 | The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $2.29 Good basis for using metrics to create continuity in an org
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 | Keeping Score: Using the Right Metrics to Drive World-Class Performance by Mark Graham Brown
Buy used from: $0.01 A good primer for metrics
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 | Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.27 An interesting psychographical look at marget segments
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $4.00 This gives an unfortunate view to the cavalier leader
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 | Disney War by James B. Stewart
Buy used from: $0.12 An interesting look into disney and corp politics
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 | Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service by Ted Kinni
Buy new: $7.88 / Used from: $5.98 Customer service by Disney... who does it better than Disney?
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 | Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior: A Commando's Guide to Success by Richard Marcinko
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.01 Don't be a chump manager, lead by example
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 | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Buy used from: $0.01 Health has no relation to cost effectiveness
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 | Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (Collins Business Essentials) by Michael Hammer
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $3.96 Case teams and progress for screwed up companies
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 | Competition Demystified : A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy by Bruce Greenwald
Buy used from: $4.39 A great book that breaks down components and case studies of competitive methods and blunders. Everything from Intel v AMD to Nintendo.
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 | The War for Talent by Ed Michaels
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.91 How difference companies leverage and inject talent into their organizations.
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 | The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company by Robert Spector
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $1.02 What differentiates Nordstroms from everyone else out there.
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 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $6.69 Theory of Constraints is basically an understanding of where your bottlenecks are, slow points, or where you are capacity limited and working to optimize that. Well told in a story format, but slightly outdated in that it uses a manufactureing setting vs. today's tech-focused setting.
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 | The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (Collins Business Essentials) by Jon R. Katzenbach
Buy new: $12.59 / Used from: $2.86 A better in-depth review of what makes teams strong, weak, how to encourage growth, and work around obstacles. A good short read.
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 | The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola, and Other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance by Peter S. Pande et al
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $1.18 A good intro to six sigma... again, not necessarily as applicable for business process as manufacturing, but still a good read.
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 | Leading Change by John P. Kotter
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $4.26 A good structure at creating change in small steps.
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 | Dealing with Darwin : How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $10.38 / Used from: $4.41 Yet another good Geoffrey Moore book. Read through the rest of the Moore books as well
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 | Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $4.94 The bulk of this books was basically a story, stepping through a crisis, the things that were done to see a changing event through to the end. In reality, I wasn't a huge fan of this as if you view it as a case study, it is a single case study with limited inputs and thus a bit abstract from reality.
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 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $5.00 Helps with your time management.
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 | First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently by Marcus Buckingham
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $2.39 Understanding and working towards your teams strengths is a good idea, but rounding people out is necessary as well. It's a good first set of steps.
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 | Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices (Collection on Technology and Work) by Leslie A. Perlow
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $0.01 More of a characterization of how some people work, and a small experiment on how to structure that. Not a great read, but not a bad one either given the brevity of the book. If you can find it cheap, otherwise, this should be somewhat lower on your list of priority reads
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