Some Interesting Management Readings

Here are some all-time great books from management discipline.   I have tried to pick these works so as to give a non-management person also a good idea of what management students/graduates talk about! 

Even though they are not listed in any particular order, the first two are relatively light reads and hence a good start.

 

  • Sam Walton: Made in America (Excerpts & Insights here)

  • Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA

    • Peter Robinson

     

  • The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

    • Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
     

  • Corps Business : The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines

    • David H. Freedman, Charles C. Krulak(Foreword)
     

  • The Practice Of Management

    • Peter F. Drucker
     

  • Built To Last

    • Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
     

  • The Living Company: Habits For Survival In A Turbulent Business Environment

    • Arie de Geus
     

  • Competitive Advantage : Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

    • Michael E. Porter, Micheal Porter
     

  • The Fifth Discipline : The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

    • Peter M. Senge
     

  • Competitive Strategy : Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

    • Michael E. Porter
     

  • Only the Paranoid Survive : How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

    • Andrew S. Grove
     

  • Reengineering the Corporation : A Manifesto for Business Revolution

    • Michael Hammer, James Champy

     

  • First, Break All the Rules : What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

    • Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
     

  • The Ten-Day MBA : A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in America's Top Business Schools

    • Steven Silbiger
     

  • Co-opetition : 1. A Revolutionary Mindset That Redefines Competition and Cooperation; 2. The Game Theory Strategy That's Changing the Game of Business

    • Adam M. Brandenburger, Barry J. Nalebuff
     

  • Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

    • Bill Gates, Collins Hemingway(Contributor)
     

  • Finding Your Way With an MBA : Insights from Those Landing Ideal Jobs

    • Susan Cohn, et al.
     

  • Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth Of Organizations

    • Thomas A. Stewart
     

  • ReWiring The Corporate Brain

    • Danah Zohar
     

  • Co-opetition

    • Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff (Currency Doubleday)
     

  • Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Internet Business

    • Peter S. Cohan
     

  • The Arc Of Ambition

    • James Champy and Nitin Nohria
     

  • The Knowing-Doing Gap

    • Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
     

  • Organizational Effectiveness: The Ultimate Competitive Advantage

    • Edward Lawler
     

  • The One Minute Manager

    • Spencer Johnson(Introduction), Kenneth H. Blanchard(Introduction)
     

  • The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

    • William, Jr. Oncken, et al
     

  • Leading the Revolution

    • Gary Hamel

 

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 Last updated: July 24, 2003