The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
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A List of the Top 100 Business Books of All Time By Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten
After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the one hundred best business titles of all time-the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today's busy readers.
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time 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 guide 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.
Contents at a Glance
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time
What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You
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Improving Your Life, Your Person, and Your Strengths
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (P.S.) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations more...0 points
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. more...0 points
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
What makes an effective executive? The measure of more...0 points
How to Be a Star at Work: 9 Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed by Robert E. Kelley
"Do you know what it takes to be a star at work? more...0 points
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author more...0 points
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How to Win Friends and Influence People is the first, more...0 points
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition (Collins Business Essentials) by Harvey B. Mackay
This straight-from-the-hip handbook by bestselling more...0 points
The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work by Gary Klein
At times in our careers, we've all been aware of a more...0 points
What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
In What Should I Do with My Life? Po Bronson tells more...0 points
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
Illus. in full color. "Don't be fooled by the more...0 points
Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life by Eugene O'Kelly
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chasing Daylight is the more...0 points
Leadership
Inspiration, Challenge, Courage, Change
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
Deemed "the dean of leadership gurus" by more...0 points
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All by Michael Useem
Are you ready for the leadership moment?Merck's Roy more...0 points
The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition by James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
The most trusted resource on becoming a leader is now more...0 points
Leadership Is an Art by Max Depree
LEADERSHIP IS AN ART has long been a must-read not more...0 points
The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership by Steve Farber
The business world is ready for an entirely new approach more...0 points
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will (Collins Business Essentials) by Noel M. Tichy, Stratford Sherman
Acknowledged as the outstanding business leader of more...0 points
Leading Change by John P. Kotter
One of the world's foremost experts on business le more...0 points
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature by Joseph L., Jr. Badaracco
The hardest tests for leaders challenge their character more...0 points
The Story Factor (2nd Revised Edition) by Annette Simmons
A modern classic, revised and expanded: How the ag more...0 points
Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches by Winston S. Churchill
THIS CD CONTAINS: Historical Winston Churchill Mem more...0 points
Strategy
Eight Organizational Blueprints From Which To Draft Your Own
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters, Robert H. Waterman
The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" more...0 points
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management more...0 points
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) by Clayton M. Christensen
In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor more...0 points
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
Under Andy Grove's leadership, Intel has become the more...0 points
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? : Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Gerstner
In 1990, IBM had its most profitable year ever. By more...0 points
Discovering the Soul of Service: The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Success by Leonard L. Berry
In a world where customers regard flawless products more...0 points
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver more...0 points
Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
Hamel and Prahalad offer a masterful blueprint for more...0 points
Sales and Marketing
Approaches And Pitfalls In The Ongoing Process Of Creating Customers
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials) by Robert B. Cialdini
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains more...0 points
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind, 20th Anniversary Edition by Al Ries, Jack Trout
Ries and Trout taught me everything I know about branding, more...0 points
A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Century by Scott Bedbury, Stephen Fenichell
What does it really take to succeed in business today? more...0 points
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith
A comprehensive guide to service marketing furnish more...0 points
Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier
"When everybody zigs, zag," says Marty N more...0 points
Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Here is the bestselling guide that created a new game more...0 points
Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
Whether presenting a product or principle, service more...0 points
How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules For Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients by Jeffrey J. Fox
Filled with smart tips given in the Fox signature more...0 points
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond by Paco Underhill
Revolutionary retail guru Paco Underhill is back with more...0 points
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage by B. Joseph Pine, James H. Gilmore
Future economic growth lies in the value of experi more...0 points
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter by Seth Godin
The classic bestseller that taught the business world more...0 points
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
This celebrated New York Times bestsellernow poise more...0 points
Rules and Scorekeeping
The All-Important Numbers Behind The Game
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
Finally! A book about economics that won't put you more...0 points
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case
Understanding the Financials-and What Lies Behind Them more...0 points
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Here is the book--by the recognized architects of the more...0 points
Management
Guiding And Directing The People Around You
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
Father of modern management, social commentator, and more...0 points
Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
"Long-term commitment to new learning and new more...0 points
Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production by Taiichi Ohno
Here's the first information ever published in Jap more...0 points
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (Collins Business Essentials) by Michael Hammer, James Champy
The most successful business book of the last decade, more...0 points
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
A fully dramatized version of the practical guide more...0 points
The Great Game of Business (Spanish Edition) by Jack Stack
A successful businessman shares a philosophy of ma more...0 points
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
The greatest managers in the world seem to have little more...0 points
Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our more...0 points
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
The market for business knowledge is booming, as companies more...0 points
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series) by Patrick Lencioni
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni more...0 points
Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
Using case studies and real-life examples of his & more...0 points
Biographies
Seven Lives. Unlimited Lessons.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billiona more...0 points
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company (Collins Business Essentials) by David Packard
Much more personal than standard corporate histories, more...0 points
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyAn extraordinarily more...0 points
Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon
The president and CEO of Scandinavia Airlines (SAS) more...0 points
Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton
It's a story about entrepreneur, and risk, and har more...0 points
Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
"Oh, screw it, let's do it."That's the philosophy more...0 points
Entrepreneurship
Seven Guides To The Passion And Practicality Necessary For Any New Venture
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are more...0 points
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
In this first new and totally revised edition of t more...0 points
The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler
Through a 20-month exchange of faxes, this book ch more...0 points
The Partnership Charter: How To Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix The One You're In) by David Gage
For the 30 million business partners and co-owners, more...0 points
Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
Nearly everyone harbors a secret dream of starting more...0 points
Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business by Jay Conrad Levinson
When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, more...0 points
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living by Randy Komisar
What would you be willing to do for the rest of your more...0 points
Narratives
Six Industry Tales Of Both Fortune And Failure
McDonald's: Behind The Arches by John F. Love
An informative study filled with behind-the-scenes more...0 points
American Steel by Richard Preston
A report on the resurrection of an American Dream more...0 points
The Force by David Dorsey
"If you want to know how America's business wars more...0 points
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Just as Watergate was the defining political story more...0 points
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
John Meriwether, a famously successful Wall Street more...0 points
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
"One of the best baseball-and management-books more...0 points
Innovation And Creativity
Insight Into The Process Of Developing New Ideas
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie
Creativity is crucial to business success. But too more...0 points
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm by Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and more...0 points
Jump Start Your Business Brain: The Scientific Way To Make More Money by Doug Hall
Doug Hall shares data-proven methods that can make more...0 points
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative by Roger von Oech
This is the 25th anniversary edition of the creativity more...0 points
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp
All it takes to make creativity a part of your life more...0 points
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing more...0 points
Big Ideas
The Future Of Business Books Lies Here
The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
Named one of the ten best business books of 1990 b more...0 points
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
In a book about the marriage of the born and the m more...0 points
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life by Richard Florida
The national bestseller that defines a new economic more...0 points
Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, more...0 points
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) by Paul R. Lawrence, Nitin Nohria
A touchstone for understanding how we behave on the more...0 points
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski
The moral of this book is that behind every great more...0 points
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist more...0 points
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway more...0 points
Takeaways
What Everyone Is Looking For
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins
Whether challenged with taking on a startup, turning more...0 points
Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series) by Robert C. Townsend, Warren Bennis
Although it was first published more than thirty-five more...0 points
Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots by Chris Zook
All companies must grow to survive-but only one in more...0 points
Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness by Jeffrey Gitomer
Sales master Jeffrey Gitomer has created a real-world, more...0 points
What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan
The universal laws of business success . . . no matter more...0 points
The Team Handbook Third Edition by Peter R Scholtes, Brian L. Joiner, Barbara J Streibel
This updated best-selling, comprehensive resource more...0 points
A Business and Its Beliefs by Thomas J. Jr. Watson
The timeless business book that still brings perspective more...0 points
Lucky Or Smart?: Fifty Pages for the First-Time Entrepreneur by Bo Peabody
At twenty-seven, Bo Peabody was an Internet multi- more...0 points
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
A brilliant investigation of globalization, the most more...0 points
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques (2nd Edition) by Michael Michalko
THINKERTOYS will teach you how to generate new ideas more...0 points
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded) by Michael J. Mauboussin
Since its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin's more...0 points
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