 | The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions by Scott Adams
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 Not just a recipe for laughter, this guy has got a point darn it!
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 | I'll Show Them Who's Boss: The Six Secrets of Successful Management by Gerry Robinson
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $1.79 Another great management thinker. He had a tv show on the BBC and wrote a book afterwards. The format was him looking into family run businesses and figuring out who should manage it. Highly revealing stuff on leadership.
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 | The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content. by Timothy Ferriss
Buy new: $11.00 / Used from: $13.70 Love this book. The authors energy and wit emerges from the pages. Love his ideas, but in the end you'll have to think up and develop your own.
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 | Dragons' Den: Success from Pitch to Profit by Duncan Bannatyne
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.55 If you liked the series you'll love the book. Giving lots of background info that connects with the tv show but was not on it. If you want to know how -general business- investors think, this book will help a lot.
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 | Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $8.63 Paul Graham's book has inspired me tremendously and made me view software development in a totally new way.
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 | Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (Recipes: a Problem-Solution Ap) by Jessica Livingston
Buy new: $13.56 / Used from: $8.90 If you want to find out how many of the most successful IT companies have been started, this one must be on your list.
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 | Million Dollar Consulting by Alan Weiss
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $13.87 Great book by a great guy. If you ever think of getting into the consulting business, this is the one book I'd recommend reading. The author is totally for real, as a matter of fact I did some of his workshops. Also has a great sense of humour.
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 | The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production by James P. Womack
Buy used from: $0.38 If you're in manufacturing and you have never read anything by Womack, what the $£&* are you doing there?
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 | Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
Buy used from: $10.45 Nice introduction into hwo to use the wisdom/energy/time/etc of a lot of people through the internet.
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 | The Way of the Dog: The Art of Making Success Inevitable by Geoff Burch
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $1.75 Did not buy this book (yet) myself, but I greatly admire Geoff Burch. Again, this guy had a BBC tv show. It is called 'All over the shop' and it features retailers in need being advised by Geoff. One of the great grey masters.
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $14.98 One of the best eyeopeners I have read on the subject of communication recently. If you want to sell a movie idea like the sci-fi thriller Alien, keep it short, sweet and seductive: 'Jaws on a spaceship'.
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 | What's the Big Idea?: How to Win with Outrageous Ideas (That Sell!) by George Lois
Buy used from: $1.04 One of the best books ever written about advertising. By one of the best advertising men, period.
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 | Words that Sell, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Thesaurus to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas by Richard Bayan
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $9.90 Pretty specific material meant for copy writing. But if you ever do some writing and you need the right adjective, don't try to think it up, look it up.
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 | Process Consultation: Its Role in Organization Development, Volume 1 (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series) (2nd Edition) by Edgar H. Schein
Buy new: $53.50 / Used from: $4.54 The first business book I fell in love with. Again about consulting.
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 | Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting by Lewis Pinault
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $3.19 Nice warning never to go into consulting. Describes consulting (with larger corporations) as it is; a commodity where university graduates form the cannon fudder for a neverending dance between the brand name consultancies and the -insecure- managers that hire them.
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