 | The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker
Buy used from: $2.09 Drucker still can surprise us with controversial, provocative thought that shouldn't be missed.
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 | Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $12.77 This is Porter's seminal work - powerful, creative and useful. The way competitive analysis is done.
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 | Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $15.75 More essential Porter.
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 | In Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas Best Run Companies by Jr., Robert H Waterman
Buy used from: $0.01 Peters may be a little too "pop culture" for some business theorists, but he is fun to read; the stories are great and the truth is there.
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 | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Buy used from: $0.01 Focuses on creating a set of inner-values that serve as a platform for our relationships with business associates, family and community.
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 | What They Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes From A Street-Smart Executive by Mark H. McCormack
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 Offers the external "street smarts" techniques that can be very effective if used in conjunction (where applicable) with the Covey book above.
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 | What They Still Don't Teach You At Harvard Business School by Mark H. McCormack
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $0.01 Offers the external "street smarts" techniques that can be very effective if used in conjunction (where applicable) with the Covey book above.
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 | Marketing Management by Philip Kotler
Buy used from: $1.00 It serves as a handy reference or refresher when confronted with a wide range of marketing issues.
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 | Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.06 Among the first books to explore man's ability to cope with the rapid pace of change and the complexities of modern business and life, in general.
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 | Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough
Buy new: $12.20 / Used from: $1.11 The lessons for decision makers in this work are those that we must keep learning over and over.
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 | Data Analysis In Plain English with Microsoft Excel by Harvey J. Brightman
Buy new: $117.95 / Used from: $1.97 Very useful for those of us who have to be quantitative and don't particularly like it.
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 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
Buy used from: $0.01 A cross between Covey's 7 Habits and Jack Kerouac's search for the real America.
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 | The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action by Robert S. Kaplan
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $2.45 If you are looking for a simple way to establish measurements that will actually support an effort to implement strategy, rather than hinder it, this is it.
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 | Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 A reference on successful negotiation is a must.
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 | The Power of Nice: How to Negotiate So Everyone Wins- Especially You!, Revised Edition by Ronald M. Shapiro
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $5.14 Shapiro is the mega-successful Baltimore sports agent/attorney who really practices what he preaches.
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 | Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
Buy used from: $0.01 He knows business and he's worth listening to. Just form your own opinion as to whether Mr. Welsh has been successful on all levels.
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 | One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams, The Rev. (The One Minute Manager) by Ken Blanchard
Buy used from: $0.16 This is a readable, very applicable work on an essential executive role that has implications for all levels of the firm.
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 | The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Buy used from: $0.01 Written like a novel, the reader suffers with the protagonist through his operational problems at the plant, a wife considering divorce and son who doesn't know him.
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