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Books like The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

12 books with a reading profile close to The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.

1

Abundance

by Ezra Klein

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

Ezra Klein examines the structural hurdles preventing the United States from building the infrastructure, housing, and clean energy technology required for a functional future.
2

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

by Chris Anderson

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

Chris Anderson explains the shift from a hit-driven culture to a niche-driven economy enabled by digital distribution.
3

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the day-by-day mechanics of the 2008 financial collapse, focusing on the frantic negotiations between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and the chief e…
4

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

by Bryan Burrough

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar chronicle the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, the largest corporate takeover of its era.
5

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

by Bethany McLean

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy

Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind document the organizational culture and accounting strategies that led to the collapse of the Enron Corporation.
6

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, business strategy

Michael Lewis tracks the mechanics of the 2008 global financial collapse by following a small group of eccentric investors who anticipated the subprime mortgage crisis.
7

Microsoft Secrets

by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

Michael A.
8

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

by Rutger Bregman

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics

Rutger Bregman argues that modern society has lost its capacity for visionary thinking and proposes three specific policies to reclaim progress.
9

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

Clayton Christensen explains why profitable, well-managed corporations lose their market dominance when faced with specific types of technological shifts.
10

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics

Cathy O’Neil identifies a specific breed of algorithmic modeling she labels Weapons of Math Destruction.
11

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

Also outward-looking · analytical, economics

Naomi Klein argues that the current global economic model and the survival of the planetary ecosystem are fundamentally at odds.
12

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy

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