Take a look back on the “best of” from the past year with our list of Top 10 Business Books of 2021: all written with the goal of helping you think tactically, develop financial savvy, and ultimately improve your business outcomes.

With a wide range of topics covered, from networking to Nietzsche, we’d like to think this list has a little something for everyone interested in great, current business books today.

All published in 2021, what could be better than starting your 2022 with a great business plan? Don’t miss out!

*The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche*

By Dave Jilk, Brad Feld
Published by Scribe Media
**Rights Sold: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Russian, Portuguese (Portugal), Korean**

Serial entrepreneur Dave Jilk and venture capitalist Brad Feld extract from Nietzsche a modern Art of War, connecting the dots to our high-tech business environment. Each quick, digestible chapter expands on a quote from Nietzsche to stimulate your thinking about a vital aspect of entrepreneurship, and stories from entrepreneurs help make the ideas concrete.

*Story Like You Mean It*

By Dr. Dennis Rebelo
Published by Scribe Media
**Rights Sold: Chinese (Simplified), German**

Each of us has a story to share, a mixture of lived experiences—planned and unplanned—that come together and give our existence shape and identity. But in a world where we rely on screens and images for communication and self-expression, do we truly know how to tell our story? Do you know how to tell yours? In Story Like You Mean It, Dr. Dennis Rebelo helps you communicate with ease and connect with others by constructing a self-narrative with intention and purpose.

*Reimagining Collaboration*

By Phil Simon
Published by Motion Publishing
**Rights Sold: Russian**

We have lacked a holistic framework to understand the remarkable power of new collaboration technologies, much less unleash them. At least until now. In Reimagining Collaboration, award-winning author and recognized technology expert Phil Simon provides this essential framework. He advances a new, bold, and holistic model of work-one based upon hubs and spokes. No theoretical text, Simon offers concrete tips for companies and groups on how to transform the way they work.

*Blockchain Wars*

By Evan McFarland
Published by Evan McFarland
**Rights Sold: Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)**

Evan McFarland deploys an encyclopedic grasp of the blockchain landscape to help tech entrepreneurs, business owners, government leaders, cryptocurrency investors, and other industry professionals fit together the separate pieces of a widely-dispersed technological puzzle that, once solved, will help us improve our daily lives, as well as the trajectory of modern technologies. A balanced mixture of hard science and bold speculation, Blockchain Wars is the definitive guide to both the present and the future of blockchain technology.

*Finance Secrets of Billion Dollar Entrepreneurs*

By Dileep Rao
FIU Business Press, an imprint of Mango Publishing
**World Rights Available**

Build your business without venture capital (VC) funding. Rao is here to show entrepreneurs that it is possible to start a business without outside help. He shares how more than 90 percent of America’s billion-dollar entrepreneurs in the VC era (since 1946) avoided or delayed VC, and instead used finance-smart expertise―skills that combine business-smart, capital-smart, and leadership-smart strategies.

*An Introvert’s Guide to World Domination*

By Nick Shelton
Houndstooth Press
**World Rights Available**

Social discomfort shouldn’t stop you from making connections, succeeding in business, or upgrading your life and lifestyle. An Introvert’s Guide to World Domination will teach you how to do this, and navigate social events with ease. By breaking the process down into bite-sized steps, Nick Shelton offers practical, reliable strategies for forming lasting connections with others.

*Holistic Wealth*

By Keisha Blair, Foreword by Kelly Rutherford
Published by Girl Friday Books
**Rights Sold: English (Australia), Hungarian**

Build a better, richer life by following thirty-two lessons that lead to happiness. Imagine a life where you are financially savvy and independent, living with purpose and generosity while inspiring others. Holistic Wealth will teach you to master these tenets of a happy and joyful life, giving you a greater sense of wholeness and resilience in times of difficulty.

*Unlock It*

By Dan Lok
Published by ForbesBooks
**Rights Sold: Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Polish, French**

After ten years since his last best-selling book, Dan Lok, founder of Closers.com is finally unveiling his new book! In Unlock It, you'll find the strategies and methods Dan used personally to go from being a poor immigrant boy with $150,000 debt to becoming a global social phenomenon and the leader of the largest virtual closing organization in the world.

*Remarkable Retail*

By Steve Dennis
Published by Life Tree Media Ltd
**Rights Sold:** **English (United States)**

Physical retail isn’t dead—but boring retail is! Remarkable Retail equips the savvy retailer with eight essential strategies to bounce back from the covid-19 downturn and thrive in the years to come. In Remarkable Retail, industry thought leader Steve Dennis argues that it’s no longer enough merely to offer convenience, decent prices, or an okay shopping experience. Even very good is no longer good enough. To win and keep customers today, retailers must be nothing short of remarkable.

*Infinity Investing*

By Toby Mathis
Published by ForbesBooks
**Rights Sold:** **Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, English Reprint (India)**

Toby Mathis has created a road map for achieving long-term financial freedom called Infinity Investing, and it is built on the idea that anyone can (and should) increase their financial class status. His approach takes the long view. It won’t happen overnight, but if you follow the steps he describes, you will greatly increase the odds that you can escape the financial treadmill that many Americans live on—what Toby describes as financial prison.