Suggested Reading

NEW! Business Book Digest
Click on the titles highlighted in red for book summaries.

Ratings:

O = Outstanding
E = Excellent
VG = Very Good
G = Good


 Leadership
Rating 
 The Art of Possibilities O
 The Balanced Scorecard E
 Building Leaders  G
 Built to Last  G
 The Centerless Corporation  G
 CEO Magazine (monthly) O
 The Circle of Innovation  G
 Communicating Change  G
 Competing for the Future (NEW) O
 Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will  O
 The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison  G
 The E-Myth Manager  E

 Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

 O
 The Executive Odyssey  VG
 Fad Surfing in the Boardroom  E
 The Flight of the Buffalo  E
 Forbes Magazine (monthly)  E
 Ford, The Men & The Machine  E
 Get Better or Get Beaten  VG
 The Great Game of Business  E
 Grinding It Out  E
 Growing a Business  VG
 Good to Great - Jim Altfeld Summary (NEW)
 Good to Great - Ken McGuire Summary (NEW)
 VG
 Harvard Business Review (monthly)  E
 Henry Ford, Biography  E
 I'd Like the World to Buy a Coke  E
 If It Ain't Broke, Break It  E
 Innovation and Entrepreneurship  E
 It's Good Business  E
 Jack Welch and the GE Way  G
 Jack Welch Speaks  VG
 Jack Straight From the Gut  O
 John W. Gardner on Leadership (NEW)  O
 Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business E
 Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness VG
 Leadership is an Art  VG
 Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun  VG
 Managing in a Time of Great Change  E
 Maverick (NEW)  O
 Measuring Corporate Performance
 VG
 Memos to the President VG
 Nuts!  O
 Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
VG
 The Power of Strategic Thinking
E
 The Power Point (NEW)
VG
 Reengineering the Corporation  VG
 The Road Ahead  VG
 The Seven Levels of Change  VG
 A Stake in the Outcome O
 The SkunkWorks  O
 Straight From the CEO  E
 Think and Grow Rich E
 Think Out of the Box  VG
 Thriving in Chaos  VG
 Titan: The Life of John D. Rockerfeller, Sr.  O
 Total Contingency Planning for Disasters  VG
 Uncommon Friends
VG
 Visionary Leadership
VG
 Book of the Month:
Why Smart Executives Fail
O
 What the CEO Wants You to Know

G

 Wisdom of the CEO E
 A Year of Growing Rich by Napolean Hill O

 

 

 Management
Rating 
 Becoming a Better Value Creator G
 Crisis Management for Corporate Self Defense  G
 Demographics Magazine (monthly)  VG
 Driven O
 Don't Fire Them, Fire Them Up  G
 Empowered Teams VG
 Franklin Quest  G
 The Gamesman  VG
 Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got E
 Growing Pains E
 Heroz  O
 Hidden Value  VG
 The Industry Standard Magazine (monthly)  VG
 Inside the Tornado  G
 It's Your Ship by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff  O
 Liberation Management  VG
 Maslow On Management O
 Managing Automation Magazine (monthly)  E
 My Years with General Motors
VG
 The New Turnaround (NEW)
E
 Real Time
 G
 Reengineering Management
 E
 Sales Management  O
 Self-Defence Finance for Small Businesses  E
 Sacred Hoops  E
 Seven Habits  VG
 Success Magazine (Monthly)

 VG

 The Wall Street Journal (daily)  E
 What Do I Do Now? E
 Winning Through Innovation  E
 Zapp!  O
 
  Marketing
Rating 
 Bottom-Up Marketing  E
 Business to Business Marketing

O

 E-Strategy Pure & Simple G
 Kotler on Marketing (NEW)  G
 Leapfrogging the Competition  VG
 The Loyalty Effect  E
 Managing Channels of Distribution  E
 The Marketing Imagination  G
 Marketing Warfare  E
 
 Sales
Rating 
 10 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople  VG
 Conceptual Selling O
 Customer Loyalty (NEW) E
 Customers for Life  VG
 Dig Your Well Before You'reThirsty E
 How to Hire & Develop Your Next Top Performer O
 The Greatest Salesman in the World  E
 Integrated Account Management  VG
 Key Accounts are Different  E
 Moments of Truth
VG
 Pushing the Envelope (NEW) VG
 Rethinking the Sales Force O
 Sales Management  O
 Selling Machine  G
 Selling with Integrity  O
 Strategic Selling  VG
 Successful Large Account Management  VG
 Taking Charge & Letting Go

 VG

 Unlimited Referrals

VG

 Visionary Selling

G

 
 Manufacturing
Rating 
 All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage E
 Let's Fix It! (NEW)  VG
 The Goal  O
 The Road to Manufactiring Success

E

 The Soul of the Enterprise (NEW)

E

 World Class Manufacturing

G

 
 Finance
Rating 
 Basic Economics  O
 Common Cents  G
 The 36 Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers  VG
 
 World Trade
Rating 
 Globalwork  VG
 

 Tapes  Rating
 Buying a Business  VG
 Creative Thinking  E
 E-Myth Seminar  E
 Entrepreneurial Thinking  E
 How to Delegate  VG
 The Management Advantage  VG
 Nine Traits to a Highly Successful Work Team  VG
 Practical Coaching Skills  VG
 Project Management  VG
 Re-Engineering Yourself  O
 Selling to Vito VG
 




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