What Three Books Have Had the Biggest Impact on You as a Business Leader?

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| Oct 7, 2009

If you had to rate the top three business books you've read what would they be?  What books have had the most impact on your role as a leader in business? Your top three recommendations for business leaders - 1.2.3..

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| Oct 7, 2009

How to Win friends and influence People by Dale Carnegie
The Psychology of winning by Dr Dennis Waitley
The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People by Stephen Covey
Over The Top by Zig Ziglar

Cetainly this is by far not exhaustive and I have a hard ime to weight them or number them, but I believe the order in which I read them, and topics sort of build together. Although it was years ago I read them some more than 1x, I refer to many of them to this day.

I would recommend certainly the first three even for the youngest reader.

Bob Holland

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| Oct 8, 2009

The Speed of Trust
Execution
My Personal Best

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| Oct 13, 2009

1 The Effective Executive by Peter F Drucker
2 Success through positive mental attitude by Napoleon Hill and Clement Stone
3. Cost Accounting - A Managerial Emphasis by Charles T Horngren

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| Nov 9, 2009
1. Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman 2. Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 3. Reinventing the CFO Thomas Walther/Henry Johansson
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| Nov 11, 2009
Halo Effect (Rosenzweig), Fooled by Randomness (Taleb), How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), Tipping Point (Gladwell) No particular Order
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| Oct 26, 2009

1. 'Good to Great' - Jim Collins
2. 'Crucial Conversations' - by Kerry Patterson
3. 'Leadership & Self-deception' - Arbinger Institute

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andrew
| Nov 2, 2009

1. Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven R. Covey
3. The Art of War - Sun-Tzu

Anything by Brian Tracy, Zig Zigglar, Jim Rohn is also excellent.

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| Nov 6, 2009

1. The Black Swan - by Nicholas Taleb
2. When Genius Failed - by Roger Lowenstein
3. Stalingrad - by Antony Beevor

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| Nov 12, 2009
FREE (by Chistopher Anderson, author of the Long Tail) WHy? Because we're all going to be faced with more and more complex revenue challenges in the continued drive to win customers SuperFreakanomics (Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner) Why? Because it reminded me to renew attention to two business principles: Think outside the box when looking for solutions... Think about the simple solution to fix problems -- not always the most complex.
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| Nov 13, 2009
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14698784. Thought this was a fun take on management "gurus".
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| Nov 20, 2009
1.Managing For Results........Peter Drucker; 2.Up the Organization........Robert Townsend; 3.A Passion for Excellence.......Tom Peters; 4.Leadership A to Z.......James O'Toole; 5.Financier the Biography of Andre Meyer........Cary Reich
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| Dec 18, 2009

Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton ... helps you leverage the power of your true strengths rather than strengthening weaknesses

Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi ... build and nurture a strong network

Book Yourself Solid, Michael Port ... written for entrepreneurs it helps you think about yourself as a product when you're in job search mode

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| Sep 7, 2010

My three, all by David Maister:

1. The Trusted Advisor
2. True Professionalism
3. Managing the Professional Services Firm

Bonus book:

Profitpreneurship by Ren Carlton

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