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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
Keith R. Mcfarland
Crown Business, 2008
The Good to Great book for small businesses
Breakthrough Companies is a great book that is the "Good to Great" book for small businesses.
It talks about how small businesses became breakthrough companies by taking actions.
I highly recommend this book
Here are the major things Keith talks about in his ...
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The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation
A.G. Lafley, Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2008
Excellent book about customer centricity, segmentation & cultural change
This is the story of Procter & Gamble from 2000 till now enriched with anecdotes from other businesses. It is a report of P&G's transformation into a customer-focused enterprise, driven by customer research and new product development. The book is structured around ...
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Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference - The Revolutionary Old-School Approach
James M. Kilts, John F. Manfredi, ...
Crown Business, 2007
What goes on in a successful CEO's head
Many years ago, Patrick Rivett described his efforts to teach problem solving model building to his students as showing them "what goes on in an analyst's head when he is taken round a soap factory." You can describe Jim Kilts' Doing What Matters as "what goes on in ...
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, ...
Crown Business, 2002
A "Must Read" for Executives
If a business leader were to select one book as a guide to success, this would be my choice. As a former AlliedSignal executive, I have seen these practices applied and reinforced; I have also seen the results that they deliver. The book defines Execution as "...a ...
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What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works
Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2001
Common Sense made into Common Sense.
Often I hear people say "anyone can do business, it's just common sense." So why do we have so many failing companies? Dr. Charan answered so many of the questions of why people screw up in the business world. He combined parts of "common sense business" (profit ...
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
Jeff Howe
Crown Business, 2008
A must read for new media knowledge
Like Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson before him with The Long Tail, Crowdsourcing began with a compelling Wired Magazine article, expanded with a blog, and was a deep enough and important enough topic in the new media age that it needed a book to be fully covered. ...
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
T. Boone Pickens
Crown Business, 2008
The First Billion
The author provides some very important pearls of wisdom on the subject of making big money. First, big deals take time to reach fruition. In addition, decision makers can not get bogged down in "analysis paralysis". At some point, action is required. Leaders need to ...
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Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't
Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2007
As usual solid advice from Ram Charan
Ram Charan has once again showed that doing business is a lot about hard work and less about lofty speeches and buzz words. He teaches the middle manager to think about thier job in the context of the industry they work in. He advises senior managers to have the ...
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The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph Over the Bold and the New
Jeremy J. Siegel
Crown Business, 2005
Excellent Research
The research presented in this book is incredibly useful even if one doesn't agree with Dr. Siegel's recommended strategies.
I'm buying this book for several friends of mine as gifts.
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The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
James C. Hunter
Crown Business, 1998
Outstanding
These principles of Leadership are timeless and outstanding. It should be read and put into practice by everyone. This really is the True Essence of Leadership. I wish I could have read it years ago.
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Get Out of Your Own Way: The 5 Keys to Surpassing Everyone's Expectations
Robert K. Cooper
Crown Business, 2006
Welcome your brain to the 21st century
"...while you are a person of the twenty-first century, and what you want reflects your experiences in today's world, your brain is pretty much the same model your ancestors were using a thousand years ago, and it still wants a lot of what it wanted back then, which ...
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Biography of the Dollar: How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Craig Karmin
Crown Business, 2008
Very interesting read!
I read this during the financial crisis, and it helped me understand why the US economy is in trouble. Very easy to understand complex topics, and was fun to read. Pleasantly surprised that it was such an enjoyable book. Would recommend it to people who want to ...
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Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know
Jim Camp
Crown Business, 2002
Very Insightful
I am a pricing expert with 25+ years experience and even I learned a lot from this book. While I disagree with the author that it is rarely possible to have a win-win negotiation, he is absolutely right that professional purchasers are usually out to take advantage. ...
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How the Wise Decide: The Lessons of 21 Extraordinary Leaders
Aaron Sandoski, Bryn Zeckhauser
Crown Business, 2008
An ideal balance of stories and principles
Sandoski and Zeckhauser try something tricky--distilling general principles from a set of interviews--and pull it off brilliantly. They respect the untidy complexities of the stories that flow from their interviews, and don't try to file every detail into its assigned ...
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2004
Excellent Business Book!
Confronting Reality" is a gold-mine of perspective on how to get an organization properly focused - starting by confronting reality. It belongs on the bookshelf of every manager with bottom-line responsibility.
Bossidy begins by stating that any plan for a business ...
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