The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books

There's never a shortage of new books about how to be more effective in business. Most of them are forgettable, but here are 25 that changed the way we think about management from the iconic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" to groundbreaking tomes like "Guerilla Marketing" and quick reads like the "The One Minute Manager".

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Business Guides
The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), by Dale Carnegie The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh Toyota Production System (1988), by Taiichi Ohno Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson

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