Google Grills Zombies, China Scorns Suicide: Top Business Books

Google Inc. grills “zombie hordes” of job applicants with fiendish puzzles and China spurns “suicidal” economic shock therapy in two of our favorite business books of late. Here’s a list of recommended titles.

“Adapt” by Tim Harford (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Little, Brown). We all struggle to accept our failures and cut our losses. Yet admitting our mistakes holds a key to solving intractable problems, says Harford, who writes the Undercover Economist column for the Financial Times. “Success,” he argues, “always starts with failure.”