Wall Street Journal Selects Good Boss, Bad Boss as a Business Book "To Read at the Beach."

I was pleased to hear that Kyle Stock from the Wall Street Journal selected Good Boss, Bad Boss as one of "Six Business Books to Read at the Beach."  I was also a little surprised because it won't be available officially until September 7, although they way the book business works, copies will likely begin to be available by August 20th or so.   In any case, I appreciate the vote of confidence, and here is the rest of is list.  All sound interesting, but the one I just ordered was "The Upside of Irrationality" as Dan Ariely is brilliant and that sounds like a great topic:

Delivering Happiness, by Tony Hiseh

Multipliers, by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown

Employees First, Customers Second, by Vineet Nay

The Happiness Advantage, by Shawn Achor

The Upside of Irrationality, by Dan Ariely

 I would also add Chip and Dan Heath's Switch and the deeply insightful and most troubling The Invisible Gorilla.  And, if you never read it, the astounding Orbiting the Giant Hairball -- still the best creativity book ever written. 

What would you add?  What would you subtract?

Comments

[Ask a Manager / Alison Green]

Switch is fantastic! I just read it a couple of weeks ago and have been recommending it to everyone I know since then.

For those who don't know, it's about how you get people to make difficult changes -- at work, in life, in a culture. It's fascinating, engaging, sometimes counter-intuitive, and really applicable to pretty much any area of life.

[90steve.wordpress.com]

Looks like a pretty good list, to me. I read "Orbiting the Giant Hairball" last year. A brilliant book. I would add "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell,the only one of his I've yet to read.
I decided to tackle "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand this summer, however, and so the others will have to wait.