These are McKinsey's top 9 recommendations for business books this year
McKinsey & Company's 2024 book recommendations list spans genres like personal development, work, and tech. Here are the 9 business books on the list.
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- McKinsey & Company published its annual book recommendations list this week.
- It spans more than 90 titles across genres like personal development, workplace culture, and tech.
- Here's a look at the 9 business and economics books on the management consulting firm's list.
If you're fleshing out your summer reading list now, save some room for a few more titles.
Management consulting firm McKinsey & Company this week published its annual list of book recommendations.
The list includes more than 90 books across 10 genres: biography and memoir; business and economics; fiction; health; history; personal development; politics; sustainability; technology; and workplace culture.
The recommendations came from global business figures, including CEOs, founders, editors-in-chief, and some McKinsey leaders.
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Here are the 9 books McKinsey recommended in the business and economics genre:
- "Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo" by Lesley-Ann Noel
- "The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport" by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg
- "How Legendary Leaders Speak: 451 Proven Communication Strategies of the World's Top Leaders" by Peter D. Andrei
- "Inner Drive: From Underdog to Global Company" by Arsen Tomsky
- "The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out" by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, and Ramesh Srinivasan
- "Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict" by William Ury
- "Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell" by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
- "What I Learned About Investing from Darwin" by Pulak Prasad
- "What Went Wrong with Capitalism" by Ruchir Sharma
You can find the full list of recommendations, including books in every other genre, here.