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The Art Of War, By Sun Tzu, Translated By Samuel B. Griffith (Oxford University Press, 1931)
The Competitive Advantage Of Nations, By Michael E. Porter
Built To Last: Successful Habits Of Visionary Companies, By James C. Collins And Jerry I. Porras (Harpercollins Publishers, Harperbusiness, 1994)
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap… And Others Don’t, By Jim Collins (Harpercollins Publishers, Harperbusiness, 2001).
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms To Fail, By Clayton M. Christensen (Harvard Business School Press, 1997).
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, By Peter F. Drucker (Harper & Row, 1974).
The Patton Mind: The Professional Development Of An Extraordinary Leader, By Roger H. Nye (Avery Publishing Group, 1992).
The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive In The New Business Environment, By Robert S. Kaplan And David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press, 2001).
Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds Of Strategic Management, By Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, And Joseph Lampel (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 1998).
Liar's Poker: Rising Through The Wreckage On Wall Street, By Michael Lewis
One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market, By Peter Lynch With John Rothchild
Rude Awakening: The Rise, Fall, And Struggle For Recovery Of General Motors, By Maryann Keller
The Debt And The Deficit: False Alarms/Real Possibilities, By Robert Heilbroner And Peter Bernstein
The Enigma Of Japanese Power, By Karel Van Wolferen
The New Competitors: How Foreign Investors Are Changing The U.S. Economy, By Douglas P. Woodward And Norman J. Glickman
The New Realities: In Government And Politics/In Economics And Business/In Society And World View, By Peter F. Drucker
West Of Eden: The End Of Innocence At Apple Computer, By Frank Rose
When The Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale From Industrial America, By Max Holland
A Law Unto Itself, By David Burnham
Barbarians At The Gate, By Bryan Burrough And John Helyar
Clausewitz On Strategy: Inspiration And Insight From A Master Strategist, Edited By Tiha Von Ghyczy, Bolko Von Oetinger, And Christopher Bassford John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001)..
Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach To Business Policy For Growth And Expansion, By H. Igor Ansoff (Mcgraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1965; Out Of Print).
Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built To Last Underperform The Market – And How To Successfully Transform Them, By Richard N. Foster And Sarah Kaplan (Random House Inc., Currency, 2001).
Reengineering The Corporation, By Michael Hammer And James Champy
In All His Glory, By Sally Bedell Smith
Scale And Scope, By Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
The Age Of Diminished Expectations, By Paul Krugman
The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery, By Martin Mayer
Wonder Boy, By Daniel Akst
Working For The Japanese, By Joseph J. Fucini And Suzy Fucini
Bear Hunting With The Politburo, By A. Craig Copetas
Bulls In The China Shop, By Randall E. Stross
Den Of Thieves, By James B. Stewart
Going For Broke, By John Rothchild
In Search Of Excess, By Graef S. Crystal
The Great White Lie, By Walt Bogdanich
The Patriarch, By Susan E. Tifft And Alex S. Jones
The Prize, By Daniel Yergin
The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders At Every Level, By Noel M. Tichy With Eli Cohen (Harpercollins Publishers, Harperbusiness, 1997).
Leadership Without Easy Answers, By Ronald A. Heifetz (Harvard University Press, 1994).
On Becoming A Leader, By Warren Bennis (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1989).
Boards At Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage, By Ram Charan (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1998).
Corporate Boards: New Strategies For Adding Value At The Top, By Jay A. Conger, Edward E. Lawler III, And David L. Finegold (John Wiley & Sons Inc., Jossey-Bass, 2001).
The End Of Shareholder Value: Corporations At The Crossroads, By Allan A. Kennedy (Perseus Publishing, 2000).
Pawns Or Potentates: The Reality Of America’s Corporate Boards, By Jay W. Lorsch With Elizabeth Maclver (Harvard Business School Press, 1989).
The Age Of Unreason, By Charles Handy (Harvard Business School Press, 1989)
The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create The Dynamics Of Innovation, By Ikujiro Nonaka And Hirotaka Takeuchi (Oxford University Press, 1995).
Three Blind Mice, By Ken Auletta
Which Side Are You On?, By Thomas Geoghegan
Baseball And Billions, By Andrew Zimbalist
Homestead, By William Serrin
Merchants Of Debt, By George Anders
Money Of The Mind, By James Grant
The New Palgrave Dictionary Of Money And Finance, Edited By Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, And John Eatwell
The Overworked American, By Juliet B. Schor
Thinking For A Living, By Ray Marshall And Marc Tucker
To The End Of Time, By Richard Clurman
Collision, By Maryann Keller
Computer Wars, By Charles H. Ferguson And Charles R. Morris
Murdoch, By William Shawcross
The Outlaw Bank, By Jonathan Beaty And S.C. Gwynne
S&L Hell, By Kathleen Day
The Virtual Community, By Howard Rheingold
The Warburgs, By Ron Chernow
The Wisdom Of Teams, By Jon R. Katzenbach And Douglas K. Smith
The Billion-Dollar Molecule, By Barry Werth
The Choice, By Russell D. Roberts
Comeback, By Paul Ingrassia And Joseph B. White
Competing For The Future, By Gary Hamel And C.K. Prahalad
The Force, By David Dorsey
Master Of The Game, By Connie Bruck
A Piece Of The Action, By Joseph Nocera
Stocks For The Long Run, By Jeremy J. Siegel
Tainted Truth, By Cynthia Crossen
Working Under Different Rules, By Edited By Richard B. Freeman
Blindside : Why Japan Is Still On Track To Overtake The U.S. By The Year 2000 , By Eamonn Fingleton
Buffett : The Making Of An American Capitalist , By Roger Lowenstein
The Confidence Game : How Unelected Central Bankers Are Governing The Changed World Economy , By Steven Solomon
Edison: Inventing The Century, By By Neil Baldwin
Reengineering Management : The Mandate For New Leadership , By By James Champy
Serpent On The Rock, By Kurt Eichenwald
Silicon Snake Oil : Second Thoughts On The Information Highway , By By Clifford Stoll
Startup : A Silicon Valley Adventure, By By Jerry Kaplan
Trust : The Social Virtues And The Creation Of Prosperity , By By Francis Fukuyama
The Winner-Take-All Society : By Robert H. Frank And Philip J. Cook , By Hardy Green
The Good Life And Its Discontents: The American Dream In The Age Of Entitlement, By Robert J. Samuelson (Times Books)
The Weight Of The Yen: How Denial Imperils America's Future And Ruins An Alliance, By R. Taggart Murphy's (Norton)
Hit & Run: How Jon Peters And Peter Guber Took Sony For A Ride In Hollywood, By Kim Masters (Simon & Schuster)
The Car That Could: The Inside Story Of GM's Revolutionary Electric Vehicle , By Michael Shnayerson' (Random House).
The Dilbert Principle, By Scott Adams (Harperbusiness).
The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders At Every Level (Harperbusiness)
Titan: The Life Of John D. Rockefeller Sr., By Ron Chernow (Random House).
I'd Like The World To Buy A Coke: The Life And Leadership Of Roberto Goizueta, By David Greising (Wiley).
The Profit Zone By Adrian J. Slywotzky And David J. Morrison, With Bob Andelman (Times Business)
The Corrosion Of Character: Personal Consequences Of Work In The New Capitalism, Richard Sennett (Norton)
Burn Rate: How I Survived The Gold Rush Years On The Internet, By Michael Wolff (Simon & Schuster).
Competing On Internet Time: Lessons From Netscape And Its Battle With Microsoft, By Michael A. Cusumano And David B. Yoffie. (Free Press)
Prosperity: The Coming 20-Year Boom And What It Means To You , By Bob Davis And David Wessel (Times Business),
The Weightless World: Strategies For Managing The Digital Economy, By Diane Coyle (MIT Press).
Jim Collins' Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap...And Others Don't (Harperbusiness).
Jack: Straight From The Gut,, By Jack Welsh (Warner)
Colossus: How The Corporation Changed America , By Jack Beatty (Broadway Books).
Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results With Ordinary People, By Charles A. O’Reilly III And Jeffrey Pfeffer (Harvard Business School Press, 2000).
The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach To Management, By Sumantra Ghoshal And Christopher A. Bartlett (Harpercollins Publishers, Harperbusiness, 1997).
Leadership A To Z: A Guide For The Appropriately Ambitious, By James O’Toole (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1999).
The Leadership Challenge: How To Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done In Organizations, By James M. Kouzes And Barry Z. Posner (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1987).
The Social Life Of Information, By John Seely Brown And Paul Duguid (Harvard Business School Press 2000).
Sources Of Power: How People Make Decisions, By Gary Klein (MIT Press, 1998).
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide To The Network Economy, By Carl Shapiro And Hal R. Varian (Harvard Business School Press, 1999).
Unchained Value: The New Logic Of Digital Business, By Mary J. Cronin (Harvard Business School Press, 2000).
From Worst To First: Behind The Scenes Of Continental’s Remarkable Comeback, By Gordon Bethune With Scott Huler (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998).
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company, By David Packard, Edited By David Kirby With Karen Lewis (Harpercollins Publishers Harperbusiness, 19951).
Moments Of Truth: New Strategies For Today’s Customer-Driven Economy, By Jan Carlzon (Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987).
My Years With General Motors, By Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Edited By John Mcdonald With Catharine Stevens (Macfadden-Bartell Books, 1963).
Plain Talk: Lessons From A Business Maverick, By Ken Iverson With Tom Varian (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997).
Up The Organization: How To Stop The Corporation From Stifling People And Strangling Profits, By Robert Townsend (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1970)
Guns, Germs And Steel: The Fates Of Human Societies, By Jared Diamond (W.W. Norton & Co., 1997).
Inventing The Electronic Century: The Epic Story Of The Consumer Electronics And Computer Industries, By Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 2001).
The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution In American Business, By Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (P.B. Belknap Press, 1977).
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, By Robert L. Heilbroner (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1953).
A Future Perfect: The Challenge And Hidden Promise Of Globalization, By John Micklethwait And Adrian Wooldridge (Crown Business, 2000).