Suggested Reading 

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Ratings:

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


 Leadership
Rating 
 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

 Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

 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

 

 

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



 

 Classes on DVD  Rating
 America & The New Gloabal Economy (NEW)  O
 Big History (NEW)  O
 Biology & Human Behavior (NEW)  E
 Buying a Business  VG
 Creative Thinking  E
 Cycles of American Political Thought (NEW)  O
 Einstein's Relativity & the Quantum Revolution (NEW)  E
 Emerson, Thoreau & Transcendentalism (NEW)  E
 E-Myth Seminar  E
 Entrepreneurial Thinking  E
 Existentialism & The Meaning of Life (NEW)  E
 Finding Life's Purpose (NEW)  E
 Freewill and Determinism (NEW)  E
 Gateways to NOW (NEW)  E
 Great Ideas of Philosophy (NEW)  E
 Great World Religions (NEW)  E
 How to Delegate  VG
 How to Listen to & Understand Opera (NEW)  VG
 In a Presence of a Great Myth (NEW)  E
 The Management Advantage  VG
 Nine Traits to a Highly Successful Work Team  VG
 Nutrition Made Clear (NEW)  O
 The Power of NOW (NEW)  O
 Practical Coaching Skills  VG
 Project Management  VG
 Re-Engineering Yourself  O
 Secret of Self Realization (NEW)  E
 Selling to Vito VG
 Stillness Speaks (NEW)  E
 Through the Open Door to Vastness (NEW)  E
 Tool of Thought (NEW)  E
 The Will to Power: Nietzsche (NEW)  E