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The "Personal MBA" books

The Personal MBA (PMBA) is an experiment in educational entrepreneurism. This manifesto will show you how to substantially increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost, all without setting foot inside a classroom.

The PMBA is more flexible than a traditional MBA program, doesn’t involve going into massive debt, and won’t interrupt your income stream for two years. Just set aside some dedicated reading time, pick up a good book, learn as much as you can, and go out and make great things happen.

Much more information <a href="http://www.joshkaufman.net/personalmba/">here</a> and at <a href="http://personalmba.com/">personalmba.com</a>.
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. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey
  
5. What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works
by Ram Charan
  
6. Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business: 10 Tools You Can Use Monday Morning
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. Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
by Clayton M. Christensen
  
10. The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management
by Peter F. Drucker
  
11. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham
  
12. The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
by Marcus Buckingham
  
13. The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren E. Buffett
  
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 Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
by Charles T. Munger
  
15. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers
by Robert A. Cooke
  
16. Essentials of Accounting (9th Edition) (Essentials of Accounting)
by Robert N. Anthony
  
17. The Goal (revised) : A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  
18. Lean Thinking : Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated
by James P. Womack
  
19. The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.)
by Virginia Postrel
  
20. The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
  
21. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
  
22. The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market
by John Zagula
  
23. The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by Guy Kawasaki
  
24. The Bootstrapper's Bible: How to Start and Build a Business With a Great Idea and (Almost) No Money
by Seth Godin
  
25. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
by Kerry Patterson
  
26. On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (On Writing Well)
by William K. Zinsser
  
27. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
  
28. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by Robert B. Cialdini
  
29. The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
by Jeffrey Gitomer
  
30. Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
by Peter Block
  
31. Real Estate Principles for the New Economy (with CD-ROM)
by Norman G. Miller
  
32. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
by Roger Fisher
  
33. Principles of Statistics
by M.G. Bulmer
  
34. A Primer on Business Ethics
by Machan Tibor R.
  
35. Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
by Nancy F. Koehn
  
36. American Business, 1920-2000: How It Worked (The American History Series)
by Thomas K. McCraw
  
37. The Little Book of Business Wisdom: Rules of Success from More than 50 Business Legends  
38. Re-imagine!
by Tom Peters
  
39. The Art of Project Management
by Scott Berkun
  
40. The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
by Richard Koch
  
41.
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 Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management
by Bill Swanson
  
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 The Economist
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43.
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 Unwritten Laws of Engineering
by W. J. King
  
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Created by Bill Turner on Apr 06, 2006.