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Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival by Carlos Ghosn
Ghosn (rhymes with phone) was trained as an engineer--and it shows. His approach to this book is to recount, with systematic detail, his rapid rise to CEO of one of the world's largest car companies. (He started out as a shift leader at a Michelin factory.) Ghosn doesn't linger on his personal life--his wife is described in only two paragraphs--but he delves into the work world. The book is particularly candid about problems at Nissan, where the author arrived as COO in 1999 and promised to resign if he didn't make the company profitable in a year. Five years later, he's about to take over as CEO of parent company Renault, and in this manual for repairing a flailing company, we see how he engineered one of the greatest turnarounds in automotive history.
--Jennifer Barrett Ozols
The Daily Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
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It's not quite the morning pick-me-up that, say, a desk calendar of "Far Side'' cartoons delivers. But these nuggets of wisdom from Drucker, the uber-guru of management thinking, has plenty going for it. The book offers pithy hits from the roughly three dozen books Drucker's written over the past 65 years. And it's a rare find in this genre--full of real insights (rather than repackaged truisms you find in many management tomes), high-minded goals and provocative questions business execs should sometimes ask, such as, "If we did not do this already, would we, knowing what we know, go into it now?'' Drucker is good on leadership, too, quoting a retired top exec about how he picks leaders: "I always ask myself, would I want one of my sons to work under that person?"
--Adam Bryant
The Athletic-Minded Traveler by Jim Kaese and Paul Huddle
Too often, business travelers who want to burn calories on the road end up in hotel gyms that haven't quite caught up to elliptical trainers or Pilates. This Zagat-styled book written by two triathletes lets you run away from old exercise equipment, with ratings of more than 500 hotel fitness venues in 50 cities from Albuquerque to Washington, D.C. The authors include categories like hotel prices, gym hours, equipment and even the best jogging routes in the area--in case you can't find a working treadmill.
--Sandy Lawrence Edry
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