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   Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change (312 pages)

   

   By Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony. When a disruptive innovation is launched, it changes the entire industry and every firm operating within in This book argues that it is possible to predict which companies will win and which will lose in a specific situation-;and provides a practical framework for doing so. Most books on ...

    
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   Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant (256 pages)

   By W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne. Winning by _Not_ Competing: A Fresh Approach to StrategySince the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained, profitable growth. They have fought for competitive advantage, battled over market share, and struggled for differentiation. Yet ...

    
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   The Art of Project Management (392 pages)

   

   By Scott Berkun. "'The Art of Project Management' covers it all--from practical methods for making sure work gets done right and on time, to the mindset that can make you a great leader motivating your team to do their best. Reading this was like reading the blueprint for how the best projects are managed at ...

    
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   The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less (288 pages)

   

   By Richard Koch. In 1897, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, in his study of the patterns of wealth and income, observed that the distribution of wealth was predictably unbalanced. He first discovered this pattern in 19th-century England and found it to be the same for every country and time period he studied. Over ...

    
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   Law 101 : Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System (368 pages)

   

   By Jay M. Feinman. Thanks to TV cop shows, most Americans can probably recite the Miranda warnings, but do they know when the warnings do--and do not--apply? Tort reformers cite the $2.7 million in punitive damages a jury awarded a little old lady in Albuquerque when the cup of coffee she had set between her legs ...

    
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   The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More than 50 Business Legends (256 pages)

   

   By . Pearls from The LITTLE BOOK OF BUSINESS WISDOM "The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition."-JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER "Think about the customer, not the competition: Competitors represent your industry's past, as, over the years, collective ...

    
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   Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (480 pages)

   By Charles T. Munger.

    
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   Now, Discover Your Strengths (272 pages)

   

   By Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton. Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's _Now, Discover Your Strengths_ ...

    
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   The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America (256 pages)

   

   By Warren E. Buffett. Buffett, the Bard of Omaha, is a genuine American folk hero, if folk heroes are allowed to build fortunes worth upward of $15 billion. He's great at homespun metaphor, but behind those catchy phrases is a reservoir of financial acumen that's generally considered the best of his generation. For ...

    
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    The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market (336 pages)

    

    By John Zagula, Rich Tong. Just like a sports coach's great playbook, managers who read this book will have the tools, tips, and tricks they need to leapfrog market research, craft a smart strategy, motivate their team, and start scoring major points with customers and against the opposition.

     
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    First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (255 pages)

    

    By Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the fallacies of standard management thinking in _First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently_. In seven chapters, the two consultants for the Gallup Organization debunk some dearly held notions about management, such as ...

     
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    The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money (280 pages)

    

    By Seth Godin. Starting out in 1986 with practically nothing, book packager and cyberentrepreneur Seth Godin has created a new- and old-media business that now employs 40 and generates around $5 million in annual revenue. In _The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business with a Great Idea and ...

     
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    The Essential Drucker : The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (368 pages)

    By Peter F. Drucker. Ever since his first book was published some six decades ago, Peter Drucker has been essential to everyone serious about the "management of an enterprise (and) the self-management of the individual, whether executive or professional, within an enterprise and altogether in our society of managed ...

     
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    The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (400 pages)

    

    By Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox.

     
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    The Design of Everyday Things (272 pages)

    

    By Donald A. Norman. Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans--from physical objects to computer programs to conceptual tools--must read this book, and it is an equally tremendous read for anyone who has to use anything created by another human. It could forever change how you experience and interact with your ...