Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big38 reviews Bo Burlingham Portfolio Hardcover, 2005 Great Case Stuides for Building a Great Company + Defining Good Growth + Hybridizing Non-profit and For-profit Goals Bo Burlingham has done a great job assembling a group of companies that shunned the normally accepted path of explosive growth in order to truly be great at what they do. The variety of companies and industries profiled are helpful for CEOs of any size firm in nearly any vertical to take nuggets ...             Small Business Survival Book: 12 Surefire Ways for Your Business to Survive and Thrive5 reviews Barbara Weltman, Jerry Silberman Wiley, 2006 All New Small Business Leaders Should Read This Book! + A good startup guide + Business Success + Small Business Survival             Make It Glow: How to Build a Company Reputation for Human Goodness, Flawless Execution, and Being ...7 reviews Tom Decotiis Greenleaf Book Group Llc, 2008 Best-in-Class + A view from the inside... + Finally + Make It Glow             The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas6 reviews Elaine Dundon AMACOM, 2002 Relevant, Practical, Good Tool + A good overview of the role of innovation in organizations + This book is needed NOW, more than ever! + Gives the reader real innovation techniques to use + Timely and well written - Dundon reveals real insight             How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner ... and Still Have a Life11 reviews Bill Collier Porchester Press, 2006 A big help! + Read it - read it again and then take action! + How To Succeed as a Small Business Owner...and Still Have a Life + Great, concise help + A must read for any small business owner             The Big Book of Small Business: You Don't Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants12 reviews Tom Gegax, Phil Bolsta Collins, 2007 The first "Cliff Notes" for how to run a business. + Excellent wisdom and inspiration for the entrepreneur + A great "How To" Piece on Owning and Operating a Small Business + A wonderful source + The Big Book of Life             The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth9 reviews Steven S. Little Wiley, 2005 Has a great message for wanta-be entrepreneurs to read and hear. + Excellent business book! + Down to Earth. easy to use information I'm a SCORE counselor and the mission of SCORE is to help wanta-be entrepreneurs and actual small business owners either successfully start a business or maintain/grow an existing business. Typically "clients" come in to the face-to-face counseling sessions with questions, lots of questions. If the ...             Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies146 reviews Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras Collins, 2004 A Classic + Built to Last + A Must Read Together With Good To Great + Stick to your core values! + Built to Last will Last forever             Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths10 reviews Timothy Butler Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Fantastic read and immensely insightful + Well researched and simplified + Unstuck but not yet moving forward + Helpful insights on dealing with a personal crisis + Nudges You To Take Action             The Moral Advantage: How to Succeed in Business by Doing the Right Thing2 reviews William Damon Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004 An inspiration read packed full of practical advice + YOU CAN UNITE BUSINESS SUCCESS WITH PERSONAL VALUES! The Moral Advantage: How To Succeed In Business by Doing the Right Thing is based on interviews with 48 executives who have learned how to combine moral convictions, enlightened self-interest, and business acumen to achieve success. Emphasizing that the cutthroat business world does not require one ...             Instinct: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial DNA to Achieve Your Business Goals23 reviews Thomas L. Harrison, Mary H. Frakes Business Plus, 2005 Science grounds this title from generic prescriptiveness + Ambitious Body of Work + An excellent book to read when working on what next step in life may be. + Fascinating Analysis of the Entrepreneurial Spirit + Understaning yourself from your DNA out!             All the Right Moves: A Guide to Crafting Breakthrough Strategy8 reviews Constantinos C. Markides Harvard Business School Press, 1999 Exploration...Discovery...Conquest + The inventor of WHO-WHAT-HOW strategic positioning + Integrates Strategy, New Products and Organization Learning + A valuable guide to the basics of strategy + A thought provoking guide to What is Strategy?             Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business can become a Leader of the Pack29 reviews Donna Fenn Collins, 2005 Be the Lead Dog! + An insightful and entertaining read, full of very valuable lessons + the best + Energize your Entrepreneurial Spirit + One of the few business books that is more than an expanded magazine article             Creativity Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization8 reviews Jeff Mauzy, Richard A. Harriman Harvard Business School Press, 2003 Cabbages, Kings, and Creativity + From The Innovation Road Map Magazine + Exemplary creativity + 40 years of creativity research delivered in a fun package             The Best Business Books Ever: The 100 Most Influential Business Books You'll Never Have Time to Read3 reviews Editors Of Perseus Publishing, Perseus Publishing Basic Books, 2003 Excellent review of the 100 most influential business books + Delivers as Promised + Needs a better index BBBe provides a two-page summary of the hundred most influential business books. The mix is eclectic, including modern authors, such as Peter Senge and Peter Drucker, as well as historical writers, such as Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz and John Stuart Mill. Probably someone will complain that this ...             Compel: How to Get Others in Your Organization to Think and Act Differently7 reviews Robert D. Gilbreath Wiley, 2007 I like this book! + Simplified influce... maybe too simplified + I Love This Book + Not What I Expected...But Better + Insightful and effective             Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life28 reviews Bo Peabody Random House, 2004 Invaluable Book for Entrepreneurs, Executives and Managers + Short but very informative + Lucky and Short This is one of the best business books I've ever read. It conveys highly insightful, meaningful ideas in a remarkably concise and common-sense way. No droaning on with complex business models or contrived new management theories. Peabody simply shares his views of what makes a successful ...             Maximum Marketing, Minimum Dollars: The Top 50 Ways to Grow Your Small Business10 reviews Kim T. Gordon Kaplan Business, 2006 Excellent Advice + I liked it + A guidebook an entrepreneur should not be without + Maximum Marketing, Minimum Dollars + A Must Have For Sm Business Owners             Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company11 reviews James Collins, William C. Lazier Prentice Hall Press, 1995 A masterpiece!........Planning to become great + Best book ever - I recommend most often + Excellent Book + Fantastisc "Real Business" Book             The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need To Know To Succeed In Your Small Business13 reviews Steven D. Strauss Wiley, 2004 Great Value + Extremely helpful and a must-have for business owners + Liked it a lot A very thorough overview of what you need to know to start and run a small business. I see other posters suggest that the program is overly general. Not my impression at all. Nine CDs here and no filler.