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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change
Louis V. Gerstner
Collins Business, 2004
What Life at the Top is Really Like--As Told By a Superb Leader
+ Is it the same when it's changed?
+ Great leader
+ Where Were the Details?
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
Competitive strategy
+ A Timeless Business Strategy Classic
+ A Classic
+ Comprehensive checklist
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Jacked Up: The Inside Story of How Jack Welch Talked GE into Becoming the Worlds Greatest Company
Bill Lane
McGraw-Hill, 2007
View from the Top
+ Engaging, entertaining, informative
+ Best Profile of Jack Welch - A Good Read
+ Best Book on Corporate Speechwriting - Bar None
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The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Phil Rosenzweig
Free Press, 2007
Must read for any business manager or business analyst
+ Thought provoking. Full of wisdom. Valuable or not? Depends
+ How to separate the "nuggets" from the "nonsense"
+ Excellent insight into how simplistic thinking can lead business leaders astray
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A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint (Produce What Is Needed, ...
Shigeo Shingo, Andrew P. Dillon
Productivity Press, 1989
Detailed engineering description of TPS
+ "The" Book for Those Interested in Process Improvement
+ Excellant book to understand how the TPS evolved.
There are a lot of books about the Toyota Production System, but this is one of the most useful for those actually attempting to implement elements of this system. Most of the books on TPS by western authers are just superficial glosses written by MBA's who don't seem to have a clue how to make ...
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Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Michael E. Porter
Free Press, 1998
Using IT for Competitive Advantage
+ Pivotal contribution to management literature
+ Strategy Bible
+ Mr.
+ Porter is a topper
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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Charles R. Morris
PublicAffairs, 2008
Good Insight Into the Inner Workings of the Current Crisis
+ An opportune volume at an oportune time
+ The trillion dollar meltdown
This book was printed with the intention of providing timely information to the general public. If you take that into consideration this book is indispensable. It provides a good background to the current crisis and the author presents information on some of the inner workings of our financial ...
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Crown Business, 2004
Excellent Business Book!
+ Play Where the Puck Is Going to Be
+ Strategic solutions for a familiar problem
+ Confronting Reality : Doing What Matters to Get Things Right
+ Look! A FOREST!!!
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Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World's Greatest Wealth Machine -- And How to ...
Robert A. G. Monks
Wiley, 2007
With Courage, Trust & Accountability Can Be Restored
+ A great book for all shareholders
+ Delights and Informs
+ An Authoritative Report!
+ Captain Ahab Pursues the Great White Whale of Corpocracy
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Goal Setting: A Motivational Technique That Works!
Edwin A. Locke, Gary P. Latham
Prentice Hall Trade, 1984
Clearly shows goals and accomplishment are primary
+ Invaluable!
This is an outstanding work. Locke and Latham write so well and the idea that they have is very clearly and expertly communicated. There is no doubt that they are correct in their assessment of goal setting as the primary aspect of individual and organizational accomplishment. When you read about ...
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Parkinson's Law
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Buccaneer Books, 1993
Some great insights to human behavior
+ Parkinson's Law: funny, bitter, largely accurate
+ Insane, funny and useful
+ Excellent tool for learning bureaucracy
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Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production
Taiichi Ohno
Productivity Press, 1988
Tell it like it is
+ Toyota Production System
+ Toyota Production System
+ Everything I expected!
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The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
Peter Knobler
Random House, 1998
A New Paradigm in Police Leadership
+ He Made Things Happen....Repeatedly
+ Great Leadership and Accomplishments!
+ What good leaders do
+ Better than Giuliani's Book
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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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
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The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...
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 ...
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