 | The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business by Kenichi Ohmae
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.00 The best book on general problem-solving. The author, who was a stellar consultant at McKinsey, summarized the Firm's thought processes in book form. The book has nothing to do with Japan.
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 | The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Gary Blank
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $71.20 A guide to taking a technology product and company from zero to the beginning of rapid growth. The only convincing work of its kind that I've found.
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 | Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Buy used from: $1.94 One negotiates constantly in (and out) of business. A very useful guide on how to approach negotiating rationally.
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 | How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.00 For someone who is not a natural born charmer, this is a godsend. Reduces charm to a set of rules that work.
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 | Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications by Bob Baxley
Buy new: $30.89 / Used from: $0.84 My livelihood depends on producing useful and usable Web applications, even if I am usually managing designers rather than designing myself. This book is a comprehensive, coherent discussion about what is necessary in a great Web application design. There is no book I have refered to more in my professional life.
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 | SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $3.31 Does for sales what "Getting to Yes" does for negotiation- provides a rational framework for approaching sales for those of us who are not born salesmen. While the logical structure is not quite as elegant as "Getting to Yes"- and therefore hard to remember- its basis in scientific studies seems better.
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 | Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.31 A very entertaining book that makes a strong case for targeting technology products that, on the face of it, don't need to be targeted. Take this as useful food-for-though- not gospel.
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 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $7.75 This book really only teaches one thing: When trying to increase production, focus on relieving the bottlenecks, one at a time. The book illustrates this in an entertaining and memorable way.
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