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Ratings:
- O = Outstanding
- E = Excellent
- VG = Very Good
- G = Good
| Leadership | |
| The Age of Unreason | VG |
| American Lion (NEW) | O |
| Animal Farm (NEW) | O |
| The Art of Possibilities | O |
| The Balanced Scorecard | E |
| Bound to Lead (NEW) | E |
| The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make (NEW VIDEO) | G |
| Building Leaders | G |
| Built to Last | G |
| Cancel Your Own Goddamn Subscription | E |
| The Centerless Corporation | G |
| CEO Magazine (monthly) | O |
| The Circle of Innovation | G |
| Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders (NEW) |
E |
| Communicating Change | G |
| Competing for the Future | O |
| Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will | O |
| Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life |
E |
| The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison | G |
| The E-Myth Manager | E |
| O | |
| The Executive Odyssey | VG |
| The Extraordinary Leader (NEW) | E |
| 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 Good to Great - Ken McGuire Summary |
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 | O |
| Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls (NEW) | E |
| Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business | E |
| The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People & Organizations |
O |
| Leadership: The Inner Side of Greatness | VG |
| Leadership is an Art | VG |
| The Leadership Moment (NEW) | E |
| Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun | VG |
| Making Sense of the Organization (NEW) | VG |
| Managing in a Time of Great Change | E |
| Maverick | O |
| Measuring Corporate Performance | VG |
| Memos to the President | VG |
| Mistakes Were Made (But not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts |
O |
| Myself and Other Important Matters | E |
| Napoleon of New York (NEW) | O |
| Nuts! | O |
| Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive | VG |
| Outliers: The Story of Success | O |
| The Power of Strategic Thinking | E |
| The Power Point | VG |
| The Power to Lead (NEW) | E |
| The Promise of American Life | O |
| Reengineering the Corporation | VG |
| The Road Ahead | VG |
| The Seven Levels of Change | VG |
| Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big |
O |
| A Stake in the Outcome | O |
| The SkunkWorks | O |
| Small Giants (NEW) | E |
| Straight From the CEO | E |
| A Team of Rivals (NEW) | O |
| The Thing Itself | G |
| 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 |
| Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (NEW) |
VG |
| Uncommon Friends | VG |
| Understanding Organizations (NEW) | VG |
| Visionary Leadership | VG |
| Waiting for the Mountain | O |
| When Nietzsche Wept | O |
| 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 |
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| Management | |
| Becoming a Better Value Creator | G |
| The Best & Worst of Horseracing (NEW) | E |
| Creating Mega Results | E |
| 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 |
| Innovation to the Core (NEW) | E |
| 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 |
| Managing the Unexpected (NEW) | VG |
| My Years with General Motors | VG |
| The New Turnaround | E |
| Outliers (New) | O |
| Punished By Rewards (NEW) | O |
| Real Time | G |
| Reengineering Management | E |
| Sales Management | O |
| Self-Defence Finance for Small Businesses | E |
| A Sense of Urgency | E |
| Sacred Hoops | E |
| Seven Habits | VG |
| Success Magazine (Monthly) | VG |
| Thank God It's Monday (NEW) | G |
| Thresholds of Motivation (NEW) | VG |
| The Wall Street Journal (daily) | E |
| What Do I Do Now? | E |
| WHO: The A Method for Hiring (NEW) | E |
| Winning Through Innovation | E |
| Zapp! | O |
| Marketing | |
| Bottom-Up Marketing | E |
| Business to Business Marketing | O |
| Corporate Blogging (NEW) | E |
| E-Strategy Pure & Simple | G |
| Kotler on Marketing | G |
| Leapfrogging the Competition | VG |
| The Loyalty Effect | E |
| Managing Channels of Distribution | E |
| The Marketing Imagination | G |
| Marketing Warfare | E |
| The New Rules for Marketing & PR (NEW) | O |
| Social Media Marketing (NEW) | O |
| Worldwide Rave (NEW) | VG |
| Sales | |
| 10 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople | VG |
| Conceptual Selling | O |
| Customer Loyalty | 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 |
| Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship (NEW) |
G |
| Moments of Truth | VG |
| Pushing the Envelope | 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 | |
| All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in Joe's Garage | E |
| Critical Chain (NEW) | E |
| Critical Thinking (NEW) | E |
| Dynamic Manufacturing | VG |
| Let's Fix It! | VG |
| The Goal | O |
| The Road to Manufactiring Success | E |
| The Soul of the Enterprise | E |
| World Class Manufacturing | G |
| Finance | |
| Basic Economics | O |
| Common Cents | G |
| The 36 Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers | VG |
| World Trade | |
| Globalwork | VG |
| Operation China (NEW) | VG |
| General | Rating |
| The Case for God (NEW) | O |
| The Future of Islam (NEW) | VG |
| Getting It Wrong (NEW) | E |
| The Good Soldiers (NEW) | E |
| The Homerun Horse (NEW) | E |
| The Hustler's Handbook (NEW) | E |
| Laffit (NEW) | E |
| Laughing in the Hills (NEW) | E |
| The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and a Patient Brought |
O |
| Loves Executioner (NEW) | E |
| Lying On the Couch (NEW) | O |
| Mistakes Were Made (NEW) | E |
| Momma & The Meaning of Life (NEW) | E |
| Monkey Luv (NEW) | O |
| Myself & Other Important Matters (NEW) | E |
| Not By a Long Shot (NEW) | E |
| The Portable Nietzsche (NEW) | E |
| Ramblin Man (NEW) | VG |
| The Schopenhauer Cure (NEW) | E |
| Tangled Web (NEW) | E |
| The Thing Itself (NEW) | G |
| With the Old Breed (NEW) | O |
| When Nietzsche Wept (NEW) | O |
| The Yalom Reader (NEW) | O |
| 30 Tons a Day (NEW) | E |
