The 100 Best Business Books of All Time puts each book in context so that readers can quickly find solutions to the problems they face, such as how best to spend The First 90 Days in a new job or how to take their company from Good to Great. Many of the choices are surprising—you’ll find reviews of Moneyball and Orbiting the Giant Hairball, but not Jack Welch’s memoir. At the end of each review, Jack and Todd direct readers to other books both inside and outside The 100 Best. And sprinkled throughout are sidebars taking the reader beyond business books, suggesting movies, novels, and even children’s books that offer equally relevant insights. This guide will appeal to anyone, from entry-level to CEO, who wants to cut through the clutter and discover the brilliant books that are truly worth their investment of time and money.
Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph Introduction YOU Flow Getting Things Done The Effective Executive How to Be a Star at Work The Habits of Highly Effective People How to Win Friends and Influence People Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive The Power of Intuition What Should I Do with My Life? Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Chasing Daylight LEADERSHIP On Becoming a Leader The Leadership Moment The Leadership Challenge Leadership Is an Art The Radical Leap Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will Leading Change Questions of Character The Story Factor Never Give In! STRATEGY In Search of Excellence Good to Great The Innovator’s Dilemma Only the Paranoid Survive Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Discovering the Soul of Service Execution Competing for the Future SALES AND MARKETING Influence Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind A New Brand World Selling the Invisible Zag Crossing the Chasm Secrets of Closing the Sale How to Become a Rainmaker Why We Buy The Experience Economy Purple Cow The Tipping Point RULES AND SCOREKEEPING Naked Economics Financial Intelligence The Balanced Scorecard MANAGEMENT The Essential Drucker Out of the Crisis Toyota Production System Reengineering the Corporation The Goal The Great Game of Business First, Break All the Rules Now, Discover Your Strengths The Knowing-Doing Gap The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Six Thinking Hats BIOGRAPHIES Titan My Years with General Motors The HP Way Personal History Moments of Truth Sam Walton: Made in America—My Story Losing My Virginity ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Art of the Start The E-Myth Revisited The Republic of Tea The Partnership Charter Growing a Business Guerrilla Marketing The Monk and the Riddle NARRATIVES McDonald’s American Steel The Force The Smartest Guys in the Room When Genius Failed Moneyball INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY Orbiting the Giant Hairball The Art of Innovation Jump Start Your Business Brain A Whack on the Side of the Head The Creative Habit The Art of Possibility BIG IDEAS The Age of Unreason Out of Control The Rise of the Creative Class Emotional Intelligence Driven To Engineer Is Human The Wisdom of Crowds Made to Stick TAKEAWAYS YOU - The First 90 Days LEADERSHIP STRATEGY - Beyond the Core SALES AND MARKETING RULES AND SCOREKEEPING - What the CEO Wants You to Know MANAGEMENT BIOGRAPHIES - A Business and Its Beliefs ENTREPRENEURSHIP NARRATIVES - The Lexus and the Olive Tree Xerox Zag Zander, Benjamin Zander, Rosamund Stone Zara Ziegler, Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziglar, Zig Zook, Chris Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reproduce the following book jackets and book covers: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, I n c : The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Used by permission of Anchor Books Bantam, a division of Random House, Inc.: Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman; McDonald’s: Behind the Arches by John F Love; a n d Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton and John Huey Bard Press: Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group: On Becoming a Leader by Warren G B e nni s ; Out of Control by Kevin Kelly; Partnership Charter by David Gage; The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida; and The Story Factor by Annette Simmons Used by arrangement with Basic Books All rights reserved Clerisy Press: Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug Hall Courtesy of Clerisy Press Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio Collins Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers: Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will by Noel M Tichy and Stratford Sherman; Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A Moor e; The Effective Executive by Peter F Drucker; The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E Ger ber ; The Essential Drucker by Peter F Drucker; Good to Great by Jim Collins; The HP Way by David Packard; In Search of Excellence by Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman; Influence by Robert B Cialdini; The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M Christensen; Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon; Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy; Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey B Mackay; and Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V Gerstner, Jr Columbia University Press: More Than You Know by Michael J Mauboussin Used with permission of Columbia University Press Crown Business, a division of Random House, Inc.: Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan; How to Be a Star at Work by Robert E Kelley; The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All by Michael Useem; Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson; and What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan Used by permission of Crown Business Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.: The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman; The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham; Leadership is An Art by Max Depree; My Years with General Motors by Alfred Sloan; Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S Grove; The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein; and The Republic of Tea by Mel Ziegler, Bill Rosenzweig, and Patricia Ziegler Used by permission of Doubleday Farrar, Straus, Giroux: The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L Friedman The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard L Berry, copyright © 1999 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; and Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton, copyright © 2001 by Simon & Schuster, Inc Used with the permission of The Free Press All rights reserved Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, Inc.: Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith and A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger von Oech Harper Perennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishers: Flow by David Packard Harvard Business School Publishing: The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy, 1990; Balanced Scorecard by Robert S Kaplan and David P Norton, 1996; Beyond the Core by Chris Zook, 2004; Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C.K Prahalad, 1996; The Experience Economy by B Joseph Pine II and James H Gilmore, 1999; Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight, with John Case, 2006; First 90 Days by Michael Watkins, 2003; The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I Sutton, 2000; Leading Change by John P Kotter, 9 ; The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback, 2001; and Questions of Character by Joseph L Badaracco, Jr., 2006 © Copyright Harvard Business School Publishing All rights reserved Houghton Mifflin Company: Guerilla Marketing, 4th Edition by Jay Conrad Levinson Hyperion: How to Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J Fox, cover copyright © 2000 Hyperion and Never Give In! by Winston S Churchill, cover copyright © 2003 Hyperion Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint: Driven by Paul R Lawrence and Nitin Nohria; The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni; Leadership Challenge by James M Kouzes and Barry Z Posner; and Up the Organization by Robert Townsend Kaplan Publishing, a division of Kaplan, Inc.: The Radical Leap by Steve Farber Published with permission from Kaplan Publishing, a division of Kaplan, Inc Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, Inc.: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell McGraw-Hill, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies: A Business and Its Beliefs by Thomas J Watson, 2003; Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly, 2007; and Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout, 2000 Reproduced with permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies The MIT Press: Out of the Crisis by W Edwards Deming Nigel Parry/Creative Photographers inc.: The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Simon & Schuster Cover image reprinted with the permission of © Nigel Parry/CPi North River Press: The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt and Jeff Cox Oriel Incorporated: The Team Handbook, Third Edition by Peter R Scholtes, Brian L Joiner and Barbara J Streibel, © 2003 Oriel Incorporated All rights reserved Pearson Education: Zag: Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc All rights reserved Penguin Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander; Getting Things Done by David Allen; and A New Brand World by Scott Bedbury and Stephen Fenichell Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Copyright © 1998 by Simon & Schuster, Inc Used with the permission of Pocket Books All rights reserved Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki; Purple Cow by Seth Godin; and The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind Random House, Inc.: The Force by David Dorsey; Lucky or Smart? by Bo Peabody; Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath; Titan by Ron Chernow; What Should I Do With My Life? by Po Bronson; and When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein Used by permission of Random House, Inc Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.: Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr Seuss Used by permission of Random House Children’s Books Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group: Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: The Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, copyright © 2004 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; American Steel by Richard Preston, copyright © 1991 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, copyright © 1999 by Simon & Schuster, Inc ; Growing a Business by Paul Hawken, copyright © 1988 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.; and Why We Buy by Paco Underhill, copyright © 2000 by Simon & Schuster, Inc Used with the permission of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group All rights reserved Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, a division of Informa plc.: Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno Reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Group, LLC Ten Speed Press: Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko Used with permission of Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA www.tenspeed.com Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.: Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.: Personal History by Katharine Graham and To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski Used by permission of Vintage Books W.W Norton & Company, Inc.: Moneyball by Michael Lewis and Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan Used by permission of W W Norton & Company, Inc SIDEBARS “Sidebars” designed by Joy Panos Stauber Images thanks to: The Best Route to an Idea: Sign drawn by Joy Panos Stauber Bestselling Business Books: Cash register drawn by Dylan Schleicher Business Books for All Ages: ©iStockphoto.com/GildedCage Image by Classics: Image Ceglinska by ©iStockphoto.com/Anna Conferences to Attend: Image ©iStockphoto.com/Ingmar Wesemann by The Economist logo used with permission from The Economist magazine For Your Ears Only: Headphones drawn by Dylan Schleicher Found in Fiction: Typewriter drawn by Dylan Schleicher Fresh Perspectives Not in a Bookstore Near You: Heads by Joy Panos Stauber; Gears by ©iStockphoto.com/Julie Felton Getting Your Bearings: Image ©iStockphoto.com/Brandon Laufenberg by Globalization of Manners: ©iStockphoto.com/Scott Dunlap by Image Industry in Depth: Image ©iStockphoto.com/Enrico Fianchini by Jack Covert Selects: Photo by Karen Sherlock from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 8/171995, © 1995 Journal Sentinel Inc., reproduced with permission Leadership in Movies: ©iStockphoto.com/Michael Kurtz Image Readers’ Poll: Sketches by Joy Panos Stauber by Selling on the Silver Screen: ©iStockphoto.com/Michael Kurtz Image Where to: ©iStockphoto.com/Stiv Kahlina by ... true to the promise of our subtitle, ? ?What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You. ” This was an ambitious task in the 500 to 1,000 words we allotted for each book, but the effort... filter to help discern the good and the better from the absolute best The solution to that problem is this book, The 100 Best Business Books of All Time Recommending the best in business books is... these questions of thousands of books, we found ample candidates However, a good idea was not the only consideration in selecting the 100 Best The second factor in choosing these books was the