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Thousands of business books are published every year. Far too
many for any reader to sift through single-handedly. Here are the best of the
best.
After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and
Todd Sattersten are the most respected experts on the category. Now they have
chosen the 100 best business titles of all time - the ones that deliver the
biggest payoff for today's busy readers.
The 100 Best puts each book in context, so that readers can quickly find
solutions to the problems they face, such as how best to spend The First
90 Days in a new job or how to take their company from Good to
Great. Many of the choices are surprising - you’ll find reviews of Moneyball
and Orbiting the Giant Hairball, but not Jack Welch’s memoir.
At the end of each review, Jack and Todd direct readers to other books both
inside and outside The 100 Best. And sprinkled throughout are sidebars
taking the reader beyond business books, suggesting movies, novels, and even
children's books that offer equally relevant insights.
This book will appeal to anyone, from entry-level to CEO, who wants to cut
through the clutter and discover the brilliant books that are truly worth their
investment of time and Money
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| BOOKS IN THE 100 BEST: |
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All the books in the 100 best,
separated by chapter.
You
Improving your life, your person and your strengths.
Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
Getting Things Done by David Allen
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
How to Be a Star at Work> by Robert E. Kelley
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
by Harvey B. Mackay
The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein
What Should I Do with My Life? by Po
Bronson
Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr.
Seuss/Theodore Geisel
Chasing Daylight by
Eugene O'Kelly
Leadership
Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem
The Leadership Challenge by James M.
Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree
The Radical Leap by Steve Farber
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by
Tichy and Sherman
Leading Change by John P. Kotter
Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco,
Jr.
The Story Factor by Annette Simmons
Never Give In! Speeches by Winston
Churchill
Strategy
Eight organizational blueprints from which to draft your own.
In Search of Excellence by Thomas J.
Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M.
Christensen
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S.
Grove
Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis
V. Gerstner, Jr.
Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard
Berry
Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad
Sales and Marketing
Approaches and pitfalls in the ongoing process of creating customers.
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
A New Brand World by Scott Bedbury with
Stephen Fenichell
Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
Zag by Marty Neumeier
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
How to Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J.
Fox
Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
The Experience Economy
by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Rules and Scorekeeping
The all-important numbers behind the game.
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and
Joe Knight
The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan
and David P. Norton
Management
Guiding and directing the people around you.
The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno
Reengineering the Corporation by Michael
Hammer and James Champy
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff
Cox
The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
First, Break all the Rules by Marcus
Buckingham and Curt Coffman
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Buckingham
and Clifton
The Knowing-Doing Gap
by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick
Lencioni
Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
Biographies
Seven lives. Unlimited lessons.
Titan by Ron Chernow
My Years with General Motors by Alfred P.
Sloan, Jr.
The HP Way by David Packard
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon
Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton
with John Huey
Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
Entrepreneurship
Seven guides to the passion and practicality necessary for any new venture.
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
The Republic of Tea ** by Mel Ziegler,
Patricia Ziegler, and Bill Rosenzweig
The Partnership Charter by David Gage
Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
The Monk and the Riddle Randy Komisar with
Kent Lineback
Narratives
Six industry tales of both fortune and failure.
McDonald’s: Behind the Arches by John F.
Love
American Steel ** by Richard Preston
The Force by David Dorsey
The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany
McLean and Peter Elkind
When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Innovation & Creativity
Insight into the process of developing new ideas.
Orbiting the Giant Hairball by
Gordon MacKenzie
The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with
Jonathan Littman
Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug
Hall
A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger
Von Oech
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone
Zander and Benjamin Zander
Big
Ideas
The future of business books lies here.
The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard
Florida
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Driven by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin
Nohria
To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Takeaways
What everyone is looking for.
The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
Up the Organization by Robert Townsend
Beyond the Core by Chris Zook
Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey
Gitomer
What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram
Charan
The Team Handbook by Peter Scholtes, Brian
Joiner, and Barbara Streibel
A Business and Its Belief by Thomas J.
Watson, Jr.
Lucky or Smart? by
Bo Peabody
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L.
Friedman
Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
More Than You Know by Michael J.
Mauboussin
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