List of popular business books

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  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Samuel B. Griffith, (Oxford University Press, 1963)
  • Atlas of Management Thinking by Edward De Bono (Penguin Books, 1981)

[edit] B

  • Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1922)
  • Biography of a Buick (aka Motor City) by Bill Morris, (Granta Books, 1992)
  • Boards at Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage by Ram Charan, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1998)
  • Bombardiers by Po Bronson, (Random House Inc., 1995)
  • Business Wargames by Barrie James (Abacus Press, 1984)

[edit] C

  • Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist edited by Tiha von Ghyczy, Bolko von Oetinger, and Christopher Bassford, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001)
  • Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion by H. Igor Ansoff, (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1965; out of print)
  • Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market — and How to Successfully Transform Them by Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan, (Random House Inc., Currency, 2001)
  • Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 0-07-140194-6)
  • Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top by Jay A. Conger, Edward E. Lawler III, and David L. Finegold, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., Jossey-Bass, 2001)
  • Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop, (Touchstone Books, 1992)
  • Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales Force by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba (ISBN 1-07-931556-1-4)
  • Customers.com by P. Seybold, Crown Business Books (Random House)

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[edit] E

  • The End of Shareholder Value: Corporations at the Crossroads by Allan A. Kennedy, (Perseus Publishing, 2000)
  • The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss, (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966)

[edit] F

  • Funky Business by Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale, (Pearson, 2000)
  • From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental’s Remarkable Comeback by Gordon Bethune with Scott Huler, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998)
  • A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, (Crown Business, 2000)

[edit] G

  • Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don’t by Jim Collins, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 2001)
  • Gain by Richard Powers, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

[edit] H

  • Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People by Charles A. O’Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)
  • House of All Nations by Christina Stead, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1938; out of print)
  • The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman, (Rinehart & Co., 1946; out of print)
  • The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard, edited by David Kirby with Karen Lewis, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1995)

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  • The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management by Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1997)
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, (Harvard Business School Press,1997)
  • Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 2001)
  • Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)

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  • Karaoke Capitalism by Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale, (Pearson, 2004)
  • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, (Oxford University Press, 1995)

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  • Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious by James O’Toole, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1999)
  • The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1987)
  • The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level by Noel M. Tichy with Eli Cohen, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1997)
  • Leadership without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz, (Harvard University Press, 1994)
  • Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree, (Doubleday & Co., 1989)
  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)
  • The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, and Joel Hyatt, (Perseus Publishing, 1999)
  • The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson, (Librairie Charpentier, 1883)

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  • Making it Happen by John Harvey-Jones
  • Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker, (Harper & Row, 1974)
  • Marketing Warfare by Al Ries and Jack Trout (McGraw-Hill, 1986)
  • The Mind of the Strategist: Business planning for competitive advantage by Kenichi Ohmae (Penguin Books, 1982) ISBN 0-14-006722-1
  • Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, (ReganBooks, 1995)
  • Money by Martin Amis, (Penguin Books Ltd., 1984)
  • The Money Game by Adam Smith (Dell Publishing, 1967)
  • Moments of Truth: New Strategies for Today’s Customer-Driven Economy by Jan Carlzon, (Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987)
  • Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall (Oxford University Press, 1988)
  • My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., edited by John McDonald with Catharine Stevens, (Macfadden-Bartell Books, 1963)
  • The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto, (Basic Books, 2000)

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  • Nice Work by David Lodge, (Penguin Books Ltd., 1988)
  • A New View of Society by Robert Owen, (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813)

[edit] O

  • On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1989)

[edit] P

  • Peak Performance by Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts & Ed Weymes (ISBN 1-86197-503-1)
  • Positioning: The battle for your mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout, (Warner Books - McGraw-Hill Inc., 1981 ISBN 0-446-34794-9)
  • The Patton Mind: The Professional Development of an Extraordinary Leader by Roger H. Nye, (Avery Publishing Group, 1992)
  • Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America’s Corporate Boards by Jay W. Lorsch with Elizabeth MacIver, (Harvard Business School Press, 1989)
  • Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997)

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  • Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by Michael Hammer and James A. Champy (ISBN 0-06-662112-7)
  • The Representation of Business in English Literature edited by Arthur Pollard, (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2000)

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  • The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, (Harvard Business School Press, 2001)
  • Small is Beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered by E. F. Schumacher (Abacus, 1973)
  • Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 1998)
  • Strategy of the Dolphin, Scoring a win in a chaotic world by D. Lynch and P. Kordis (Ballantine Books, 1988) ISBN 0-449-90529-2
  • The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz, (Heinemann Publishing, 2001)
  • The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser, (Crowell, 1947; out of print)
  • Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein, (MIT Press, 1998)

[edit] T

  • The Titan by Theodore Dreiser, (John Lane Co., 1914)
  • Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen, (Random House Inc., 1999)

[edit] U

  • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits by Robert Townsend, (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1970; out of print)
  • Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business by Mary J. Cronin, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

[edit] V

  • Value Migration: How to think several moves ahead of the competition by Adrian Slywotzky (Harvard Business School Press, 1996) ISBN 0-87584-632-7
  • The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (P.B. Belknap Press, 1977)

[edit] W

  • What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan (ISBN 0-609-60839-8)
  • The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1953)
  • What They don't Teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack (ISBN 1-86197-564-3)

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