Business Books

Books I have seen or want to read (if time permits :))


HBR Guide To:

1. Project Management
2. Better Business Writing
3. Finance Basics for Managers
4. Getting The Right Work Done
5. Managing Up and Across
6. Persuasive Presentations

HBR On:

1. Advancing Your Career
2. Smart Decisions
3. Communicating Effectively
4. Finding and Keeping Best People
5. Winning Negotiations
6. Managing People
7. Developing High-Potential Leaders
8. Managing Your Career in Tough Times
9. Motivating People
10. Talent Management
11. Managing Difficult People
12. What Makes A Leader
13. Managing Through a Downturn
14. Effective Communication

HBR's 10 Must Reads:

1. Managing Yourself
2. Managing People
3. Leadership
4. Strategy
5. Change

Harvard Business Essential:

1. Manager's Toolkit
2. Negotiation
3. Coaching and Mentoring
4. Creating Teams with an Edge
5. Performance Management

Harvard Press:

1. First 90 Days - Michael Watkins 
2. Becoming A Manager - Linda A Hill
3. Being The Boss - Linda A Hill
4. What To Ask The Person In The Mirror - Kaplan

Peter Drucker:

1. Managing For Results
2. The Effective Exective
3. The Practice of Management
4. Technology, Management and Society
5. The Essential Drucker
6. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
7. Managing in Turbulent Times
8. Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Michael E Porter:

1. Competitive Strategy
2. Competitive Advantage
3. On Competition

Ram Charan & Co

1. The Talent Masters - Bill Conaty, Ram Charan
2. Global Tilt - Ram Charan
3. Execution - Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy
4. Leadership Pipeline - Ram Charan
5. Know-How - Ram Charan

1. The Leadership Engine - Noel M Tichy, Eli Cohen

1. The Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton M Christensen
2. The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid -  C.K.Prahalad
3. Systems Thinking - Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Daniel Goleman

1. Emotional Intelligence
2. Working with Emotional Intelligence
3. Ecological Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
4. Destructive Emotions - Daniel Goleman

Coveys

1. The 7 Habits of highly Effective People - Stephen R Covey
2. The 8th Habit - Stephen R Covey
3. The Speed of Trust - Stephen M R Covey

Marcus Buckingham & Co

1. The One Thing you need to Know - Marcus Buckingham
2. First Break All the Rules - Marcus Buckingham
3. Strengths Finder - Tom Rath
4. Go Put Your Strengths to Work - Marcus Buckingham

1. What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Marshall Goldsmit
2. Managing Difficult Conversations at Work - Sue Clark, Mel Myers
3. Difficult Conversations - Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen

Bios & Case Studies

1. The HP Way - Dave Packard, Bill Hewlett
2. Build to Last - Jim Collins, Jerry I Porras
3. Good to Great - Jim Collins
4. The Google Story - David A Vise
5. Business @ The Speed of Thought - Bill Gates
6. Direct From Dell - Michael Dell
7. Only The Paranoid Survive - Andrew S Grove
8. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? - Louis V Gerstner, Jr.
9. The Toyota Way - Jeffrey K Liker
10. Toyota Talent - Jeffrey K Liker, David P Meier
11. Freedom Inc. - Brian M Carney, Isaac Getz
12. iCon Steve Jobs - Jeffrey S Young, William L Simon
13. Maverick - Ricardo Semler
14. Employees First, Customers Second - Vineet Nayar
15. Winning - Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

Economics Related

1. Economics
2. False Economy - Alan Beatite
3. When Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
4. Capitalism At Risk - Joseph L Bower, Herman B Leonard, Lynn S Paine
5. The New Digital Age- Eric Shmidt, Jared Cohen
6. Animal Spirits - George A Akerlof, Robert J Shiller
7. Crisis Economics - Nouriel Roubini, Stephen Mihm
8. Extreme Money - Satyajit Das 
9. Breakout Nations - Ruchir Sharma
10. An Age of New Possibilities - Reinhard Mohn
11. Empires of Mind - Denis Waitley
12. Games People Play - Eric Berne
13. Five Roads to The Future - Paul Starobin
14. Small is Beautiful - E F Schumacher

1. The Habit of Winning - Prakash Iyer
2. Excellence - J Pincott
3. In Search Of Excellence - Thomas J Peters, Robert H Waterman Jr.
4. Be Excellent at Anything - Tony Schwartz
5. The Leader's Guide to Storytelling - Stephen Denning
6. Think Better - Tim Hurson
7. Mobilizing Minds - Lowell L Bryan, Claudia I Joyce
8. Getting More - Stuart Diamond
9. What Works - Hamish McRae

1. Crossing The Chasm - Geoffrey A Moore
2. Talent is never enough - John c maxwell
3. Hacking Work - Bill Jensen, Josh Klein
4. The Fifth  Discipline - Peter M Senge
5. The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande

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