The 100 Best Business Books of All Time!?

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

Well I saw this book on a couple of other blogs that I read which sparked my interest that it might have some substance. Looking down the list I recognize several books and I have even read a few of them. I am hoping that this book won't be a let down. At the very least it will turn me on to some different books to read that I otherwise would have never thought of reading.


BOOKS IN THE 100 BEST...

Red-I have read it.
Green- I have heard of it.

1. Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
2. Getting Things Done by David Allen
3. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
4. How to Be a Star at Work by Robert E. Kelley
5. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
6. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
7. Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey B. Mackay
8. The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein
9. What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson
10. Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss/Theodore Geisel
11. Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kell
12. On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
13. The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem
14. The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
15. Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree
16. The Radical Leap by Steve Farber
17. Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Tichy and Sherman
18. Leading Change by John P. Kotter
19. Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
20. The Story Factor by Annette Simmons
21. Never Give In! Speeches by Winston Churchill
22. In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
23. Good to Great by Jim Collins
24. The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
25. Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
26. Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
27. Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard Berry
28. Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
29. Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad
30. Influence by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
31. Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
32. A New Brand World by Scott Bedbury with Stephen Fenichell
33. Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
34. Zag by Marty Neumeier
35. Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
36. Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
37. How to Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J. Fox
38. Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
39. The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore
40. Purple Cow by Seth Godin
41. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
42. Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
43. Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
44. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
45. The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
46. Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
47. Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno
48. Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy
49. The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
50. The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
51. First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
52. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald CliftonThe
53. Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
54. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
55. Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
56. Titan by Ron Chernow
57. My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
58. The HP Way by David Packard
59. Personal History by Katharine Graham
60. Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon
61. Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey
62. Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson
63. The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
64. The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
65. The Republic of Tea by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler, and Bill Rosenzweig
66. The Partnership Charter by David Gage
67. Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
68. Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
69. The Monk and the Riddle Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback
70. McDonald’s: Behind the Arches by John F. Love
71. American Steel by Richard Preston
72. The Force by David Dorsey
73. The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
74. When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
75. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
76. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
77. The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
78. Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug Hall
79. A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger Von Oech
80. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
81. The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
82. The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
83. Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
84. The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
85. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
86. Driven by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
87. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski
88. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
89. Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
90. The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
91. Up the Organization by Robert Townsend
92. Beyond the Core by Chris Zook
93. Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
94. What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
95. The Team Handbook by Peter Scholtes, Brian Joiner, and Barbara Streibel
96. A Business and Its Belief by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
97. Lucky or Smart? by Bo Peabody
98. The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
99. Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
100. More Than You Know by Michael J. Mauboussin

In a comment below list any of these books you have read and tell what you think about them.