Best Business Books of 2024
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2024 saw AI develop in leaps and bounds, but not without its share of controversy and legal turmoil. IT technicians had a very bad weekend when a Crowdstrike update crashed millions of Windows systems in July. Sanctions may be in Google's future after a US judge ruled they have an illegal monopoly on search. Dockworkers in America went on strike for the first time since 1977. Supply chain issues and inflation have been blamed for a rising cost of groceries and house supplies (though retailers have continued to record record profits, drawing questions of price gouging). In December, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated, sparking conversations about the healthcare industry in the U.S. And that's just a few of the major news stories that dominated the business world since January.
As we reflect back on this year in business, check out these popular 2024 publications on leadership, social responsibility, algorithms, and why it all matters in the coming year and beyond.
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Women Money Power: the rise and fall of economic equality by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024The compelling story of women's fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality, and the work that remains to be done. Cox delves deep into the challenges women face today and the culture and systems that hold them back. This is a fascinating narrative account of progress, women's lives, and the work still to be done.
The Friction Project: how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder by Location: Pardee Stacks HD30.23 .S98 2024Publication Date: 2024The definitive guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Find out why Adam Grant says "If every leader took the ideas in this book seriously, the world would be a less miserable, more productive place."
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Location: Pardee Library Book Display HN730.T65 M6713 2024Publication Date: 2024In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
Best Business Books of 2024
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI.
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024An original, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism."
Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie exposes the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Location: Online and Howard Thurman Center (HC79.E5 R58 2024)Publication Date: 2024In this bold, radically hopeful book, data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that if we zoom out, the data shows we've made so much progress on the problems of climate change that we could be on track to achieve true sustainability for the first time in human history.
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Location: Online and Howard Thurman Center (HM621 .C488 2024)Publication Date: 2024From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry, a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall.
Good Judgment: Making Better Business Decisions with the Science of Human Personality by Location: Pardee Library Book Display HF5548.8 .D38 2024Publication Date: 2024An experienced organizational psychologist teaches you how to select the right employees and business partners, assess investment opportunities more shrewdly, resolve conflicts better and faster, and optimize your performance on the job using the science of personality.
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024This unprecedented look inside the global battle to power our lives is "required reading for anyone interested in the 360-degree impacts of the energy transition" (Daniel Poneman, former US Deputy Secretary of Energy) from acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder.
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work--and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.
Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U. S. A. (and How It Got That Way) by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024A moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why our nation depends on it, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically.
The Trading Game: A Confession by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2024An outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world--the trading floor--from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
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