Best business biography books 2015 new york times

Whether you're looking for a last-minute gift or want to make sure you didn't miss a must-read, it's worth checking out the year's best business stories, career guides, and management studies. From a biography of Elon Musk to a look inside Google's management structure and an introduction to behavioral economics, we've picked our favorite business books of He says his mission in life is to prevent the human race from destroying itself.

Vance, a Bloomberg Business reporter , gained unprecedented access to Musk and those closest to him. He paints a picture of a man who has always felt a desire to change the world despite having difficulty finding his place in it, and an inspiring leader whose intensity can sometimes be difficult for the people he works with. Since joining Google as its senior vice president of People Operations in , Bock has seen the company transform into a powerful global business, growing from 6, employees to nearly 60, In that same time, Google has regularly topped lists of the best places to work.

Bock takes readers behind the scenes and explores the management strategies that have helped make Google exceptional , from differentiating between employee development and performance and "paying unfairly. Thaler is an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business best known as "the father of behavioral economics.

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In traditional economics, people are presumed to be purely rational actors; in reality, people's decisions are also influenced by biases and impulses that often have nothing to do with logic. In this book, cowritten with one of his former platoon commanders, Babin, the authors explain the lessons they learned in combat, which they've taught to corporate clients for the past four years in their leadership-consultancy firm, Echelon Front.

In , Slaughter became the first female director of policy planning for the State department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.