Our top book picks to help make your business more 21st. century

There are many articles, blog posts and even books offering expert advice on how to make your business prosper in the tough and extremely competitive business market today, how to stick above the rest, how to be different.

We’ve decided to make it a lot easier and chose 4 reads to help transform your business into the new age 21st. century business it needs to be to cut above the rest.

The 4-Hour Workweek
by Timothy Ferriss

This book offers a step by step guide how to work less and live more. How to escape the rat race. The book uses real life examples on eliminating unnecessary emails, meetings and offers high tech shortcuts to living and communicating like a diplomat.

Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce
by Kathleen Christensen

This book offers both positive and negative consequences for employers and employees that there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices—be it in the United States or abroad—redesigning the workplace is essential if today’s workers are to effectively meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve their performance.

Strategy for Sustainability
by Adam Werbach

More than ever before, consumers, employees, and investors share a common purpose and a passion for successful companies by doing good. So any strategy without sustainability at its core is just plain irresponsible – bad for business, bad for shareholders, bad for the environment.

Corporate Social Responsibility
by Philip Kotler & Nancy Lee

Modern day corporations are expected to give something back to communities they work within. Philip Kotler, one of the world’s foremost voices on business and marketing, and co author Nancy Lee explain why charity is both good P.R. and good for business. They show business leaders how to choose social causes, design charity initiatives, gain employee support, and evaluate their efforts. They also provide all the best practices and cutting-edge ideas that leaders need to maximize their contributions to social causes and do the most good.