There are 40 books in the New York Times Hardcover Business Books Best Sellers 2011 list. Here are the 40 books ranked from 1 to 40.
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1. Switch
Weeks on the list: 22
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by: Chip Heath and Dan Heath Find in Library Check on Amazon |
How everyday people can effect transformative change at work and in life.
2. Delivering Happiness
Weeks on the list: 22
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by: Tony Hsieh Release date: Jun 07, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Lessons from business (pizza place, worm farm, Zappos) and life.
3. 4-Hour Workweek
Weeks on the list: 18
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by: Timothy Ferriss Release date: Jan 01, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Reconstructing your life so that it’s not all about work.
4. Total Money Makeover
Weeks on the list: 18
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by: Dave Ramsey Release date: Jan 01, 2007 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Debt reduction and fiscal fitness for families, by the radio talk-show host.
5. Strengths-Based Leadership
Weeks on the list: 18
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by: Tom Rath and Barry Conchie Release date: Jan 01, 2008 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Three keys to being a more effective leader.
6. Reckless Endangerment
Weeks on the list: 18
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by: Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner Release date: May 24, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
This account of the Wall Street implosion highlights individuals who played crucial roles of responsibility.
7. Money Class
Weeks on the list: 13
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by: Suze Orman Release date: Mar 08, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The noted personal financial adviser offers a reconsideration of the American dream.
8. Car Guys Vs. Bean Counters
Weeks on the list: 13
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by: Bob Lutz Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
American manufactures focus should be on product quality not on quarterly projections.
9. Get Rich Click!
Weeks on the list: 13
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by: Marc Ostrofsky Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An Internet entrepreneur’s strategies for earning money online.
10. Aftershock
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: David Wiedemer, Robert A Wiedemer and Cindy Spitzer Release date: Aug 02, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Protecting yourself and profiting in the next global financial crisis.
11. Start Something That Matters
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Blake Mycoskie Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The founder of Toms Shoes gives life and entrepreneurial tips.
12. Lean Startup
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Eric Ries Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
An approach to creating start-up companies inspired by lean manufacturing methods.
13. Entreleadership
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Dave Ramsey Release date: Sep 20, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Practical advice for growing your business.
14. Ultimate Question 2. 0
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Fred Reichheld with Rob Markey Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A blueprint for business growth based on a metric for customer loyalty and promotion.
15. Most Important Thing
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Howard Marks Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Successful investments are guided by thoughtful attention.
16. That Used To Be Us
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Thomas L Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum Release date: Sep 05, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How America fell behind in the world it invented, and how it can come back.
17. Knowing Your Value
Weeks on the list: 9
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by: Mika Brzezinski Release date: Jan 01, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Exploring what women can do to get the compensation they have earned.
18. Enchantment
Weeks on the list: 8
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by: Guy Kawasaki Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A former Apple employee explains how to gain professionally and personally by bringing about change in others.
19. Two-Second Advantage
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Kevin Maney and Vivek Ranadive Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How anticipating future patterns — the two-second advantage — might transform the marketplace.
20. Wicked Success Is Inside Every Woman
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Vickie L Milazzo Release date: Sep 21, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How women can tap 10 feminine strengths to achieve personal and professional success.
21. Outliers
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Malcolm Gladwell Find in Library Check on Amazon |
Unexpected factors that explain why some people succeed, such as upbringing, timing and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice.
22. Corner Office
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Adam Bryant Release date: Apr 12, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How to build and maintain a successful organization from lessons learned from interviews of over seventy CEOs conducted by a New York Times business reporter.
23. Grand Pursuit
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Sylvia Nasar Release date: May 10, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The making of modern economics, told through the lives of economists, by the author of “A Beautiful Mind.”
24. Touchpoints
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard Release date: May 17, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Creating leadership connections in the smallest moments.
25. We First
Weeks on the list: 5
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by: Simon Mainwaring Release date: Jun 07, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How brands and consumers use social media to build a better world.
26. Price Of Civilization
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Jeffrey D Sachs Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Reclaiming the values of fairness and foresight to help restore American prosperity.
27. Nothing To Lose, Everything To Gain
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Ryan Blair Release date: Jan 01, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Advice from a former gang member turned millionaire entrepreneur.
28. Tomatoland
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Barry Estabrook Release date: Jun 07, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The history and agribusiness of today’s mass-produced tomato industry.
29. Great Crash Ahead
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Harry S Dent, Jr with Rodney Johnson Release date: Sep 20, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Strategies for making smart and cautious investments for the next great crash ahead.
30. Great By Choice
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen Release date: Oct 11, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The characteristics of companies that succeed in hard times.
31. It’s Your Biz
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Susan Wilson Solovic and Ellen R Kadin Release date: Jan 01, 2012 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Practical advice for starting your own business.
32. How
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Dov Seidman Release date: Sep 21, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
It is no longer what you do to achieve success but how you do what you do.
33. Rework
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson Release date: Jan 01, 2010 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Counterintuitive rules for small-business success, like “Ignore the details early on” and “Good enough is fine.”
34. Boomerang
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Michael Lewis Release date: Oct 03, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A look at some of the places — Greece, Ireland, Iceland — hardest hit by the financial collapse of 2008, and at how it happened.
35. Onward
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Howard Schultz with Joanne Gordon Release date: Mar 29, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Schultz tells of his second stint as the C.E.O. of Starbucks and how he helped return the company to profitability.
36. Steve Jobs
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Walter Isaacson Release date: Oct 24, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
A biography of the recently deceased entrepreneur, based on 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years.
37. Thinking, Fast And Slow
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Daniel Kahneman Release date: Oct 25, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.
38. Thank You Economy
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Gary Vaynerchuk Release date: Mar 08, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
Tips on using social media tools to connect to customers.
39. End Game
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper Release date: Mar 08, 2011 Find in Library Check on Amazon Google Preview |
How the “debt supercycle” is adversely affecting developing countries around the world, including the United States.
40. Change Anything
Weeks on the list: 4
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by: Kerry Patterson and Others Find in Library Check on Amazon |
On the path to success, seeing the influences that shape decisions.
Last updated on November 27, 2021
