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The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success by Rich Karlgaard, Jossey-Bass, $28. 00, Hardcover, April 2014, ISBN 9781118829424
When you see a book has a foreword written by Tom Peters, and an afterword penned by Clayton Christensen, you pay attention. When the author of that same book is the publisher of Forbes, you get your wallet out.
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz, HarperBusiness, 304 pages, $29. 99, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780062273208
Imagine you were going to bake something. You had never baked it before but from what you heard of the dish, it sounded delicious.
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Money: The Unauthorized Biography by Felix Martin, Alfred A. Knopf, 320 pages, $27. 95, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780307962430
Money, as we are told in classical economics, evolved from a system of barter known in the simpler societies of our ancestors.
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Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences by Jane Hyun and Audrey S. Lee, HarperBusiness, 336 pages, $27. 99, Hardcover, March 2014, ISBN 9780062248527
The differences in our office are likely not as obvious as those in a more diverse company, but if you look closely the differences are there.
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Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Path for Entrepreneurs, and Create New Jobs in America by Andrew Yang, HarperBusiness, 272 pages, $26. 99, Hardcover, February 2014, ISBN 9780062292049
Andrew Yang has a very simple, yet profound idea for the American economy: smart people should build things. By “smart people,” Yang is referring to the academically gifted—the top students from the top universities in America.
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