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CEO refresher - The Best Business Books

December 12, 2004
http://refresher.com/bestbooks.html
The following great works are the very best - in the opinion of the editors of The CEO Refresher.

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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Flight of the Buffalo:Soaring To Excellence,learning To Let Employees Lead
Buy Flight of the Buffalo:Soaring To Excellence,learning To Let Employees Lead from Amazon  By Belasco, James Amazon's customers rating

A hardcover bestseller now in paperback presents a management program that encourages employee leadership--which today's companies must have more of if they are to survive the coming decades.

Ranking at Amazon 103023
 Warner Books
 August 1994 - Paperback
 Leadership
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Big Vision, Small Business: Four Keys to Success Without Growing Big
Buy Big Vision, Small Business: Four Keys to Success Without Growing Big from Amazon  By Walters, Jamie S. Amazon's customers rating

While most of the business world glorifies growth, Big Vision, Small Business celebrates the art — and power — of thinking small. Based on more than 70 interviews with small-business owners and on

Ranking at Amazon 363236
 Butterworth-Heinemann
 October 2002 - Paperback
 Entrepreneurship
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Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity
Buy Managing the Unexpected: Assuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity from Amazon  By Weick, Karl Amazon's customers rating

High reliability organizations (HROs) such as ER units in hospitals or firefighting units are designed to perform efficiently under extreme stress and pressure. Using HROs as the model for the 21st...

Ranking at Amazon 48655
 Jossey-Bass
 July 2001 - Hardcover
 Complexity in Business
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Leading High Impact Teams: The Coach Approach to Peak Performance
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In today's work world, a leader capable of galvanizing a team to produce superlative results is invaluable. This book shows new team leaders the way to avoid costly trial-and-error mistakes. It...

Ranking at Amazon 1174581
 High Impact Publishing
 October 2001 - Hardcover
 Team Work
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The Art of Profitability
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What do Barbie dolls, Nokia phones, and American Express credit cards have in common? They all represent a powerful business model called pyramid profit. How about Intel, Microsoft, and Stephen King?...

Ranking at Amazon 483287
 Warner Books
 September 2002 - Hardcover
 Corporate Strategy
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The New Law of Demand and Supply: The Revolutionary New Demand Strategy for Faster Growth and Higher Profits
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A groundbreaking business book for the twenty-first century, The New Law of Demand and Supply overturns the traditional supply-side approach to how business is done, showing why a demand-based...

Ranking at Amazon 642826
 Currency
 June 2002 - Hardcover
 Economics
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Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life, One Conversation at a Time
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The Wall Street Journal bestseller, now with new material. The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants her readers to succeed. To do that, she...

Ranking at Amazon 1191
 Berkley Pub Group
 January 2004 - Paperback
 Business Communications
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Winning Without Losing Your Way: Character-Centered Leadership
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The scandals of 2002 are continuing into 2003 - our headlines are filled daily with revelations of accounting fraud, corporate corruption and billion dollar equity losses that have wiped out...

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 Winning Your Way, Inc.
 February 2003 - Paperback
 Personal Success
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Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison
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"Becoming a Category of One shows what it takes to build a brand on something more than just product. This book inspires us to go for greatness, and to...

Ranking at Amazon 410108

 John Wiley & Sons
 August 2003 - Hardcover
 Marketing
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The Experience Economy
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Future economic growth lies in the value of experiences and transformations--good and services are no longer enough. We are on the threshold, say authors Pine and Gilmore, of the Experience Economy, a

Ranking at Amazon 11885
 Harvard Business School Press
 April 1999 - Hardcover
 Customer Relationship
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Be the Leader: Make the Difference
Buy Be the Leader: Make the Difference from Amazon  By Thornton, Paul Amazon's customers rating

Can you lead? Can you make the difference? Winning leaders do three things: they challenge the status quo; they build confidence in others; and they coach people on what to do and how to do it. Be

Ranking at Amazon 904408
 Continental Sales
 November 2001 - Paperback
 Leadership
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Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way
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For more than 200 years, the U.S. Marine Corps has been a paragon of world-class leadership, excelling in the areas of motivation, training, and management. Semper Fi -- which since its...

Ranking at Amazon 201909
 AMACOM - American Management Association
 September 2004 - Paperback
 Leadership Lessons, Secrets and Fables
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The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions
Buy The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads & Other Workplace Afflictions from Amazon  By Adams, Scott Amazon's customers rating

The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage -- management.

Since 1989, Scott Adams has been illustrating...

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 HarperCollins
 June 1997 - Paperback
 Business Humor
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The Fifth Discipline
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Finally in paperback, Senge's national bestseller The Fifth Discipline, which has turned the principles of the learning organization into a movement of snowballing size and strength. The ability to...

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 Currency
 October 1994 - Paperback
 Organizational Learning
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The Art of War
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Widely regarded as "The Oldest Military Treatise in the World," this compact little book, written more than 2,500 years ago, today retains much of its original authoritative merit. American officers...

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 Dover Pubns
 November 2002 - Paperback
 Classic Strategy
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Stewardship : Choosing Service over Self-Interest
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In this revolutionary book, Peter Block shows how a far-reaching redistribution of power, privilege, and wealth will radically change all areas of organizational governance, and shows why this is...

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 Audio Literature
 December 1997 - Audio Cassette
 Management Skills
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Everybody Wins: A Life in Free Enterprise
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Everybody Wins! is a case study in American business enterprise told through the life of an extraordinary man. The book chronicles how Gordon Cain, a chemical engineer well past retirement age,...

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 Chemical Heritage Foundation
 December 1997 - Hardcover
 Companies and Industries
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The Tom Peters Seminar
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or the first time ever, the acclaimed author of the phenomenal #1 bestsellingbusiness book In Search of Excellence presents the same provocative, challenging, and sometimes scary seminar that...

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 Vintage Books
 January 1994 - Paperback
 Change Management
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Competing for the Future
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Hamel and Prahalad offer a masterful blueprint for what a company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive high ground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 April 1996 - Paperback
 Competition
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Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will: How Jack Welch Is Turning General Electric the World's Most Competitive Corporation
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The closest advisor to the CEO of GE describes how Welch pursued an agenda of change, throwing out GE's established order and revolutionizing the company. 40,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo.

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 Doubleday
 December 1992 - Hardcover
 Companies and Industries
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