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Fast Company's Best Business Books of 2004

December 12, 2004
http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2004/12/10/fcs_best_business_books_of_2004.html
Fast Company's attend to set the record straight, given the "little silly" end-of-year lists of business books.

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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Buy The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits from Amazon  By Prahalad, C.K. Amazon's customers rating

The world's most exciting, fastest-growing new market? It's where you least expect it: at the bottom of the pyramid. Collectively, the world's billions of poor people have immense...

Ranking at Amazon 265060
 Wharton School Publishing
 August 2004 - Hardcover
 Poverty
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Managers Not MBAs : A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development
Buy Managers Not MBAs : A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development from Amazon  By Mintzberg, Henry Amazon's customers rating

The trouble with "management" education, says author Henry Mintzberg, is that it is business education, and leaves a distorted impression of management. In Managers Not MBAs, he offers a new...

Ranking at Amazon 673316
 Berrett-Koehler Pub
 January 2004 - Hardcover
 Masters of Business Administration - MBA
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Alexander Hamilton
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From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. Ron Chernow, whom...

Ranking at Amazon 32884
 Penguin Books
 April 2004 - Hardcover
 Management Gurus
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Unstuck: A tool for Yourself, Your Team , and Your World
Buy Unstuck: A tool for Yourself, Your Team , and Your World from Amazon  By Yamashita, Keith Amazon's customers rating

Getting stuck is an integral part of business because the most ambitious and rewarding work is often the hardest to undertake. The challenge is knowing how to get unstuck. In this dynamic and...

Ranking at Amazon 628404
 Portfolio
 April 2004 - Hardcover
 Management Skills
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The Wisdom of Crowds : Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations
Buy The Wisdom of Crowds : Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations from Amazon  By Surowiecki, James Amazon's customers rating

“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”  —H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken was wrong.In...

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 Doubleday
 May 2004 - Hardcover
 Decision Making
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The Call of the Mall : A Walking Tour Through the Crossroads of Our Shopping Culture
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The author of the international bestseller Why We Buy -- praised by The New York Times as "a book that gives this underrated skill the respect it deserves" -- now takes us to the...

Ranking at Amazon 382023

 Simon & Schuster
 February 2004 - Hardcover
 Consumer Behavior
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Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea
Buy Free Prize Inside: The Next Big Marketing Idea from Amazon  By Godin, Seth Amazon's customers rating

Purple Cow was the #1 bestselling marketing book on Amazon in 2003. Now in Free Prize Inside, Seth Godin is back with practical advice on how to put Purple Cow thinking to work inside...

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 Portfolio
 May 2004 - Hardcover
 Marketing
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Why People Buy Things They Don't Need : Understanding and Predicting Consumer Behavior
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What motivates consumers to buy? Is it pleasure? Education? Entertainment? Status? Or just an impulse? Knowing why consumers buy what they do is the secret to predicting how they will behave in the...

Ranking at Amazon 389919
 Dearborn Trade, a Kaplan Professional Company
 July 2004 - Paperback
 Consumer Behavior
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The Allure Of Toxic Leaders: Why We Follow Destructive Bosses And Corrupt Politicians--and How We Can Survive Them
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Toxic leaders--such as Ken Lay at Enron or Al Dunlap ("Chainsaw Al") at Sunbeam, or Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia--have always been with us, and many books explain what makes them tick. But in The...

Ranking at Amazon 988704
 Oxford University Press
 September 2004 - Hardcover
 Politics
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Word Spy : The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture
Buy Word Spy : The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture from Amazon  By McFedries, Paul Amazon's customers rating

Language wears many hats, but its most important job is to help us name or describe what's in the world. Words define us, our actions, even our existence. And just when you think that you have all...

Ranking at Amazon 1151750
 Broadway Books
 February 2004 - Paperback
 Miscellaneous
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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Buy Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America from Amazon  By Almond, Steve Amazon's customers rating

Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or maybe the sublime and perfectly balanced Hershey's Cookies 'n Mint. The Marathon, an inimitable rope of...

Ranking at Amazon 641037
 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
 May 2004 - Hardcover
 Food, Beverage & Tobacco Industries
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