I happened to visit Santa Clara County Library during my stay with my daughter. As I was always on lookout of latest good management books, I searched the section of New Book Arrivals. Within no time, my search ended. I got the book which gave book reviews of many best titles in business management i.e.
The 100 Best Business Books of All time’
by
Jack Covert and Todd Satterstein
I was glad that some of my favorite books which taught me a lot in managing and transforming a ‘struggling for survival company’ into ‘a firm aspiring for growth and maturity’ were included in the collection.
The website devoted for marketing this book www.100bestbiz.com gives a category-wise list of all books. The site also gives a PDF of book reviews which can be used as supplement to the list.
I do not know whether the book is available in India. Hence for the convenience of students of management and knowledge thirsty managers, I am reproducing list as below.
The books, I read, form a very small part in list and came to know about other important books I should read. I was delighted to find concise summary of the books worth reading selected by management experts from thousands of books available in the market.. Each book review also brings out the main message or word of advice in BOLD TYPE.
The book is not for casual readers or of temporary reading material. It is full of serious thinking and analysis of management problems and solutions found by CEOs of well known businesses. The book will serve as an excellent reference book for libraries of management training institutes as well as professionals and small businesses who can’t afford to have all the books in their own libraries.
I congratulate the authors for doing a wonderful job of compiling essentials from selected best management books and inspiring readers to read those books in detail. The publisher also deserve thanks for bringing out the book in attractive and effective readable format.
I would expect that authors would come out with similar book on Information Technology, which has greatest influence on world economy.
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You (Improving your life, your person and your strengths.)
1. Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
2. Getting Things Done by David Allen (also available in CD and audio)
3. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
4. How to Be a Star at Work by Robert E. Kelley
5. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (also available in audio)
6. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (also available in audio)
7. Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey B. Mackay
8. The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein
9. What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson (also available in audio)
10. Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss/Theodore Geisel (also available in audio)
11. Chasing Daylight by Eugene O'Kelly
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Leadership (Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change)
12. On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
13. The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem
14. The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner (also available in CD)
15. Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree (also available in CD and audio)
16. The Radical Leap by Steve Farber
17. Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Tichy and Sherman (also available in CD)
18. Leading Change by John P. Kotter (also available in CD and audio)
19. Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
20. The Story Factor by Annette Simmons
21. Never Give In! Speeches by Winston Churchill (also available in audio)
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Strategy (Eight organizational blueprints from which to draft your own.)
22. In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
23. Good to Great by Jim Collins
24. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (also available in audio)
25. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
26. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (also available in audio)
27. Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard Berry
28. Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan (also available in CD and audio)
29. Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad
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Sales and Marketing (Approaches and pitfalls in the ongoing process of creating customers.)
30. New Brand World by Scott Bedbury with Stephen Fenichell
31. Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith (also available in CD and audio)
32. Zag by Marty Neumeier
33. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
34. Secrets of Influence by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
35. Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
36. A Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar (also available in CD and audio)
37. How to Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J. Fox (also available in CD and audio)
38. Why We Buy by Paco Underhill (also available in audio)
39. The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore (also available in audio)
40. Purple Cow by Seth Godin (also available in audio)
41. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (also available in CD and audio)
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Rules and Scorekeeping (The all-important numbers behind the game.)
42. Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
43. Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
44. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
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Management (Guiding and directing the people around you)
45. The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
46. Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
47. Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno (also available in CD)
48. Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy
49. The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox (also available in CD and audio)
50. The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
51. First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (also available in CD)
52. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Buckingham and Clifton (also available in CD)
53. The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
54. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (also available in audio)
55. Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
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Biographies
(Seven lives. Unlimited lessons.)
56. Titan by Ron Chernow
57. My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
58. The HP Way by David Packard
59. Personal History by Katharine Graham
60. Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon
61. Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey
62. Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
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Entrepreneurship
(Seven guides to the passion and practicality necessary for any new venture.)
63. The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki (also available in CD and audio)
64. The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber (also available in CD and audio)
65. The Republic of Tea ** by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler, and Bill Rosenzweig
66. The Partnership Charter by David Gage
67. Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
68. Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson (also available audio)
69. The Monk and the Riddle Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback
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Narratives(Six industry tales of both fortune and failure.)
70. McDonald’s: Behind the Arches by John F. Love
71. American Steel ** by Richard Preston
72. The Force by David Dorsey
73. The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
74. When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
75. Moneyball by Michael Lewis (also available in audio)
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Innovation & Creativity(Insight into the process of developing new ideas.)
76. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
77. The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman (also available in audio)
78. Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug Hall
79. A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger Von Oech
80. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
81. The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
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Big Ideas (The future of business books lies here).
82. The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
83. Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
84. The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
85. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (also available in CD and audio)
86. Driven by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
87. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski
88. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki (also available in audio)
89. Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (also available in CD and audio)
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Takeaways (What everyone is looking for.)
90. The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins (also available in CD and audio)
91. Up the Organization by Robert Townsend
92. Beyond the Core by Chris Zook
93. Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer (also available in CD and audio)
94. What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
95. The Team Handbook by Peter Scholtes, Brian Joiner, and Barbara Streibel
96. A Business and Its Belief by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
97. Lucky or Smart? by Bo Peabody (also available in audio)
98. The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman (also available in CD and audio)
99. Thinker toys by Michael Michalko
100. More Than You Know by Michael J. Mauboussin
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