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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 that...

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 Princeton Univ Pr
 December - Hardcover
 Competition
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Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It-No Matter What
Buy Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It-No Matter What from Amazon  By Treacy, Michael Amazon's customers rating

After Michael Treacy finished writing his bestseller, The Discipline of Market Leaders, he continued to track the companies profiled to answer one major question: how do market-leading...

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 Portfolio
 December - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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How to Grow When Markets Don't
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Though most companies claim to be growth oriented, surprisingly few actually achieve double-digit growth-and over the past 10 years, that percentage has steadily decreased. In HOW TO GROW WHEN MARKETS

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 Warner Books
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 Business Growth
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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
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In the worldwide bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen exposed a crushing paradox behind the failure of many industry leaders. By doing what good companies were supposed

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 Harvard Business School Press
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 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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 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...

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 Modern Library
 December - 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
Buy False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today from Amazon  By Hoopes, James Amazon's customers rating

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...

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 Perseus Publishing
 December - Hardcover
 Management Gurus
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Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
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Human interaction is never flawless. Even the best relationships produce tension and at times, unpleasant emotions. Since organizations are comprised of people, all organizations generate emotional...

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 Harvard Business School Press
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 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...

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 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 influential...

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 December - 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

They came from across the country and from the lab down the hall. Some left behind lucrative jobs, some moved their families. Each...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 December - 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
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 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 - 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
 December - Hardcover
 High Technology Industry
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The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World
Buy The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World from Amazon  By Chakravorti, Bhaskar Amazon's customers rating

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 new

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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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At its peak in the nineteenth century, the British Empire was the largest empire ever known, governing roughly a quarter of the world's population. In Empire, Niall Ferguson explains how "an...

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 Basic Books
 December - 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?

Today we judge the value of every idea, institution,...

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 W. W. Norton & Company
 December - 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
 December - 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 - Hardcover
 International Business
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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
Buy Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning from Amazon  By Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly Amazon's customers rating

In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of Flow interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the

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 Viking Books
 December - Hardcover
 Personal Success
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