The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You

by Covert, Jack; Sattersten, Todd

• ISBN13: 9781591844464
• ISBN10: 1591844460
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

"This book is a no-brainer for your bookshelf-it's like having a literate Cliff's Notesguide to all those books you know you should have read by now." -Dan Heath, coauthor of Made to Stick More than 11,000 business books are published each year, and hidden somewhere in that overwhelming stack is the solution to your current business problem. For twenty-five years, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten have made it their job to recommend the best business books, and now they've taken on the ultimate challenge-to reread the classics, the bestsellers, and the sleepers and choose the 100 most relevant, most revealing, most useful books in business history. This collection is more than just a list. Covert and Sattersten highlight important takeaways and put each book in context. Their insights can help anyone cut through the clutter and discover the business books that are truly worth their time and money.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
You	p. 5
Improving your life, your person, and your strengths.
Flow	p. 7
Getting Things Done	p. 9
The Effective Executive	p. 12
How to Be a Star at Work	p. 15
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	p. 18
How to Win Friends and Influence People	p. 21
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive	p. 24
The Power of Intuition	p. 27
What Should I Do with My Life?	p. 29
The First 90 Days	p. 32
Oh, the Places You'll Go!	p. 34
Chasing Daylight	p. 38
Sidebars: Jack Covert Selects	p. 11
Globalization of Manners	p. 23
Business Books for Kids of All Ages	p. 36
Leadership	p. 41
Inspiration
Challenge
Courage
Change
On Becoming a Leader	p. 43
Up the Organization	p. 45
The Leadership Moment	p. 47
The Leadership Challenge	p. 51
Leadership Is an Art	p. 54
The Radical Leap	p. 56
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will	p. 58
Leading Change	p. 61
Questions of Character	p. 65
The Story Factor	p. 67
Never Give In!	p. 70
Sidebars: Leadership in Movies	p. 50
The Economist	p. 64
Strategy	p. 73
Nine organizational blueprints from which to draft your own
In Search of Excellence	p. 75
Good to Great	p. 78
The Innovator's Dilemma	p. 82
Only the Paranoid Survive	p. 86
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?	p. 89
Discovering the Soul of Service	p. 92
Execution	p. 95
Competing for the Future	p. 98
Beyond the Core	p. 100
Sidebars: The Best Route to an Idea	p. 81
Learn From Experience	p. 85
Sales and Marketing	p. 103
Approaches and pitfalls in the ongoing process of creating customers
Influence	p. 105
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind	p. 108
A New Brand World	p. 110
Selling the Invisible	p. 114
Zag	p. 117
Crossing the Chasm	p. 120
Secrets of Closing the Sale	p. 123
How to Become a Rainmaker	p. 127
Why We Buy	p. 129
The Experience Economy	p. 132
Purple Cow	p. 136
The Tipping Point	p. 139
Little Red Book of Selling	p. 143
Sidebars: Best-Selling Business Books	p. 113
Selling on the Silver Screen	p. 126
>1000 Words	p. 135
Four {Super} Powerful Writers	p. 142
Rules and Scorekeeping	p. 145
The all-important numbers behind the game
Naked Economics	p. 147
Financial Intelligence	p. 149
The Balanced Scorecard	p. 152
What the CEO Wants You to Know	p. 154
Sidebar: 1982: Waking a Giant (Genre)	p. 151
Management	p. 157
Guiding and directing the people around you
The Essential Drucker	p. 159
Out of the Crisis	p. 163
Toyota Production System	p. 167
Reengineering the Corporation	p. 170
The Goal	p. 173
The Great Game of Business	p. 176
First, Break All the Rules	p. 179
Now, Discover Your Strengths	p. 183
The Knowing-Doing Gap	p. 186
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team	p. 189
Six Thinking Hats	p. 193
The Team Handbook	p. 196
Sidebars: Peter Drucker Said	p. 162
Deming's	p. 14
Points of Management	p. 166
Choose Your Approach	p. 192
Biographies	p. 199
Eight lives
Unlimited lessons
Titan	p. 201
My Years with General Motors	p. 204
The HP Way	p. 209
Personal History	p. 212
Moments of Truth	p. 215
Sam Walton: Made in America-My Story	p. 218
Losing My Virginity	p. 221
A Business and Its Beliefs	p. 224
Sidebar: Classics	p. 207
Entrepreneurship	p. 227
Eight guides to the passion and practicality necessary for any new venture
The Art of the Start	p. 229
The E-Myth Revisited	p. 232
The Republic of Tea	p. 234
The Partnership Charter	p. 237
Growing a Business	p. 240
Guerrilla Marketing	p. 243
The Monk and the Riddle	p. 245
Lucky or Smart	p. 248
Sidebar: Making Choices	p. 242
Narratives	p. 251
Seven industry tales of both fortune and failure
McDonald's	p. 253
American Steel	p. 256
The Force	p. 261
The Smartest Guys in the Room	p. 264
When Genius Failed	p. 268
Moneyball	p. 271
The Lexus and the Olive Tree	p. 274
Sidebars: Found in Fiction	p. 259
Industry in Depth	p. 276
Innovation and Creativity	p. 279
Insight into the process of developing new ideas
Orbiting the Giant Hairball	p. 281
The Art of Innovation	p. 284
Jump Start Your Business Brain	p. 286
A Whack on the Side of the Head	p. 290
The Creative Habit	p. 293
The Art of Possibility	p. 295
Thinkertoys	p. 299
Sidebars: Conferences to Attend	p. 289
Fresh Perspectives Not in a Bookstore Near You	p. 298
Big Ideas	p. 301
The future of business books lies here
The Age of Unreason	p. 303
Out of Control	p. 306
The Rise of the Creative Class	p. 310
Emotional Intelligence	p. 313
Driven	p. 316
To Engineer Is Human	p. 319
The Wisdom of Crowds	p. 322
Made to Stick	p. 326
More Than You Know	p. 329
Sidebars: ChangeThis	p. 309
Your Favorites	p. 325
The Last Word	p. 331
How to Read a {Business} Book	p. 333
Acknowledgments	p. 339
Index	p. 341
Reading Checklist	p. 353
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