 | Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $9.90 The book that all other strategy books try to emulate. I still use most of these models as tools in my work.
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 | Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $18.72 Not as remarkable as the first but a worthy read as well.
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 | Profit From the Core : Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence by Chris Zook
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $0.01 Book explains a core adjacency model and diagrams. Solid fundementals in the book.
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 | Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $0.01 When you sell services, you are selling an invisible product. A good book to reinforce that issue.
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 | Go To Market Strategy: Advanced Techniques and Tools for Selling More Products to More Customers More Profitably by Lawrence Friedman
Buy new: $30.33 / Used from: $17.43 Channel Strategy book.
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 | The Portable MBA in Strategy (Portable Mba Series)
Buy new: $41.97 / Used from: $24.98 A text book.
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 | The Ten-Day MBA 3rd Ed.: A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools by Steven A. Silbiger
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.29 Summary of a text book, fast and covers all the major points.
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 | Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And How to Successfully Transform Them by Richard Foster
Buy used from: $1.59 A scare you book if you work for a large company. I read these types of books periodically to keep me on my toes.
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 | Concurrent Marketing: Integrating Product, Sales, and Service by Frank V. Cespedes
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.65 A good marketing book.
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 | The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment by Robert S. Kaplan
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $2.97 |
 | The New Portable MBA by Eliza G. C. Collins
Buy used from: $0.01 Text book, albiet a good one.
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 | Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $0.78 |
 | Extraordinary Guarantees : A New Way to Build Quality Throughout Your Company & Ensure Satisfaction for Your Customers by Christopher W. L. Hart
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | How Customers Think: Essential Insights into the Mind of the Market by Gerald Zaltman
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $3.95 |
 | Living on the Fault Line, Revised Edition: Managing for Shareholder Value in Any Economy by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $0.38 These next three books could really fit in the Kondratiev booklist as they perfectly describe the mechanics to the run up into the inflection point.
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 | Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets (Collins Business Essentials) by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.85 See above.
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 | Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.18 See above.
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