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The Success Principles™: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer
One of the coauthors of the incredibly successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series provides principles and strategies to meet a wide variety of goals.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t
Jim Collins
This best-selling book distills research on thousands of companies down to eleven that did the right things to become great. It provides insight into how the heads of these companies motivated people to drive organizational success.
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello
Widely regarded as the greatest management thinker of modern times, Drucker here offers penetrating and practical wisdom with his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity.
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker
Drucker shows how to “get the right things done,” demonstrating the distinctive skill of the executive and offering fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.
The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management
Peter F. Drucker
A compilation of Drucker’s key principles.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Peter F. Drucker
The business bible for presenting innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline.
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
Peter F. Drucker
Drucker explains how businesses can reinvent themselves to retain relevance in our modern society.
Managing for Results
Peter F. Drucker
Drucker shows how to see beyond conventional outlooks and open up new initiatives that help grow your business and make it more profitable.
The Practice of Management
Peter F. Drucker
The first book to depict management as a distinct function, this classic Drucker work is the fundamental book for understanding this.
Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines
David H. Freedman
Freedman examines the organization and culture of the United States Marine Corps and relates how business enterprises could benefit from such Marine values as sacrifice, perseverance, integrity, commitment, and loyalty.
The E-Myth Manager: Why Most Managers Aren’t Effective and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Drawing on lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium-sized, and very large organizations, Gerber reveals why management doesn’t work—and what to do about it.
Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating, and Growing Your Small Business in Any Economy!
Steve Gottry
This book tells you how to succeed in every phase of the small business life-cycle—from starting to operating, growing, and even closing down a business. Gottry offers practical applications in the real world of small business.
It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business
Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton
This is an instructive text on how to create strategic planning and creativity to speed your business past the competition.
What Really Works: The 4+2 Formula for Sustained Business Success
William Joyce, Nitin Nohria, and Bruce Roberson
Based on a groundbreaking 5-year study, analyzing data on 200 management practices gathered over a 10-year period, What Really Works reveals the effectiveness of practices that truly matter.
The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization
Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith
Katzenbach and Smith reveal what is the most important element in team success, who excels at team leadership, and why companywide change depends on teams.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni
Beginning with a real-life scenario, this insightful book reveals how a CEO came to a company and built trust by combating five specific team dysfunctions: absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability,