 | Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $9.23 Based on a detailed study of companies that have beaten the stock market over a hundred or more years, this is a classic that changed a lot of myths about how to build exceptional companies. A great way to understand the importance of mission and principles, as well as leadership.
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 | The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations by Dietrich Dorner
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $2.45 Wonderful, if obscure. Based on detailed studies, this book explains all the apparently 'logical' reasons people make dumb mistakes.
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 | The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.95 A Drucker classic - about how to succeed as an individual manager.
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 | Concept of the Corporation by Peter Drucker
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $17.57 The one essential business book. What a corporation is, and how to build a good and bad one, based on detailed insight of General Motors just after World War Two.
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 | The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials) by Clayton M. Christensen
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.69 This was a very insightful contribution - all about the politics of innovation. Avoid the bad spin offs that followed, as Clay milked 'disruption theory' for all it was worth: this is the only one you need.
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 | Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald Heifetz
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $9.13 Permission to lead for people who think they don't want to be leaders. Another obscure, but excellent book.
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 | Ogilvy on Advertising by David Ogilvy
Buy used from: $3.15 The fundamentals of good ads, by a total master. A little dogmatic, but in a good way...
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 | Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher
Buy used from: $2.24 The only book you need on negotiation - and worth every minute, as we all negotiate every day.
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 | How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.75 A life changing book. Absolutely brilliant.
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 | The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $9.74 Why meetings full of hot air are a waste of time... among other things.
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