The 20 best business books of 2016

It's hard to keep track of every awesome business book that was published in 2016.We've got your back. Below, we've rounded up the best reads out there focusing on entrepreneurship, negotiation, and more. There's everything from the story of two psychologists who rocked economists' world toa guide to making a career changefrom a former Googler.It's the perfect list to choose from if you're looking for something scintillating to curl up with over the holidaysor for a last-minute gift.SEE ALSO:I read 15 books this year on happiness, productivity, and success ' here are the most meaningful insights I've taken away'Shoe Dog' by Phil KnightNike is not only the world's biggest athletic company, with a market cap of about $88 billion. It's also, remarkably, been a worldwide leader of "cool" since the 1970s.It all started with a new college grad named Phil Knight who sold running shoes out of his parents' garage.Knight is retired as the chairman of Nike this summer, and his book "Shoe Dog" is the definitive story of how he laid the foundation of an empire. It's a well-written and emotionally engaging story about an entrepreneur growing as a human being alongside the company in which he completely invested himself.Find it here'Payoff' by Dan ArielyIn this brief and easy read,Duke University behavioral economist Dan Ariely argues that human motivation is a lot more complex than we might be inclined to believe.Case in point: Pizza motivates employees to perform better in the long term than money. Letting people take ownership of a project and giving them credit for it makes them more inclined to do it well.Managers especially can harness the power of intrinsic motivation, or doing a good job for the sake of doing a good job. But you can use the same strategieson yourselffor example, when you know you need to work out for health reasons but don't really want to.Find it here'The Undoing Project' by Michael LewisIn "The Undoing Project," "The Big Short" author Michael Lewis tells the fascinating story of two of history's most important psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky.And while this isn't a business book per se, Kahneman and Tversky's research on judgment and decision-making led to the founding of the field of behavioral economics, and is the reason Kahneman won the Nobel Prize inEconomic Sciences in 2002.Find it hereSee the rest of the story at Business Insider
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