Thursday, August 11, 2011

The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books

There's never a shortage of new books about how to be more effective in business. Most of them are forgettable, but here are 25 that changed the way we think about management — from the iconic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" to groundbreaking tomes like "Guerilla Marketing" and quick reads like the "The One Minute Manager".

Full List
BUSINESS GUIDES
The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter
Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber
The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge
First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins
Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson
How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), by Dale Carnegie
The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor
The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen
Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter
On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis
Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming
My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey
The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh
Toyota Production System (1988), by Taiichi Ohno
Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson
Full List - The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books - TIME

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