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The Most Influential Business Book Of The Last 30 Years?

In the 30 years since In Search of Excellence was published, critics have found flaws in its methodology, its content, and even its writing style. But the case can be made that it is the most influential management book not only in these last three decades, but perhaps ever.READ MORE

The Leadership Hall of Fame

We have spent a year looking at the most influential business books and authors. Here is a complete syllabus for an education in being a leader. Which are your favorites? And which leadership classics did we miss?READ MORE

Kidpreneur$ Offers Business Advice to the Juicebox Set

How young is too young to start grooming the next generation of young entrepreneurs? According to the authors of a new book for pre-teen magnates-in-the-making, "It's never too early."READ MORE

My Favorite Books for Bosses

In thinking about the process of writing "Good Boss, Bad Boss", and more broadly, about the set of books that I believe every boss should read, I came up with a list of my favorites.READ MORE

Business@Large: The Business Book You Should Read This Summer (and Why…)

Looking for a biz book page-turner this summer? It features among other things insights into institutional ignorance and the dark side of innovation.READ MORE

The Right Fight: How to Pick Battles on the Path to Grand Innovation

How does an organization create breakthrough performance time after time? The conventional answer is a version of "feel good" wisdom about getting everyone aligned. But it turns out that's not enough.READ MORE

A Consultant’s Economic Outlook using the Art of War

Respected Colleagues, I need your help. As a training consultancy operating within the business sphere over the last eighteen months, the economic state across the corporate sector signals a major shift in doctrinal thinking. With ...READ MORE

Business Book Challenge: Update

Last week I issued a challenge.  I wrote: "I have come to the conclusion that most (maybe all) business and strategy books are useless. They over-generalize. They offer little value.  I go in with such high ...READ MORE

My Business Book Challenge

I have come to the conclusion that most (maybe all) business and strategy books are useless. They over-generalize. They offer little value.  I go in with such high expectations, based on reviews and descriptions, and am almost ...READ MORE

Saving the World at Work

Fast Interview: Tim Sanders, author of Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference, talks about how employees are greening their companies from within, the death of the casual consumer, why bosses are welcoming their ideas, and how the new exclamation of approval is "That's off the grid!"READ MORE

Summer Reading: Why More People Are Listening to Books

Fast Interview: In this Q&A, Audible founder and CEO Donald Katz talks about what's popular this summer, the business of the spoken word, how life has changed since Amazon acquired his company, and why the "no asshole rule" is a vital corporate principle.READ MORE

Library of the Living Dead

Embrace a business best seller at your brain's peril.READ MORE

Where Art Thou?

The four kinds of places that make up today's creative world.READ MORE

In Praise of Spikes

In an exclusive excerpt, the guru of the Creative Class explains the peaks and valleys of the global economy.READ MORE

Q&A: Mr. Fix-It

Chrysler, Morrison Knudsen, Bethlehem Steel--in crisis, all called Steve Miller. In The Turnaround Kid, out February 5, the Delphi chairman writes about working for Lee Iacocca and saving some of the old economy's oldest companies.READ MORE

They Sure Don't Make Comic Books Like They Used To

It isn't mainstream, it hasn’t been seen before, and it’s definitely not into Superman. Make way for a company that, in eschewing superheroes, inducting celebrities, and creating internationally palatable South Asian edged content, is refreshingly new and different.READ MORE

Judgment and Strength of a Leader

Business author and consultant Ram Charan lists the qualities successful leaders possess in Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don't. Here is an excerpt.READ MORE

The Three Keys to Change

In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.READ MORE