CHADDS FORD, Pa. - s4story -- Every year our team of writers and editors scour through thousands of business books and select the titles that we believe have the ideas and concepts that are instrumental to the professional development of our subscribers. For each one of those books, we create a quick-read/quick-listen summary that highlights only the most important aspects of each book.

Listed below are the 30 books that were honored in 2020. These books all cover traditional business topics like innovation, leadership, and teamwork in one way or another. There are also a few that go more in-depth and specifically tackle recent business trends such as workplace culture, hiring practices, employee engagement, and remote teams.

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The 30 Best Business Books of 2020:

1. Everyone Deserves a Great Manager by Scott Miller, Todd Davis & Victoria Roos Olsson
2. The Disruption Mindset by Charlene Li
3. DataStory by Nancy Duarte
4. How to Lead When Your Boss Can't (or Won't) by John C. Maxwell
5. Contagious You by Anese Cavanaugh
6. Noise by Joseph McCormack
7. Building the Best by John Eades
8. Propeller by Tanner Corbridge, Jared Jones, Craig Hickman & Tom Smith
9. Connect First by Melanie Katzman
10. Non-Obvious Megatrends by Rohit Bhargava
11. Inked by Jeb Blount
12. The Amazon Management System by Ram Charan & Julia Yang
13. The Intelligent Leader by John Mattone
14. Welcome to Management by Ryan Hawk
15. Optimal Outcomes by Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler
16. The Motive by Patrick Lencioni
17. Built, Not Born by Tom Golisano
18. Leading With Gratitude by Adrian Gostick & Chester Elton
19. The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt
20. Entrepreneurial Leadership by Joel Peterson
21. Communicate With Mastery by JD Schramm
22. The Catalyst by Jonah Berger
23. The Blueprint by Douglas Conant
24. The Leader's Greatest Return by John C. Maxwell
25. Mastering the Hire by Chaka Booker
26. Courageous Cultures by Karin Hurt & David Dye
27. The Creativity Leap by Natalie Nixon
28. The Book of Real-World Negotiations by Joshua Weiss
29. The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
30. The Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias by Pamela Fuller, Mark Murphy & Anne Chow

For a more more in-depth overview of each of these great books, scroll through the list of The Best Business Books of 2020 at https://www.summary.com/magazine/the-best-business-books-of-2020.

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