First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently258 reviews Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman Simon & Schuster, 1999 More Profound than its Title Suggests + Best book ever about leadership! + First Break All The Rules + Who you work for is more important than which company you work for             Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't697 reviews Jim Collins Collins Business, 2001 GREAT together + Good to Great -- the "fluffless" road to greatness + My Personal Number 1 Management Book + It was Great             The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference930 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2002 A year later and I'm still marveling over this book! + Interesting stories, not that useful + Fundamental Reading + Gladwell Points Out Some Very Insightful Tips! + powerful concept behind this book             The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels76 reviews Michael Watkins Harvard Business School Press, 2003 Great Primer for Taking On a Management Job + Good Overview and Framework + Indispensable reference book + Good for CEO or first time supervisor             Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions139 reviews Dan Ariely HarperCollins, 2008 Great reading, entertaining, and very rational + a chance to understand hidden dynamics + Great Behavioral Econ Book + Love The Studies so-so on the Social Commentary + No economist can afford to miss this             Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In148 reviews Roger Fisher, William L. Ury Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 One of the best books ever written on negotiation + Getting To Yes - An Education In Negotiating Effectively + A Book Needed by Every Manager in Business + Good book to gain knowledge on doing negotiation + Good introduction on negotiation             Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking948 reviews Malcolm Gladwell Back Bay Books, 2007 Think too long and you'll miss it ... + Great Book for the thinking person + The decisions you make in the blink of an eye + Expanded Thinking + An Excellent Management Guide!             The Wisdom of Crowds157 reviews James Surowiecki Anchor, 2005 Excellent Primer + Never judge a book by its cover! + Groups of People are Smart! + The Wisdom of The Wisdom of Crowds             Jack: Straight from the Gut255 reviews Jack Welch, John A. Byrne Business Plus, 2003 Straight from the guts + Corporate growth strategies + Straight From The Gut And Straight To The Point + A Passion for Excellence & Bringing Out the Best in People             Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant14 reviews W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne Your Coach Digital, 2006 Excellent work, well narrated + Great ideas, poorly explained, boring to read + A Blinding Flash of the Obvious This a great book for anyone in management at any level in corporate America or Europe. Very well thought out, and well explained techniques for any business. Narration is very good for this reading, although, reading the chapter titles, is a bit of overkill....             Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done228 reviews Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ... Crown Business, 2002 Management Take Notice + developing strategies that work + Get it done = What + How = Execution + The Discipline - Not the Art + Outstanding             Inside the Tornado: Strategies for Developing, Leveraging, and Surviving Hypergrowth Markets (Collins ...37 reviews Geoffrey A. Moore Collins Business, 2004 WOW! + Excellent book for the technology market + One of the best business books + An AWESOME thought-provoker on high-tech strategy             Crossing the Chasm94 reviews Geoffrey A. Moore Collins Business, 2002 How companies "grow up" + Surprisingly Real + Crossing the Chasm Having already read the sequel, Inside the Tornado, I wondered whether this book had essentially been summarized in that one. While the basic premise of the technology adoption lifecycle is common to both books, this book, as the name implies, gives much more focus and detail to the stage of ...             Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die208 reviews Chip Heath, Dan Heath Random House, 2007 Duct Tape and All... + Best Read for Teachers + In order to be memorable, you must use SUCCES + A superb book for teachers and school leaders + Gotta Stick with it             The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More179 reviews Chris Anderson Hyperion, 2006 Scintilating, brilliant. The new age explained + The Long Tail - Economics of Abundance + The Long Tail by Chris Anderson + The Long Book from a Short Article             The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth50 reviews Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor Harvard Business School Press, 2003 the real thing + Iwant answers, not problems? + Disruptive Innovations Key to Spicing Up Competition + Motivation assymetries + The Purpose of Your Product             Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas47 reviews Seth Godin Portfolio Hardcover, 2006 Short and sweet nuggets of inspiration + wow thats a lot of info I love the "short and sweet" format - this is the perfect opportunity to browse someone else's brain for ideas! I read this over about 6 months, picking it up and reading one or two "rants" at a time. I found these thought-provoking, with sufficient detail for me to know what he was going on ...             The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...158 reviews Clayton M. Christensen Collins Business, 2003 Disrupt your competitors, not your customers! + every product manager must read this + No Dilemma Here With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's Dilemma illustrates how ...             Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time207 reviews Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz Doubleday Business, 2005 I LOVE that book! + The Art of the Schmooze + A good read and a good idea book for networking This is an amazing book that has done many things for me with the two most important: given me lots of ideas about marketing my business and validating personal ideas and business practices that I had. I also very much enjoyed reading this book: it's full of examples of people that I have hear ...             Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In148 reviews Roger Fisher, William L. Ury Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991 One of the best books ever written on negotiation + Getting To Yes - An Education In Negotiating Effectively + A Book Needed by Every Manager in Business + Good book to gain knowledge on doing negotiation + Good introduction on negotiation