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marcsaim's "MBA Reading List"

42 sources. 2 books/week. 21 weeks, ~5 months

1. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment (Plume)
by George Leonard
 
2. Now, Discover Your Strengths
by Marcus Buckingham
 
3. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
 
4. 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic
by Stephen R. Covey
 
5. What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works
by Ram Charan
 
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Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business
by Ram Charan
 
7. Michael E. Porter on Competition
by Michael E. Porter
 
8. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim
 
9.
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Seeing What’s Next
by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
 
10. Re-imagine!
by Tom Peters
 
11. The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
by Peter F. Drucker
 
12. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham
 
13. The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren E. Buffett
 
14.
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack
by Charlie Munger & Peter Kaufman
 
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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers, 2nd edition
by Robert A. Cooke
 
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Essentials of Accounting, 8th edition
by Robert Newton Anthony and Leslie K. Pearlman
 
17.
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How to Read a Financial Report
by John A. Tracy
 
18. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher
 
19. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
 
20. Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated
by James P. Womack
 
21. The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.)
by Virginia Postrel
 
22. The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
 
23. The Art of Project Management
by Scott Berkun
 
24. The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market
by John Zagula
 
25. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
 
26.
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The Bootstrapper’s Bible
by Seth Godin
 
27. On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well)
by William K. Zinsser
 
28. Flawless Consulting Set , Flawless Consulting (Second Edition) and The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook
by Peter Block
 
29. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
 
30. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
by Kerry Patterson
 
31. The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
by Jeffrey Gitomer
 
32. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B. Cialdini
 
33. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
 
34.
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The Economist  
35. American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked (The American History Series)
by Thomas K. McCraw
 
36. Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
by Nancy F. Koehn
 
37. Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
by Jay M. Feinman
 
38. A Primer on Business Ethics
by Machan Tibor R.
 
39. The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
by Richard Koch
 
40.
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Principles of statistics
by M. G Bulmer
 
41. The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More than 50 Business Legends  
42.
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Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management
by Bill Swanson
 
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Created by marcsaim on Sep 13, 2006.