The 6 most influential business books of 2015 by Richard Feloni on Sep 26, 2015, 10:35 AM Advertisement
 The Financial Times and McKinsey & Co. collaborated for their eleventh annual Business Book Awards and announced the six finalists this week. This year's top business books include a look at how robots are changing the global economy, an argument on what American corporations need to do to finally give women equal opportunities, and an exploration of how behavioral economics revolutionized the field. The Financial Times and McKinsey will announce the business book of the year on Nov. 17. The winning author will receive £30,000 and the runners-up will each receive £10,000. The panel determining the winner includes LinkedIn chairman Reid Hoffman and economist and Barclays director Dambisa Moyo. Scroll down to see the six most influential business books of 2015. SEE ALSO: 30 business books every professional should read before turning 30 'Rise of the Robots' by Martin Ford  Robots are increasingly intelligent and they're coming to take your job, says Ford, a software developer and entrepreneur. But rather than being a warning from a tech-fearing Luddite, Ford guides readers through the surprising evolution of artificial intelligence from simple task-based machines into quick-thinking programs that can replace service workers, journalists, and programmers.
'Unfinished Business' by Anne-Marie Slaughter  In 2009, Slaughter became the first female director of policy planning for the State department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She left her position two years later after deciding that she was unhappy with how her job prevented her from being the mother and wife she wanted to be. Slaughter explained her story in the 2012 article "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," and it became one of The Atlantic's most-read stories ever. Slaughter is now the president and CEO of the New America think tank, and her new book is a hopeful argument on what corporations and individuals can do to truly make professional men and women equals.
'Misbehaving' by Richard Thaler  Thaler is an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business best known as "the father of behavioral economics." In traditional economics, people are presumed to be purely rational actors; in reality, people's decisions are also influenced by biases and impulses that often have nothing to do with logic. "Misbehaving" serves as an introduction into Thaler's way of understanding markets, and it's filled with his colorful wit.
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