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1: YOU Improving your life, your person and your strengths.
FLOW The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csi szentmihalyi @Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-free Productivity David Allen @The Effective Executive The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter F. Druc er Robert E. Kelley The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Ste phen R. Covey How to Win Friends and Influence People The first and still the best boo of it s ind to lead you to success Dale Carnegie Swim with the Shar s without being eaten alive Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate your competition Harvey B. Mac ay The Power of Intuition How to use your Gut Feelings to ma e better decisions at wor Gary Klein @What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultim ate Question Po Bronson @Oh, the Places You ll Go! Will you succeed? Yes, you ll indeed! Dr. Seuss Chasing Daylight How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life Eugene O Kelly Category 2: LEADERSHIP Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.
On Becoming A Leader The Leadership Classic Warren Bennis The Leadership Moment Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lesso ns for Us All Michael Useem The Leadership Challenge The Most Trusted Source on Becoming A Better Leader Ja mes M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner Leadership is an Art Revolutionary & Thoughtful Business Leadership Max De Pree The Radical Leap A Personal Lesson In Extreme Leadership Steve Farber Control Your Destiny or Someone else will Hailed as the Unofficial GE Leadershi p Handboo Noel M. Tichy with Stratford Sherman Leading Change An Action Plan from the World s foremost expert on Business Leader ship John P. Kotter Questions of Character Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature Joseph L. Badaracco. Jr. The STORY FACTOR Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Stor ytelling Annette Simmons Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill s Speeches Winston S. Churchill Category wn.
3: STRATEGY Eight Organizational blueprints from which to draft your o
In Search of Excellence Lessons from America s Best-Run Companies Thomas J. Peter s and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Good To Great Why Some Companies Ma e the Leap and Others Don t Jim Collins The Innovator s Dilemma The Revolutionary Boo that Will Change the Way You Do Bu siness Clayton M. Christensen Only The Paranoid Survive How to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company Andrew S. Grove Who Says Elephants Can t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Chang e Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Discovering The Soul Of Service The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Succes s Leonard L. Berry @Execution The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan Competing for the Future Brea through Strategies for seizing control of the Ind ustry and creating mar ets for tomorrow Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad Category 4: SALES & MARKETING Approaches and Pitfalls in the ongoing process of creating customers.
Competing for the Future Brea through Strategies for seizing control of the Ind ustry and creating mar ets for tomorrow Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad INFLUENCE The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini Positioning How to be seen and heard in the overcrowded mar etplace Al Ries & J ac Trout A New Brand World 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Centu ry Scott Bedbury with Stephen Fenichell Selling The Invisible A Field Guide to Modern Mar eting HARRY BECKWITH Zag The No. 1 Strategy of High-performance Brands MARTY NEUMEIER Crossing The Chasm Mar eting and Selling Disruptive Products to mainstream Cust omers GEOFFREY A. MOORE Secrets of Closing the Sale America s No.1 Bible of Persuasion ZIG ZIGLAR How To Become A Rainma er The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clien ts JEFFREY J. FOX Why We Buy The Science of Shopping PACO UNDERHILL The Experience Economy Wor is Theatre & Every Business a Stage B. JOSEPH PINE II & JAMES H. GILMORE Purple Cow Transform Your Business by Being Remar able SETH GODIN The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Ma e a Big Difference MALCOLM GLADWELL Category 5: RULES & SCOREKEEPING The all-important numbers behind the game.
Na ed Economics Undressing the Dismal Science CHARLES WHEELAN Financial Intelligence A Manager s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean KAREN BERMAN and JOE KNIGHT The Balanced Scorecard Translating Strategy into Action ROBERT S. KAPLAN & DAVI D P. NORTON Category
6: MANAGEMENT Guiding and directing the people around you.
The Essential Druc er Essential Writings on Management PETER F. DRUCKER Out Of The Crisis Fourteen Points of Management W. EDWARDS DEMING Toyota Production System Beyond Large-Scale Production TAIICHI OHNO Reengineering the Corporation A Manifesto for Business Revolution MICHAEL HAMME R and JAMES CHAMPY The Goal A Process of Ongoing Improvement ELIYAHU M. GOLDRATT and JEFF COX The Great Game of Business Unloc ing the Power and Profitability of Open-Boo M anagement JACK STACK with BO BURLINGHAM First, Brea All The Rules What the World s Greatest Managers Do Differently MARC US BUCKINGHAM with CURT COFFMAN Now, Discover Your Strengths Develop Your Unique Talents & Strengths and those of the people you manage MARCUS BUCKINGHAM with DONALD O. CLIFTON The Knowing Doing Gap How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action JEFFREY PF EFFER and ROBERT I. SUTTON The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A Leadership Fable PATRICK LENCIONI Six Thin ing Hats Thin ing Is a S ill and can be improved EDWARD DE BONO Category 7: BIOGRAPHIES Seven Lives. Unlimited lessons.
Titan The Life of John D. Roc efeller, Sr. RON CHERNOW My Years with General Motors The Life of John D. Roc efeller, Sr. RON CHERNOW The HP Way How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company DAVID PACKARD Personal History Her Personal Memoir KATHARINE GRAHAM Moments of Truth New Strategies for Today s Customer-Driven Economy JAN CARLZON SAM WALTON Made In America My Story SAM WALTON with JOHN HUEY Losing My Virginity The Autobiography RICHARD BRANSON Category 8: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Seven guides to the passion and practicality neces sary for any new venture
The Art of The Start The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything GUY KAWASAKI The E-myth Revisited Why Most Small Businesses Don t Wor and What to Do About it MICHAEL E. GERBER The Republic of Tea The Story of the Creation of a Business, as told through th e Personal Letters of the Founders MEL ZIEGLER, PARTICIA ZIEGLER with BILL ROSEN ZWEIG The Partnership Charter How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnersh ip DAVID GAGE Growing A Business A boo about growing, growing Business PAUL HAWKEN Guerrilla Mar eting Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Ma ing Big Profits from your Small Business JAY CONRAD LEVINSON The Mon and the Riddle The Art of Creating a Life while Ma ing a Living RANDY KOMISAR with KENT LINEBACK Category 9: NARRATIVES Six Industry tales of both fortune and failure
McDonald s: Behind The Arches The Phenomenal Business Success Story JOHN F. LOVE American Steel The chronicles of the super human effort by the Nucor Corp., Ame rica s ninth-largest steel company. RICHARD PRESTON The Force A gripping story of America s business wars waged in trenches DAVID DOR SEY The Smartest Guys in The Room A gripping story of America s business wars waged i n trenches BETHANY McLEAN and PETER ELKIND When Genius Failed The Rise and Fall of Long-term Capital Management ROGER LOWE NSTEIN Money Ball An ebullient, invigorating account of an unconventional General Mana ger MICHAEL LEWIS Category ew ideas 10: INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY Insight into the process of developing n
Orbiting The Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool s Guide to Surviving with Grace GORD ON MACKENZIE The Art of Innovation Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America s Leading Design F irm TOM KELLEY with JONATHAN LITTMAN Jump Start The Scientific Way To Ma e More Money DOUG HALL A Whac on the Side of the Head! How You Can Be More Creative ROGER VON OECH The Creative Habit Learn it and Use it for Life TWYLA THARP The Art of Possibility Transforming Professional and Personal Life ROSAMUND STO NE ZANDER and BENJAMIN ZANDER
The Age of Unreason Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist CHARLES HANDY Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic Wo rld. KEVIN KELLY The Rise of The Creative Class and how it s transforming wor , leisure, community, and everyday life RICHARD FLORIDA Emotional Intelligence The Groundbrea ing Boo That Redefines What It Means To Be Smart DANIEL GOLEMAN Driven How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices PAUL R. LAWRENCE and NITIN NOHRIA To Engineer Is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design HENRY PETROSKI The Wisdom of Crowds Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective W isdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations JAMES SUROWIECKI Made To Stic Why some Ideas Survive and Others Die CHIP HEATH and DAN HEATH
The First 90 Days Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels MIC
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12: TAKEAWAYS What everyone is loo ing for.
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11: BIG IDEAS The future of business boo s lies here.
HAEL WATKINS Up The Organization How To Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strang ling Profits ROBERT TOWNSEND Beyond The Core Expand Your Mar et without Abandoning Your Roots CHRIS ZOOK Little Red Boo of Selling 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness JEFFREY GITOMER What The CEO Wants You To Know Using Business Acumen To Understand How Your Com pany Really Wor s RAM CHARAN The Team Handboo A comprehensive resource boo to create high performing teams PETER R. SCHOLTES with BRAIN L. JOINER and BARBARA J. STREIBEL A Business and Its Beliefs The Ideas That Helped Build IBM THOMAS J. WATSON Jr. Luc y or Smart? Secrets To An Entrepreneurial Life BO PEABODY The Lexus and The Olive Tree Understanding Globalization THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Thin er Toys A Handboo of Creative-thin ing Techniques MICHAEL MICHALKO More Than You Know Finding Financial Wisdom In Unconventional Places MICHAEL J. MAUBOUSSIN The 100 Best Business Boo s of All Time What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You JACK COVERT and TODD SATTERSTEN For More on The 100 BEST BOOKS Visit www.100bestbiz.com The 100 Best is now ava ilable from boo sellers everywhere! Can't find something? Give Jac & Todd a rin g. Happy to help. 800-236-7323. Authors: JACK COVERT and TODD SATTERSTEN Slides Designed by: Praveen Kumar G. praveen [email protected]
1: YOU Improving your life, your person and your strengths.
FLOW The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csi szentmihalyi @Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-free Productivity David Allen @The Effective Executive The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter F. Druc er Robert E. Kelley The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Ste phen R. Covey How to Win Friends and Influence People The first and still the best boo of it s ind to lead you to success Dale Carnegie Swim with the Shar s without being eaten alive Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate and Outnegotiate your competition Harvey B. Mac ay The Power of Intuition How to use your Gut Feelings to ma e better decisions at wor Gary Klein @What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultim ate Question Po Bronson @Oh, the Places You ll Go! Will you succeed? Yes, you ll indeed! Dr. Seuss Chasing Daylight How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life Eugene O Kelly Category 2: LEADERSHIP Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.
On Becoming A Leader The Leadership Classic Warren Bennis The Leadership Moment Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lesso ns for Us All Michael Useem The Leadership Challenge The Most Trusted Source on Becoming A Better Leader Ja mes M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner Leadership is an Art Revolutionary & Thoughtful Business Leadership Max De Pree The Radical Leap A Personal Lesson In Extreme Leadership Steve Farber Control Your Destiny or Someone else will Hailed as the Unofficial GE Leadershi p Handboo Noel M. Tichy with Stratford Sherman Leading Change An Action Plan from the World s foremost expert on Business Leader ship John P. Kotter Questions of Character Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature Joseph L. Badaracco. Jr. The STORY FACTOR Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion Through the Art of Stor ytelling Annette Simmons Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill s Speeches Winston S. Churchill Category wn.
3: STRATEGY Eight Organizational blueprints from which to draft your o
In Search of Excellence Lessons from America s Best-Run Companies Thomas J. Peter s and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Good To Great Why Some Companies Ma e the Leap and Others Don t Jim Collins The Innovator s Dilemma The Revolutionary Boo that Will Change the Way You Do Bu siness Clayton M. Christensen Only The Paranoid Survive How to exploit the crisis points that challenge every company Andrew S. Grove Who Says Elephants Can t Dance? Leading a Great Enterprise Through Dramatic Chang e Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Discovering The Soul Of Service The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Succes s Leonard L. Berry @Execution The Discipline of Getting Things Done Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan Competing for the Future Brea through Strategies for seizing control of the Ind ustry and creating mar ets for tomorrow Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad Category 4: SALES & MARKETING Approaches and Pitfalls in the ongoing process of creating customers.
Competing for the Future Brea through Strategies for seizing control of the Ind ustry and creating mar ets for tomorrow Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad INFLUENCE The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini Positioning How to be seen and heard in the overcrowded mar etplace Al Ries & J ac Trout A New Brand World 8 Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Centu ry Scott Bedbury with Stephen Fenichell Selling The Invisible A Field Guide to Modern Mar eting HARRY BECKWITH Zag The No. 1 Strategy of High-performance Brands MARTY NEUMEIER Crossing The Chasm Mar eting and Selling Disruptive Products to mainstream Cust omers GEOFFREY A. MOORE Secrets of Closing the Sale America s No.1 Bible of Persuasion ZIG ZIGLAR How To Become A Rainma er The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clien ts JEFFREY J. FOX Why We Buy The Science of Shopping PACO UNDERHILL The Experience Economy Wor is Theatre & Every Business a Stage B. JOSEPH PINE II & JAMES H. GILMORE Purple Cow Transform Your Business by Being Remar able SETH GODIN The Tipping Point How Little Things Can Ma e a Big Difference MALCOLM GLADWELL Category 5: RULES & SCOREKEEPING The all-important numbers behind the game.
Na ed Economics Undressing the Dismal Science CHARLES WHEELAN Financial Intelligence A Manager s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean KAREN BERMAN and JOE KNIGHT The Balanced Scorecard Translating Strategy into Action ROBERT S. KAPLAN & DAVI D P. NORTON Category
6: MANAGEMENT Guiding and directing the people around you.
The Essential Druc er Essential Writings on Management PETER F. DRUCKER Out Of The Crisis Fourteen Points of Management W. EDWARDS DEMING Toyota Production System Beyond Large-Scale Production TAIICHI OHNO Reengineering the Corporation A Manifesto for Business Revolution MICHAEL HAMME R and JAMES CHAMPY The Goal A Process of Ongoing Improvement ELIYAHU M. GOLDRATT and JEFF COX The Great Game of Business Unloc ing the Power and Profitability of Open-Boo M anagement JACK STACK with BO BURLINGHAM First, Brea All The Rules What the World s Greatest Managers Do Differently MARC US BUCKINGHAM with CURT COFFMAN Now, Discover Your Strengths Develop Your Unique Talents & Strengths and those of the people you manage MARCUS BUCKINGHAM with DONALD O. CLIFTON The Knowing Doing Gap How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge Into Action JEFFREY PF EFFER and ROBERT I. SUTTON The Five Dysfunctions of a Team A Leadership Fable PATRICK LENCIONI Six Thin ing Hats Thin ing Is a S ill and can be improved EDWARD DE BONO Category 7: BIOGRAPHIES Seven Lives. Unlimited lessons.
Titan The Life of John D. Roc efeller, Sr. RON CHERNOW My Years with General Motors The Life of John D. Roc efeller, Sr. RON CHERNOW The HP Way How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company DAVID PACKARD Personal History Her Personal Memoir KATHARINE GRAHAM Moments of Truth New Strategies for Today s Customer-Driven Economy JAN CARLZON SAM WALTON Made In America My Story SAM WALTON with JOHN HUEY Losing My Virginity The Autobiography RICHARD BRANSON Category 8: ENTREPRENEURSHIP Seven guides to the passion and practicality neces sary for any new venture
The Art of The Start The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything GUY KAWASAKI The E-myth Revisited Why Most Small Businesses Don t Wor and What to Do About it MICHAEL E. GERBER The Republic of Tea The Story of the Creation of a Business, as told through th e Personal Letters of the Founders MEL ZIEGLER, PARTICIA ZIEGLER with BILL ROSEN ZWEIG The Partnership Charter How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnersh ip DAVID GAGE Growing A Business A boo about growing, growing Business PAUL HAWKEN Guerrilla Mar eting Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Ma ing Big Profits from your Small Business JAY CONRAD LEVINSON The Mon and the Riddle The Art of Creating a Life while Ma ing a Living RANDY KOMISAR with KENT LINEBACK Category 9: NARRATIVES Six Industry tales of both fortune and failure
McDonald s: Behind The Arches The Phenomenal Business Success Story JOHN F. LOVE American Steel The chronicles of the super human effort by the Nucor Corp., Ame rica s ninth-largest steel company. RICHARD PRESTON The Force A gripping story of America s business wars waged in trenches DAVID DOR SEY The Smartest Guys in The Room A gripping story of America s business wars waged i n trenches BETHANY McLEAN and PETER ELKIND When Genius Failed The Rise and Fall of Long-term Capital Management ROGER LOWE NSTEIN Money Ball An ebullient, invigorating account of an unconventional General Mana ger MICHAEL LEWIS Category ew ideas 10: INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY Insight into the process of developing n
Orbiting The Giant Hairball A Corporate Fool s Guide to Surviving with Grace GORD ON MACKENZIE The Art of Innovation Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America s Leading Design F irm TOM KELLEY with JONATHAN LITTMAN Jump Start The Scientific Way To Ma e More Money DOUG HALL A Whac on the Side of the Head! How You Can Be More Creative ROGER VON OECH The Creative Habit Learn it and Use it for Life TWYLA THARP The Art of Possibility Transforming Professional and Personal Life ROSAMUND STO NE ZANDER and BENJAMIN ZANDER
The Age of Unreason Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist CHARLES HANDY Out of Control The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic Wo rld. KEVIN KELLY The Rise of The Creative Class and how it s transforming wor , leisure, community, and everyday life RICHARD FLORIDA Emotional Intelligence The Groundbrea ing Boo That Redefines What It Means To Be Smart DANIEL GOLEMAN Driven How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices PAUL R. LAWRENCE and NITIN NOHRIA To Engineer Is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design HENRY PETROSKI The Wisdom of Crowds Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective W isdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations JAMES SUROWIECKI Made To Stic Why some Ideas Survive and Others Die CHIP HEATH and DAN HEATH
The First 90 Days Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at all Levels MIC
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12: TAKEAWAYS What everyone is loo ing for.
Category
11: BIG IDEAS The future of business boo s lies here.
HAEL WATKINS Up The Organization How To Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strang ling Profits ROBERT TOWNSEND Beyond The Core Expand Your Mar et without Abandoning Your Roots CHRIS ZOOK Little Red Boo of Selling 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness JEFFREY GITOMER What The CEO Wants You To Know Using Business Acumen To Understand How Your Com pany Really Wor s RAM CHARAN The Team Handboo A comprehensive resource boo to create high performing teams PETER R. SCHOLTES with BRAIN L. JOINER and BARBARA J. STREIBEL A Business and Its Beliefs The Ideas That Helped Build IBM THOMAS J. WATSON Jr. Luc y or Smart? Secrets To An Entrepreneurial Life BO PEABODY The Lexus and The Olive Tree Understanding Globalization THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Thin er Toys A Handboo of Creative-thin ing Techniques MICHAEL MICHALKO More Than You Know Finding Financial Wisdom In Unconventional Places MICHAEL J. MAUBOUSSIN The 100 Best Business Boo s of All Time What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help You JACK COVERT and TODD SATTERSTEN For More on The 100 BEST BOOKS Visit www.100bestbiz.com The 100 Best is now ava ilable from boo sellers everywhere! Can't find something? Give Jac & Todd a rin g. Happy to help. 800-236-7323. Authors: JACK COVERT and TODD SATTERSTEN Slides Designed by: Praveen Kumar G. praveen [email protected]
