书单：最值得读的商业英文原著——FT/麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖入围名单

01书单：最值得读的商业英文原著——FT/麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖入围名单

商界发生的大事那么多，你都看懂了吗？想抽时间啃几本商业领域的英文原著？FT/麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖，最懂行的人以六部入围作品，充实你的大脑和假期。

近日，英国《金融时报》和麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖入围名单揭晓，6部“直击世界经济和管理重大挑战”的重量级著作从15部初选作品中脱颖而出，赢得了评委的青睐。英国《金融时报》和麦肯锡年度最佳商业图书奖创立于2005年，颁发给那些为商业提供“最令人瞩目和愉快的”见解的图书。

以下为这六部著作的简介，看看能不能找到让你不忍释卷的那一本？

1).Alibaba《阿里巴巴》

《阿里巴巴》Alibaba

Duncan Clark

Ecco(April 12, 2016)

Amazon.com 评分：4.2星/29人评价

（中国大陆主流网上商城可以购买）

Duncan Clark first met Jack in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba.Granted unprecedented access to a wealth of new material including exclusive interviews, Clark draws on his own experience as an early advisor to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet's impact on the country to create an authoritative, compelling narrative account of Alibaba's rise.

作者邓肯·克拉克在1999年第一次会见马云，地点就在他当年创建阿里巴巴的狭小房间里。克拉克根据早年自身在阿里巴巴任职顾问的经历，结合在中国20年梳理互联网对该国影响的工作经验，在授权得到前所未有的大量资料后（包括独家采访），创造出这样一本权威、令人惊叹的阿里巴巴崛起史。

How did Jack overcome his humble origins and early failures to achieve massive success with Alibaba? How did he outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley? Can Alibaba maintain its 80% market share? As it forges ahead into finance and entertainment, are there limits to Alibaba's ambitions? How does the Chinese government view its rise? Will Alibaba expand further overseas, including in the U.S.?

马云如何克服他卑微的出身和早期的失败，使阿里巴巴获得巨大成功的？他如何击败中国和硅谷的竞争者？阿里巴巴能否保持其80%的市场占有率？在进军金融和娱乐版块后，有没有遭遇限制其野心的天花板？中国政府如何看待阿里巴巴的崛起？阿里巴巴会不会扩张到海外，到美国？

Clark tells Alibaba's tale in the context of China's momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely corporate titan as never before.

在中国重大的经济和社会变革背景下，克拉克为你讲述阿里巴巴的传说，诠释一个空前的如梦如幻的企业巨头。

2).The Man Who Knew《知者：格林斯潘传》

《知者：格林斯潘传》The Man Who Knew

Sebastian Mallaby

Penguin Press (October 11, 2016)

暂未出版

Amazon.com 评分：暂无

To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years--and the presidency from Reagan to George W.Bush--in a whole new light.

倘若想要了解格林斯潘的故事，那就要用全新的眼光审视过去30年（从里根到小布什政府执政时代）的经济和政治形势。

Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet.

历经五年，基于对艾伦·格林斯潘项目的无限制调查，和对他专业心腹及私人密友的采访，塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比撰写出权威的艾伦·格林斯潘传记，带你直击政治和经济交汇的神秘地带。

3).Makers and Takers《制造者与索取者》

《制造者与索取者》Makers and Takers

Rana Foroohar

Crown Business (May 17, 2016)

Amazon.com 评分：4.3星/137人评价

（中国大陆主流网上商城可以购买）

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned—and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever.

距离大萧条后最严重的市场崩溃——2008年金融危机——已经8年了，而人们还没有汲取它的关键教训。我们的金融系统还像以前一样脆弱。

Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis.

许多人都知道我们的政府在次贷危机后修复银行系统的举措失败了。

But what few of us realize is how the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate ALL American businesses, putting us on a collision course for another cataclysmic meltdown.

但是鲜为人知的是，这一场几近推翻了全球金融系统的金融实践和金融哲学，是如何渗透到全美的商业中，让我们跌跌撞撞地驶向下一次灾难性暴跌。

4).The Rise and Fall of American Growth 《美国成长的兴衰》

《美国成长的兴衰》The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Robert J.Gordon

Princeton University Press (January 22, 2016)

Amazon.com 评分：4.3星/125人评价

（中国大陆主流网上商城可以购买） 《纽约时报》畅销书

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces.

在内战结束后的一个世纪里，一场经济革命以无法想象的方式提高了美国人的生活水平。电灯、自来水、家电、机动车辆、航空旅行、空调、电视……这一切都改变了家庭环境和公共场所。

With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years.

随着医疗水平的进步，人类平均寿命从1870年的45岁增长到1970年的72岁。

Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.

《美国成长的兴衰》是一部将生动叙述、历史轶事和经济分析交织在一起的书卷，对上述这一重要的时代进行了深度重现。

迅速发展的时代已经走到了尽头吗？ 作者对“经济增长势头不会减弱”发起质疑，认为1870到1970年的发展和改革无法复制。他甚至提醒：

Gordon warns that the younger generation may be the first in American history that fails to exceed their parents' standard of living, and that rather than depend on the great advances of the past, we must find new solutions to overcome the challenges facing us.

戈登警告道，年轻一代或许将成为美国历史上第一批生活质量无法超越其父辈的一代。我们必须找到新的方法来克服面临的这一难题，而不是依赖着过去的伟大进步。

5).The 100-Year Life《百岁人生》

《百岁人生》The 100-Year Life

Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott

Featherstone Education (June 2, 2016)

Amazon.com 评分：4.2星/33人评价

（中国大陆主流网上商城可以购买）

What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time?

百岁的人生是怎样的？需要工作60、70年吓到你了吗？还是拥有这么多的额外时间让你看到了去拥有更刺激的未来的可能性？

Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.The 100-Year Life is here to help.

无论你是18岁、45岁还是60岁，你需要做的事情都和前代人非常不同，要学会以全新的方法构建你的生活。《百岁人生》教你怎么做。

6).What Works《什么管用？》

《什么管用？》 What Works

Iris Bohnet

Belknap Press (March 8, 2016)

Amazon.com 评分：5星/4人评价

Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.The 100-Year Life is here to help.

无论你是18岁、45岁还是60岁，你需要做的事情都和前代人非常不同，要学会以全新的方法构建你的生活。《百岁人生》教你怎么做。

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative.But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people's minds has proven to be difficult and expensive.

无论是道德上还是生意上，性别平等都是极其重要的。但是无意识的偏见总是羁绊着我们，去除人们思想里的偏见被证明是艰难且代价昂贵的。

What Works is built on new insights into the human mind.It points out dozens of evidence-based interventions that could be adopted right now and demonstrates how research is addressing gender bias, improving lives and performance.What Works shows what more can be done―often at shockingly low cost and surprisingly high speed.

《什么管用？》以对人心的全新洞察作为基础。它给出了一系列基于事实的、可以立即被应用的干预措施，论证了研究如何解决性别偏见问题、提高生活水平和绩效。《什么管用？》告诉我们“还能够做什么”，且常常是以惊人的低成本和高效率。

词汇总结

forge ahead

锐意进取，取得进展

As it forges ahead into finance and entertainment, are there limits to Alibaba's ambitions?

在进军金融和娱乐版块后，（阿里巴巴）有没有遭遇限制其野心的天花板？

outsmart [aʊt'smɑːt]

v.比…更聪明；用计谋打败，战胜

How did he outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley?

他如何击败中国和硅谷的竞争者？

market meltdown

市场崩溃

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned.

距离大萧条后最严重的市场崩溃——2008年金融危机——已经8年了，而人们还没有汲取它的关键教训。

the subprime mortgage crisis

次贷危机

Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis.

许多人都知道我们的政府在次贷危机后修复银行系统的举措失败了。

weave [wiːv]

v.编织；编排；使迂回前进

Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era.

《美国成长的兴衰》是一部将生动叙述、历史轶事和经济分析交织在一起的书卷，对上述这一重要的时代进行了深度重现。