Picking the top ten of 100+ books I read in 2023 was difficult. However, here is what that ranking looks like:
- Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story – From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Stephanie Shirley
- Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
- Le Deal: How a Young American, in Business, in Love, and in Over His Head, Kick-Started a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry in Europe by Byrne Murphy
- The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results by Stephen Bungay
- How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Flyvbjerg and Gardner
- The Symphony of Profound Knowledge: W. Edwards Deming’s Score for Leading, Performing, and Living in Concert by Edward Martin Baker
- Men and Rubber: The Story of Business by Harvey Firestone
- Around the Corner to Around the World: A Dozen Lessons I Learned Running Dunkin Donuts by Robert Rosenberg
- Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The Wisdom of Legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser by Dan Levy
- Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters by Timothy Keller
You can check out my full list here.
Title photo by Mike Kalasnik via Creative Commons license.