gutsche, Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere (fiction)
Victor Sebestyen, Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Shaka Senghor, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Forbes, June/July 2020
Sean Masaki Flynn, Ph.D., The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare—at a Quarter of the Price
Kathy Reichs, A Conspiracy of Bones (fiction)
Michel Tournier, The Erl-King (fiction)
Fortune, June/July 2020
Brian Dumaine, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It
Frederick F. Reichheld, The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits, and Lasting Value
Wired, June 2020
Andy Greenberg, Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
Mara Hvistendahl, The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
George Orwell, 1984 (fiction)
What are you reading? What business and personal development books would you recommend?