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Recommended Book List: Business
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The Eternally Successful Organization
: The Art of Corporate Wellness
The author of Quality Is Free offers his proven,
step-by-step program for keeping a company fiscally fit, discussing the
histories of great companies who have benefited from his program.
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Philip B. Crosby |
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the Spirit of Business: A Guide to Resolving Fears and Creating Harmony in Your Worklife
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Robert Rosekind |
Lateral Thinking
The seminal book that introduced a
new way of reasoning and decision making. "Dr. de Bono does not claim to
be able to turn us all into Miltons, Da Vincis, and Einsteins. . . . The
Muse never appears to most of us--hence the value of this book."--Times
Educational Supplement
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Edward Debono |
Megatrends 2000
This follow-up to Megatrends is a social forecast for the
1990s, identifying and describing trends already in evidence, as well as
their social, political, cultural, and economic context. |
John Neisbitt |
Moments of Truth
Jan Carlzon, the then president
of Scandinavian Airlines System, tells the extraordinary story of turning
a lacklustre state-run airline into a profitable business that
consistently won passenger preference surveys.
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Jan Carlzon |
No Contest: The Case Against Competition
Updated for the 1990s,
the award-winning book that stands as the definitive critique of
competition. Kohn says that contrary to accepted wisdom, competition is
not basic to "human nature," but actually poisons our relationships,
damages our self-esteem, and holds us back from doing our best. |
Alfie Koh |
In Search of Excellence
A New York Times Bestseller for
over three years To discover the secrets of the art of management, Peters
and Waterman studied more than 43 successful American companies. The
companies specialized in a number of areas: consumer goods, high
technology, and services. What he discovered was that regardless of how
different each company was, they shared eight basic principles of
management that anyone can use on their way to success. |
Thomas J. Peters & Robert II |
Positioning: The Battle for Your
Mind
Positioning, a concept
developed by the authors, has changed the way people advertise. The
reason? It's the first concept to deal with the problems of communicating
in an overcommunicated society. |
Al Ries &
Jack Trout |
Strategy of the Dolphin
Your dolphin personality --
flexible, responsive, accepting -- represents precisely the attitude that
successful managers must adopt. In Strategy of the Dolphin, the authors,
innovative business experts, demonstrate that everyone will need to be a
dolphin to survive the changes the future will bring.
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Dudley Lynch & Paul Kor |
Superlearning
A
compilation of fast, fun, and innovative learning techniques enable one to
master any skill or subject--from computers to athletics to conversational
French--in a fraction of traditional learning time, forever changing the
way one thinks about learning. |
Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder |
Tactics - the Art and Science of
Success
De Bono intereviewed 50
successful persons across the world, in different areas of human endeavor
(sports, business, arts...). Basically this book is a compilation of those
interviews -- but, oh, what a compilation! de Bono weaves in and out of
the interviews, adding his insights, isolating strands of thought, and
putting them together. The result is rewarding, refreshing and
thought-provoking. |
Edward Debono |
The Aquarian Conspiracy
Originally published in 1980,
this tome is a celebration of new ways of thinking about vocation,
spirituality, and society in general. |
Marilyn Ferguson |
The Courage to Create
In eloquent but inordinately
accessible language May surveys the entire concept of Creativity with
terse, well selected passages from Plato and the ancients to Cezanne to
Tillich and Kierkegard and Thomas Wolfe. This is not a "How To" book or
self-help rapid- read to solve superficial problems. This little book,
when read slowly and thoughtfully, guides us through concepts that allow
us to regain a state of positive thinking in a time when it is far more
popular to dwell on our day to day foibles and transient
misjudgements.
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Rolo May |
| The Double Win/ Success is a Two Way Street
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Denis Waitley |
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The Evolution of
Cooperation
The much-discussed book
that explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking
egoists--whether superpowers, businesses, or individuals--when there is no
central authority to police their actions. |
Robert Axelrod |
The Gospel According to the Harvard Business
School
This is the MBA
school version of "One L". Peter Cohen takes you through his two years at
the Harvard B School in the early 1970s and he does an excellent job of
describing the backbreaking work and the ethos of graduate business
education. |
Peter Cohen |
The Greatest Salesman in the
World
First published in 1968, Og
Mandino's classic remains an invaluable guide to a philosophy of
salesmanship. Mandino's clear, simple writing style supports his purpose:
to make the principles of sales known to a wide audience. |
Og Mandino |
The One Minute Manager
The One-Minute Manager, adapted from
Blanchard's classic book which sold more than a million copies, is a
parable about a young man in search of world-class management skills. The
authors' message is so simple it's brilliant: a "One-Minute Manager"
achieves positive results with a minimum of time.
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Kenneth Blanchard & Spencer Johnson |
The One Minute Salesperson
The book is designed to give the concept of "sales" a simple
perspective. Big time sales folks would have you believe that there is a
sense of mystery associated with sales, or that it is somehow magic. This
book brings the entire concept down to simple levels, and points out how
much of everyday life for ALL OF US... is sales. Whether one sells
products, organizations, or sells oneself, it's ALL sales.
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Spencer Johnson & Larry Wilson |
The One Minute Teacher
This invaluable book shows how
teachers, despite the many difficulties they face in today's school
systems, can make an important contributionto their students' lives and
educations.
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Spencer Johnson & Constance Johnson |
The Popcorn Report
Faith Popcorn's (slightly unusual)
name is synonymous with consumer trends. The woman who spotted and named
the "cocooning" movement advises clients from Campbell Soup to American
Express to IBM on consumer attitudes.
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Faith Popcorn |
The Third Wave
This book attempts to explain the both the nature and
the process of the technological revolution that has transformed the
world's social and economic systems. To quote Newt Gingrich, US Speaker of
the House of Representatives, "Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the
key to viewing current disarray within the positive framework of a
dynamic, exciting future."
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Alvon Toffler |
Unlimited Power
Anthony Robbins calls it the new science of personal
achievement. You'll call it the best thing that ever happened to you. If
you have ever dreamed of a better life, Unlimited Power will show
you how to achieve the extraordinary quality of life you desire and
deserve, and how to master your personal and professional life.
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Anthony Robbins |
Use Both Sides of Your Brain
Using the latest research on the workings
of the human brain, Buzan provides step-by-step exercises for discovering
the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left
side more effectively.
| Tony Buzan |
What They Don't Teach You at the Harvard
Business School
Mark McCormack
is the founder of International Management Group, a multimillion-dollar,
worldwide corporation that is a consultant to fifty Fortune 500 companies,
a major producer of television programming and credited as the single most
important influence in turning sports into big business. Listen to
McCormack as he tells you how to -- read people -- create the right first
impression -- take the leading edge -run and attend meetings -- the
secrets of successful selling and moving up within the
organization. |
Mark H. McCormack |
What They Still Don't Teach
You at the Harvard Business School
A straight-talking must-read of
powerful strategies for every executive headed for the top. Written in the
same no-nonsense, hard-hitting manner that McCormack brings to his own
fast-paced business and management style, this is mandatory reading for
executives on every rung of the corporate ladder. |
Mark H. McCormack |
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James Womack |
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Guy
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