Suggested Reading
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Ratings:
- O = Outstanding
- E = Excellent
- VG = Very Good
- G = Good
Leadership | |
42 Rules For Your New Leadership Role | G |
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 |
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 |
Playing To Win | VG |
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 |
Servant Leadership | O |
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 |
What Matters Now | 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 |
Best Practices Are Stupid | G |
The Best & Worst of Horseracing (NEW) | E |
Creating Mega Results | E |
Crisis Management for Corporate Self Defense | G |
Crucial Confrontations | O |
Demographics Magazine (monthly) | VG |
Driven | O |
Defining Moments | O |
Don't Fire Them, Fire Them Up | G |
Drinking From The Fire Hose | VG |
Drive | E |
Empowered Teams | VG |
Franklin Quest | G |
Game Storming | G | The Gamesman | VG |
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got | E |
Growing Pains | E |
Harada Method | E |
Heroz | O |
Hidden Value | VG |
How The Way We Talk Can Change The Way We Work | O |
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 |
Just Listen | 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 |
Resolving Conflict | 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 |
Three Rules | E |
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 |
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 |
High Velocity Edge | 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 |