Every year there is a vast outpouring of management books, far to many for any one person to read. Fortunately the majority of them have little merit! The problem, however, is how to sort the wheat from the chaff.

I regularly review management books for the Booz Allen & Hamilton magazine Strategy+Business, where we try to cover some of them that might be helpful to practicing managers. We pick those that are clearly written and help executives to frame their organizations' issues. This section has a selection of these short reviews. For a larger choice go to the Strategy+Business website (http://www.strategy-business.com/)