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Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 279 pages
Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the c
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker · 429 pages
Revered management thinker Peter F. Drucker is our trusted guide in this thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't
Verne Harnish · 256 pages
In this guide, Harnish and his co-authors share practical tools and techniques to help entrepreneurs grow an industry -- dominating business without it killing them -- and actually have fun. Many growth company leaders reach a point where they actually dread adding another customer, employee, or location. It feels like they are just adding more weight to an ever-heavier anchor they are dragging th
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan · 283 pages
The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you're running an entire company or in your first management jobLarry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some compani
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling · 352 pages
Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the time it finally disappeared, it's likely no one even noticed. What happened? The "whirlwind" of urgent activity required to keep things running day-to-day devoured all the time and energy you needed to invest
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford · 345 pages
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win is the third book by Gene Kim. The business novel tells the story of an IT manager who has ninety days to rescue an over-budget and late IT initiative, code-named The Phoenix Project.
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown · 288 pages
Do you make those around you smarter? We’ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from the people around them and always needs to be the smartest ones in the room. These are the idea killers, the energy sappers, the diminishers of talent and commitment. On the other side of the spectrum are leaders who
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
James C. Collins · 222 pages
Discusses signs pointing toward the decline of a business, how far the decline can proceed before failure becomes inevitable, and crucial steps companies can take to reverse course.
The 6 Types of Working Genius
Patrick Lencioni · 228 pages
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
Gene Kim · 443 pages
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Patty McCord · 228 pages
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael D. Watkins · 278 pages
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman · 255 pages
First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman is a management book that challenges traditional workplace practices. It reveals how the world’s best managers break conventional rules by focusing on employees’ strengths, setting clear outcomes, and fostering engagement. Instead of trying to fix weaknesses, great managers create environments where individuals thrive based on th
The One Minute Manager
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson · 111 pages
Details a simple, yet effective management system based on three fundamental strategies for earning raises, promotions, and power in business.
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
Putting the One Minute Manager to Work: How to Turn the 3 Secrets into Skills
Kenneth H. Blanchard, Robert Lorber · 111 pages
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Mike Rother · 321 pages
"How any organization in any industry can progress from old-fashioned management by results to a strikingly different and better way.—James P. Womack, Chairman and Founder, Lean Enterprise Institute"One of the stepping stones that will usher in a new era of management thinking.—The Systems ThinkerThis game-changing book puts you behind the curtain at Toyota, providing new insight into the legendar
Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby · 176 pages
Organizational Theory, Design, and Change
Gareth R. Jones · 521 pages
Growing Pains: Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm
Eric G. Flamholtz · 472 pages
Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success
Mary Buffett, David Clark · 148 pages
An in-depth look at Warren Buffett's philosophies for personal and professional management--what they are, how they work, and how you can use them.
Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
Tom Peters · 568 pages
Forty-five prescriptions specify what managers at every level must do if the organizations they lead are to survive in today's chaotic economic environment.