 | In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.96 The business performance book that started it all (back in 1982). Still worth reading, if for no other reason than to see how many of the profiled "excellent" companies have fallen off their pedestal (or even disappeared).
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 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business Essentials) by Jim Collins
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $1.44 A foundation book that every leader should read.
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $8.99 In essence, this is the prequel to "Built to Last." Another foundation book.
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 | Beat the Odds: Avoid Corporate Death and Build a Resilient Enterprise by Robert A. Rudzki
Buy new: $16.15 / Used from: $5.02 Takes the first three books a step further -- and suggests why so many of the companies highlighted in the other books have failed, and how to avoid that outcome.
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 | Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $3.96 A book on one topic: the importance of execution. A little wordy for one subject, but a good read.
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 | The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition by James M. Kouzes
Buy new: $16.52 / Used from: $2.17 The classic on leadership: what it is, and what it isn't.
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