 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: $17.54 / Used from: $2.99 Classic that provides frameworks that you will use the rest of your career.
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 | Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders
How to create and maintain personal brand as well as a few miscellaneous tips on how to improve your personal learning plan. Great read in simple English that will have a big impact on your career.
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 | Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth by David G. Thomson
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $0.37 This is a nice partner to Good to Great. It provides the 7 essential elements that companies that reached $1B in revenue all have in common. If you plan on building more than a mom and pop company, read this.
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 | StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths by Tom Rath
Buy new: $11.50 / Used from: $4.94 Great tool for a quick self assessment of your strengths. A classic follow up to Now Discover Your Strengths.
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 | Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.86 Learn from the great Jack Welch how he created value at GE for 30 years. You will definitely take ideas from this book that you will incorporate into your management style.
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 | The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.95 If you want to know how and why Warren Buffet thinks, this is well worth your time. Learn the way he has created more value than any other investor, ever.
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 | The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $7.89 Michael Watkins provides an easy to implement methodology for you to use to make you much more successful in your next job.
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $11.75 / Used from: $9.35 Gladwell once again stretched my mind to think about the world in non-standard ways and I will use what I learned in the book immediately. I loved Tipping Point and liked Blink, but this is by far his best work.
Malcolm Gladwell's insights about success not being linked to ability are stunning and reassuring. You will not regret the time you spend reading this book!
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 | The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers by Keith R. McFarland
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $0.61 McFarland provides new insights on what it takes to be great. Especially interesting is ensuring that you have "insultants" that are willing to take an opposing view of your (perhaps) stale strategy.
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 | Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
Buy new: $15.13 / Used from: $0.80 I read everything that Ram Charan does, but it you only have time for one of his books, pick this one.
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 | The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market by Michael Treacy
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $0.01 This a quick, thoughtful book that cautions that a company can not be everything to everyone. It must take a position and stand strong on that position.
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 | The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferris
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.57 Tim Ferris will give you a host of ideas on how to become more productive and work less hours. I have outsourced every function I could since reading his book and am at least 75% more productive.
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 | Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time by Keith Ferrazzi
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $11.88 Learn how to network from the master.
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 | Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times by Donald T. Phillips
Buy new: $9.74 / Used from: $3.29 History has proven that Lincoln's leaderships skills are ageless. The book describes that habits and practices that made Lincoln so great.
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 | Employer Secrets: And How To Use Them To Get The Job And Pay You Want! by Phil Baker
Buy used from: $20.67 Phil tells you the inner secrets of the Human Resource department so that you will be able to navigate them to secure the job you want. I can't think of a better time (Feb 2009) to read this book.
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