Channel Insider's 21 to Read
May 27, 2009
Channel Insider recently posted a slide show of 21 Must Read Books for Business Success. It was compiled by asking "successful solution providers what books have both inspired them and shaped their approach to making their businesses a success. " You can get detailed descriptions of the books by viewing the slide show, but the list itself, with links, below.
Channel Insider recently posted a slide show of 21 Must Read Books for Business Success. It was compiled by asking "successful solution providers what books have both inspired them and shaped their approach to making their businesses a success." You can get detailed descriptions of the books by viewing the slide show, but the list itself, with links, below. If you're interested in knowing which books are also in The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, they are starred.
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies* by Tom Peters & Robert Waterman
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity* by David Allen
- The Power of Process: Unleashing the Source of Competitive Advantage by Kiran K. Garimella
- How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business by Dave Hitz
- Balanced Scorecard Strategy for Dummies by Chuck Hannabarger, Rick Buchman & Peter Economy
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne
- How to Win Friends and Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
- The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
- The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business* by Clayton M. Christensen (They throw in The Innovator's Solution here as well.)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference* by Malcolm Gladwell (They cheat a little here, too, adding Gladwell's subsequent books, Blink and Outliers to this.)
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers* by Geoffrey A. Moore
- The E Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It* by Michael E. Gerber
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change* by Stephen R. Covey
- The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
- Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done* by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan Ram Charan
- The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg & John David Mann
- Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
