2022夏日书单:11本书让你的头脑保持活跃

盛夏已至,大家可能会为自己安排一些休闲时间。无论你是在飞机上还是坐在泳池边,我们从斯坦福商学院的教授们那里收集了11本可以让你的大脑保持活跃的书籍。放轻松,给自己倒上一杯冷饮,来尽情享受吧。

 

Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers
By Chip Heath and Karla Starr

Are ticket scalpers good for teams? Should parents push their kids to excel at sports? This book is an entertaining guide to how economics might make you a better athlete and a more informed fan.

 

An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports
By Paul Oyer

Are ticket scalpers good for teams? Should parents push their kids to excel at sports? This book is an entertaining guide to how economics might make you a better athlete and a more informed fan.

 

7 Rules of Power: Surprising — But True — Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career
By Jeffrey Pfeffer

Learn how power skills and understanding can become the keys to increasing salaries, job satisfaction, career advancement, organizational change, and, happiness.

 

The Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game
By Charles A. O’Reilly, Andrew Binns, Michael Tushman

Lessons from experts in corporate innovation. This is is a guidebook to the practices that enable managers to go from idea into action.

 

Leading with Values: Strategies for Making Ethical Decisions in Business and Life
By Neil Malhotra, Ken Shotts

Being a good leader requires both an understanding of the realities of human decision-making as well as an analysis of what is right and wrong. This book teaches how to be strategic as you lead with your values.

 

Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company
By Jeff Immelt

A memoir of successful leadership in times of crisis. Immelt, former CEO of General Electric shares how he’s pushed through even the most withering criticism.

 

The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical
By Robert E. Siegel

This guide shows how to create a partnership between digital innovation and traditional business operations within an organization.

 

Acting with Power: Why We Are More Powerful Than We Believe
By Deborah Gruenfeld

It’s not just how much power we have but how we use it that determines how powerful we actually are. Learn how to adopt an actor’s mindset to become more comfortable with power.

 

Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues
By David Bradford, Carole Robin

A guide to building more fulfilling relationships with colleagues, friends, and family, based on the popular MBA course, Interpersonal Dynamics.

 

Making Great Strategy: Arguing for Organizational Advantage
By Jesper B. Sørensen, Glenn R. Carroll

Discover a straightforward framework for managing strategy: visualization, logic, and constructive argumentation.

 

Humor, Seriously: Why Humor is a Secret Weapon in Business and in Life
By Jennifer Aaker, Naomi Bagdonas

Discover how humor works — and how it not only changes the way you do business, but how you live life. Includes advice from world-class comedians, findings from behavioral scientists, and stories from leaders around the world.