But if you have some time during this holiday week to step back from the information onslaught, there are a handful of truly eye-opening business books that are worth your attention. As I do every year, I pored over dozens of books to identify several gems. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe next book on my list is not a business book exactly, but it does offer a lot of great lessons about leadership: “Grant” by Ron Chernow. A substantial portion of the book examines Grant’s many failures, in business, in politics and in his personal life. It was from those failures that Grant emerged to become a two-term president, and perhaps one of the nation’s most underappreciated leaders.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2017 00:45 UTC