Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

Jeffrey E. Garten · 320 pages

Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

Patty McCord · 228 pages

Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term

David Cote · 292 pages

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

Dave Logan · 320 pages

Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm

Verne Harnish · 176 pages

Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies

Lawrence M. Miller · 240 pages

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 355 pages

"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor even is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book about visionary companies." So write James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras in this groundbreaking book

Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

Ricardo Semler · 333 pages

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz · 289 pages

Principles

Ray Dalio · 592 pages

Bridgewater Associates founder, Ray Dalio, offers a five-step process to getting what you want out of life, which involves systemizing everything to run like a machine — which can then be fine-tuned.

How Google Works

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg · 303 pages

HBR At 100: The Most Influential and Innovative Articles from Harvard Business Review's First Century

Harvard Business Review · 400 pages

Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits

Robert C. Townsend, Warren G. Bennis · 202 pages

Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend's bestseller first among eighty books that "every manager must read."

Only the Paranoid Survive

Andrew S. Grove · 224 pages

From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental's Remarkable Comeback

Gordon Bethune · 304 pages

Sam Walton: Made In America

Sam Walton, John Huey · 272 pages

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achie

Leading Change

John P. Kotter · 208 pages

From the ill-fated dot-com bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and, ultimately, recession -- we've learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the exception. It's the rule. The author's eight-step process for managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations across the globe. By outlining the process organizations have u

Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm

Eric G. Flamholtz · 472 pages

The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization

Peter M. Senge · 464 pages

An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building "learning organizations"--Corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Arch

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results

George B. Bradt, Jayme A Check, Jorge E Predaza

The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan, and the included downloadable forms, has proven itself to be a valuable resource for new leaders in any organization. This revision includes 40% new material and updates -- including new and updated downloadable forms -- with new chapters on: A new chapter on POSITIONING yourself for a leadership role A new chapter on what to do AFTER THE FIRST 100 DAYS

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell, Tantum Collins, David Silverman · 297 pages

As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resources and technology, Al Qaeda was outmaneuvering America's most elite warriors. McChrystal came to realize that today's faster, more interdependent world had overwhelmed the

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels

Michael D. Watkins · 278 pages

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle · 240 pages

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable

Patrick Lencioni · 134 pages