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The best business books ever : the most influential management books you'll never have time to read.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2011.Edition: Rev. and expanded edDescription: ix, 269 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0465022367 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0465026346 (e-book)
  • 9780465022366 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780465026340 (e-book)
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Action Learning / Reg Revans -- Administrative Behavior / Herbert Simon -- The Age of Discontinuity / Peter F. Drucker -- The Age of E-tail / Dirk Schneider -- The Age of Unreason / Charles Handy -- The Art of Japanese Management / Anthony Athos -- The Art of the Long View / Peter Schwartz -- The Art of War / Sun Tzu -- Barbarians at the Gate / John Helyar -- A Behavioral Theory of the Firm / James G. March -- Being Digital / Nicholas Negroponte -- Blown to Bits / Thomas Wurster -- Blur / Christopher Meyer -- The Borderless World / Kenichi Ohmae -- The Brand You 50 / Tom Peters -- Built to Last / Jerry Porras -- A Business and Its Beliefs / Thomas Watson Jr. -- Capital / Karl Marx -- The Caring Economy / Gerry McGovern -- The Change Masters / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- The Changing Culture of a Factory / Elliot Jaques -- The Clickable Corporation / J. Russell Gates -- Clicks and Mortar / Terry Pearce -- Competing for the Future / C. K. Prahalad -- The Competitive Advantage of Nations / Michael Porter -- Competitive Strategy / Michael Porter -- Complexity / M. Mitchell Waldrop -- Co-opetition / Adam M. Brandenburger -- Corporate-level Strategy / Andrew Campbell -- Corporate Strategy / Igor Ansoff -- Digital Capital / Alex Lowy -- Digital Darwinism / Evan I. Schwartz -- Direct from Dell / Michael Dell -- The Discipline of Market Leaders / Fred Wiersema -- Dynamic Administration / Mary Parker Follett -- Emotional Intelligence / Daniel Goleman -- The E-myth Revisited / Michael E. Gerber -- The Entertainment Economy / Michael J. Wolf -- E-shock 2000 / Michael de Kare-Silver -- The Experience Economy / James H. Gilmore -- The Fifth Discipline / Peter Senge -- A Future Perfect / Adrian Wooldridge -- Futurize Your Enterprise / David Siegel -- General and Industrial Management / Henri Fayol -- The General Theory of Employment / John Maynard Keynes -- Getting Things Done / David Allen -- Getting to Yes / William Ury -- The Goal / Jeff Cox -- High Stakes, No Prisoners / Charles H. Ferguson -- How to Win Friends and Influence People / Dale Carnegie -- The HP Way / David Packard -- The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization / Elton Mayo -- The Human Side of Enterprise / Douglas McGregor -- In Search of Excellence / Robert Waterman -- The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture / Manuel Castells -- Information Rules / Hal R. Varian -- Innovation in Marketing / Theodore Levitt -- The Innovator's Dilemma / Clayton M. Christensen -- Intellectual Capital / Thomas Stewart -- Jack: Straight from the Gut / John A. Byrne -- The Knowledge-creating Company / Hirotaka Takeuchi -- Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge / Burt Nanus -- Leadership / Rudolph W. Giuliani -- Leadership / James MacGregor Burns -- Leading Change / John P. Kotter -- Liar's Poker / Michael Lewis -- The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment / Arie de Geus -- The Long Tail / Chris Anderson -- The Machine That Changed the World / Daniel Roos -- Made in Japan / Akio Morita -- Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail / R. Meredith Belbin -- The Managerial Grid / Jane Mouton -- Managing / Harold Geneen -- Managing across Borders / Sumantra Ghoshal -- Managing on the Edge / Richard T. Pascale -- Managing Transitions / William Bridges -- Marketing Management / Kevin Keller -- Megatrends / John Naisbitt -- The Mind of the Strategist / Kenichi Ohmae -- Moments of Truth / Jan Carlzon -- Motion Study: A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman / Frank Gilbreth -- Motivation and Personality / Abraham Maslow -- The Motivation to Work / Barbara Bloch Snyderman -- My Life and Work / Henry Ford -- My Years with General Motors / Alfred P. Sloan Jr. -- Natural Capitalism / L. Hunter Lovins -- The Nature of Managerial Work / Henry Mintzberg -- The New Corporate Cultures / Allan Kennedy -- New Patterns of Management / Rensis Likert -- No Logo / Naomi Klein -- Now, Discover Your Strengths / Donald Clifton -- On Becoming a Leader / Warren Bennis -- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures / Charles Babbage -- On War / Karl von Clausewitz -- Onward Industry / Alan Reiley -- The Organization Man / William Whyte -- Organizational Culture and Leadership / Edgar H. Schein -- Organizational Learning / Donald Schon -- Out of the Crisis / W. Edwards Deming -- Parkinson's Law / C. Northcote Parkinson -- The Peter Principle / Laurence Peter -- Planning for Quality / Joseph M. Juran -- The Practice of Management / Peter F. Drucker -- The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Principles of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill -- Principles of Political Economy and Taxation / David Ricardo -- The Principles of Scientific Management / Frederick Winslow Taylor -- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable / Seth Godin -- Quest for Prosperity / Konosuke Matsushita -- Real Time / Regis McKenna -- Reengineering the Corporation / Michael Hammer -- Relationship Marketing / Regis McKenna -- Riding the Waves of Culture / Charles Hampden-Turner -- The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning / Henry Mintzberg -- Small Is Beautiful / E. F. Schumacher -- Strategy and Structure / Alfred Chandler -- The Theory of Economic Development / Joseph A. Schumpeter -- The Theory of Social and Economic Organization / Max Weber -- Theory Z / William Ouchi -- The Third Wave / Alvin Toffler -- The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell -- Toyota Production System / Taiichi Ohno -- Up the Organization / Robert Townsend -- Valuation / Tom Koller -- The Visionary's Handbook / Jim Taylor -- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Edward R. Tufte -- The Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith -- What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School / Mark H. McCormack -- The Will to Manage / Marvin Bower -- The Wisdom of Crowds / James Surowiecki -- Work This Way / Bruce Tulgan -- The World Is Flat / Thomas Friedman.
Summary: "Every manager could benefit from a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking. The Best Business Books Ever is a uniquely organized guide and an illuminating collection of key ideas from the 130 most influential business books of all time. It places both historical and contemporary works in context and draws fascinating parallels and points of connection.Summary: Now fully revised and more than 30 percent bigger, this one book highlights the information you need to know and why it's important to know it, and does it all in a succinct, time-saving fashion. Business moves faster than ever these days. For the businessperson who has a growing list of tomes that they can never quite seem to get to, The Best Business Books Ever is a must-have."--pub. desc.
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Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Given the urgency and immediacy of so many business problems and challenges, a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking will help managers separate fad from fact and apply the cumulative wisdom of the writers whose ideas have demonstrated profound and lasting impact. From Sun Tzu's timeless Art of War to the inventors of modern management in the 1920s-'40s to the books that have the captured the New Economy Zeitgeist, The Best Business Books Ever illuminates the key ideas and contributions of the 100 books that should form the basis of any manager's, business student's, or entrepreneur's library. The Best Business Books Ever places both historical and contemporary works in context and draws fascinating parallels and points of connection between books from different places and times, all of which have contributed to our collective understanding and practice of the art of management.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Action Learning / Reg Revans -- Administrative Behavior / Herbert Simon -- The Age of Discontinuity / Peter F. Drucker -- The Age of E-tail / Dirk Schneider -- The Age of Unreason / Charles Handy -- The Art of Japanese Management / Anthony Athos -- The Art of the Long View / Peter Schwartz -- The Art of War / Sun Tzu -- Barbarians at the Gate / John Helyar -- A Behavioral Theory of the Firm / James G. March -- Being Digital / Nicholas Negroponte -- Blown to Bits / Thomas Wurster -- Blur / Christopher Meyer -- The Borderless World / Kenichi Ohmae -- The Brand You 50 / Tom Peters -- Built to Last / Jerry Porras -- A Business and Its Beliefs / Thomas Watson Jr. -- Capital / Karl Marx -- The Caring Economy / Gerry McGovern -- The Change Masters / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- The Changing Culture of a Factory / Elliot Jaques -- The Clickable Corporation / J. Russell Gates -- Clicks and Mortar / Terry Pearce -- Competing for the Future / C. K. Prahalad -- The Competitive Advantage of Nations / Michael Porter -- Competitive Strategy / Michael Porter -- Complexity / M. Mitchell Waldrop -- Co-opetition / Adam M. Brandenburger -- Corporate-level Strategy / Andrew Campbell -- Corporate Strategy / Igor Ansoff -- Digital Capital / Alex Lowy -- Digital Darwinism / Evan I. Schwartz -- Direct from Dell / Michael Dell -- The Discipline of Market Leaders / Fred Wiersema -- Dynamic Administration / Mary Parker Follett -- Emotional Intelligence / Daniel Goleman -- The E-myth Revisited / Michael E. Gerber -- The Entertainment Economy / Michael J. Wolf -- E-shock 2000 / Michael de Kare-Silver -- The Experience Economy / James H. Gilmore -- The Fifth Discipline / Peter Senge -- A Future Perfect / Adrian Wooldridge -- Futurize Your Enterprise / David Siegel -- General and Industrial Management / Henri Fayol -- The General Theory of Employment / John Maynard Keynes -- Getting Things Done / David Allen -- Getting to Yes / William Ury -- The Goal / Jeff Cox -- High Stakes, No Prisoners / Charles H. Ferguson -- How to Win Friends and Influence People / Dale Carnegie -- The HP Way / David Packard -- The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization / Elton Mayo -- The Human Side of Enterprise / Douglas McGregor -- In Search of Excellence / Robert Waterman -- The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture / Manuel Castells -- Information Rules / Hal R. Varian -- Innovation in Marketing / Theodore Levitt -- The Innovator's Dilemma / Clayton M. Christensen -- Intellectual Capital / Thomas Stewart -- Jack: Straight from the Gut / John A. Byrne -- The Knowledge-creating Company / Hirotaka Takeuchi -- Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge / Burt Nanus -- Leadership / Rudolph W. Giuliani -- Leadership / James MacGregor Burns -- Leading Change / John P. Kotter -- Liar's Poker / Michael Lewis -- The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment / Arie de Geus -- The Long Tail / Chris Anderson -- The Machine That Changed the World / Daniel Roos -- Made in Japan / Akio Morita -- Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail / R. Meredith Belbin -- The Managerial Grid / Jane Mouton -- Managing / Harold Geneen -- Managing across Borders / Sumantra Ghoshal -- Managing on the Edge / Richard T. Pascale -- Managing Transitions / William Bridges -- Marketing Management / Kevin Keller -- Megatrends / John Naisbitt -- The Mind of the Strategist / Kenichi Ohmae -- Moments of Truth / Jan Carlzon -- Motion Study: A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman / Frank Gilbreth -- Motivation and Personality / Abraham Maslow -- The Motivation to Work / Barbara Bloch Snyderman -- My Life and Work / Henry Ford -- My Years with General Motors / Alfred P. Sloan Jr. -- Natural Capitalism / L. Hunter Lovins -- The Nature of Managerial Work / Henry Mintzberg -- The New Corporate Cultures / Allan Kennedy -- New Patterns of Management / Rensis Likert -- No Logo / Naomi Klein -- Now, Discover Your Strengths / Donald Clifton -- On Becoming a Leader / Warren Bennis -- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures / Charles Babbage -- On War / Karl von Clausewitz -- Onward Industry / Alan Reiley -- The Organization Man / William Whyte -- Organizational Culture and Leadership / Edgar H. Schein -- Organizational Learning / Donald Schon -- Out of the Crisis / W. Edwards Deming -- Parkinson's Law / C. Northcote Parkinson -- The Peter Principle / Laurence Peter -- Planning for Quality / Joseph M. Juran -- The Practice of Management / Peter F. Drucker -- The Prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Principles of Political Economy / John Stuart Mill -- Principles of Political Economy and Taxation / David Ricardo -- The Principles of Scientific Management / Frederick Winslow Taylor -- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable / Seth Godin -- Quest for Prosperity / Konosuke Matsushita -- Real Time / Regis McKenna -- Reengineering the Corporation / Michael Hammer -- Relationship Marketing / Regis McKenna -- Riding the Waves of Culture / Charles Hampden-Turner -- The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning / Henry Mintzberg -- Small Is Beautiful / E. F. Schumacher -- Strategy and Structure / Alfred Chandler -- The Theory of Economic Development / Joseph A. Schumpeter -- The Theory of Social and Economic Organization / Max Weber -- Theory Z / William Ouchi -- The Third Wave / Alvin Toffler -- The Tipping Point / Malcolm Gladwell -- Toyota Production System / Taiichi Ohno -- Up the Organization / Robert Townsend -- Valuation / Tom Koller -- The Visionary's Handbook / Jim Taylor -- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Edward R. Tufte -- The Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith -- What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School / Mark H. McCormack -- The Will to Manage / Marvin Bower -- The Wisdom of Crowds / James Surowiecki -- Work This Way / Bruce Tulgan -- The World Is Flat / Thomas Friedman.

"Every manager could benefit from a solid grounding in the history and evolution of business thinking. The Best Business Books Ever is a uniquely organized guide and an illuminating collection of key ideas from the 130 most influential business books of all time. It places both historical and contemporary works in context and draws fascinating parallels and points of connection.

Now fully revised and more than 30 percent bigger, this one book highlights the information you need to know and why it's important to know it, and does it all in a succinct, time-saving fashion. Business moves faster than ever these days. For the businessperson who has a growing list of tomes that they can never quite seem to get to, The Best Business Books Ever is a must-have."--pub. desc.

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