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s+b Best Business Books 2003

December 12, 2003
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/03408?pg=0
"Our list of the best business books is both eclectic and subjective. We ask our critics — all of them influential business thought leaders — to seek out works that either make substantive contributions to the body of business knowledge, or bring to business provocative insights from other fields."

Most books where published in 2002-2003, however, a few classics are included.

Please note: some books may be missing from this list, as they may not be available.Our list may include different editions than originally listed


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Competitive Solutions : The Strategist's Toolkit
Buy Competitive Solutions : The Strategist's Toolkit from Amazon  By McAfee, R. Preston Amazon's customers rating

Competitive Solutions is an entertaining and wideranging introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all premise...

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 Princeton Univ Pr
 September 2002 - Hardcover
 Competition
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Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It-No Matter What
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The bestselling author of The Discipline of Market Leaders reveals how companies can achieve sustained growth. In their 1995 blockbuster The Discipline of Market Leaders, Michael...

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 Portfolio
 August 2003 - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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How to Grow When Markets Don't
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From two vanguards of global strategy consulting comes this eye-opening look at the business dilemma of unsustainable growth--along with insights on what companies can do to stimulate consistent...

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 Warner Books
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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The Growth Paradox

At best one company in ten is able to sustain profitable growth. Yet capital markets demand that all companies seek it relentlessly and mercilessly punish those who fail. Why...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 September 2003 - Hardcover
 Innovation & Creativity
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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
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The annual budgeting process is a trap. Pressured by fixed targets and performance incentives, managers focus on making the numbers instead of making a difference, meeting set goals instead of...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Budgeting
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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
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From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution. Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills...

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 Modern Library
 March 2003 - Hardcover
 Business History & Biography
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False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today
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A critical reassessment of the ideas that shaped modern management. According to Jim Hoopes, the fundamental principles on which business is based--authority, power, control--are increasingly at odds

Ranking at Amazon 34689
 Perseus Publishing
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Management Gurus
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Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
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Frost argues that managers must work to institutionalize compassion if they want to avoid the debilitating effects of pain on performance. He illustrates how managers can recognize and support toxin...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 January 2003 - Hardcover
 Negotiation & Persuasion
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When You Say Yes but Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies... and What You Can Do About It
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We live in a culture—especially at work—that prefers harmony over discord, agreement over dissent, speed over deliberation. We often smile and nod to each other even though deep down we could not...

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 Crown Publishing Group
 May 2003 - Hardcover
 Negotiation & Persuasion
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Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success
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In a breakthrough Organization Man for the twenty-first century, bestselling author Art Kleiner reveals that every organization is driven by a desire to satisfy a Core Group of ...

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 Doubleday
 November 2003 - Hardcover
 Personal Success
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Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World
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"It's going to change the world."-Dean Kamen

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 Harvard Business School Press
 June 2003 - Hardcover
 Companies and Industries
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How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate
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Lessons from Famous "Invention Factories" Past and Present

Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously "turned night into...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 June 2003 - Hardcover
 Innovation & Creativity
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Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created
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The riveting story of the origins of our digital age and the crusaders and inventors who made it all possible.

Computer chips are an almost invisible part of our modern lives, and yet they make...

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 Perseus Publishing
 December 2002 - Hardcover
 Information Technology & Telecom Industries
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Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
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In today's information-rich environment, companies can no longer afford to rely entirely on their own ideas to advance their business, nor can they restrict their innovations to a single path to...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 March 2003 - Hardcover
 High Technology Industry
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The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World
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Shaping the Market Endgame-the Innovator's Playbook

Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior

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 Harvard Business School Press
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 Innovation & Creativity
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
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A grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization, with lessons for an ever-expanding American Empire--from England's most talented young historian.

The British Empire was

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 Basic Books
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Business History & Biography
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
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Democracy has reshaped politics, economics, and culture around the world. This provocative book asks, can you have too much of a good thing?

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 W. W. Norton & Company
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Politics
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One World: The Ethics of Globalization
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Known for his original and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding...

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 Yale Univ Pr
 October 2002 - Hardcover
 Globalization
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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Every few years, a book is published about America's role in the world and the changing contest of global affairs that gets everyone thinking in a new way. Amy Chua's WORLD ON FIRE will have exactly

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 Doubleday
 December 2002 - Hardcover
 International Business
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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
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Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi published the groundbreaking Flow more than a decade ago, world leaders such as Tony Blair and former President Clinton, and influential sports figures like Super Bowl...

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 Viking Books
 April 2003 - Hardcover
 Personal Success
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