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Fast Company's Best Books of 2005

January 01, 2006
http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2006/01/05/fast_companys_best_books_of_2005.html
Here's Fast Company's list of the 15 (!) best business books published in 2005

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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15 books found
 
Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Buy Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking from Amazon  By Gladwell, Malcolm Amazon's customers rating

How do we make decisions--good and bad--and why are some people so much better at it than others? Thats the question Malcolm Gladwell asks and answers in the follow-up to his huge bestseller, The...

Ranking at Amazon 2837
 Little Brown & Co (Pap)
 January 2005 - Hardcover
 Management Skills
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Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win
Buy Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win from Amazon  By Stalk, George Amazon's customers rating

Classic Strategies for Unapologetic Winners

Great companies stumble and fall when they lose it. Highfliers crash when a competitor notices they don't have it. Start-ups shut down if...

Ranking at Amazon 477347

 Harvard Business School Press
 October 2004 - Hardcover
 Competition
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Buy Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant from Amazon  By Chan Kim, W Amazon's customers rating

Winning by Not Competing: A Fresh Approach to Strategy

Since the dawn of the industrial age, companies have engaged in head-to-head competition in search of sustained,...

Ranking at Amazon 624

 Harvard Business School Press
 February 2005 - Hardcover
 Competition
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Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? What...

Ranking at Amazon 11560
 William Morrow
 May 2005 - Hardcover
 Economics
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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
Buy The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent from Amazon  By Florida, Richard Amazon's customers rating

Research–driven and clearly written, bestselling economist Richard Florida addresses the growing alarm about the exodus of high–value jobs from the USA. Today's most valued workers are what...

Ranking at Amazon 621540
 HarperBusiness
 April 2005 - Hardcover
 Human Resources
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A Whole New Mind
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Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of...

Ranking at Amazon 64218
 Riverhead Books
 March 2005 - Hardcover
 Work From Home
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Return on Customer: Creating Maximum Value From Your Scarcest Resource
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Internationally acclaimed business gurus and best-selling authors Don Peppers and Martha Rogers kicked off the CRM revolution and changed the landscape of business competition with their classic...

Ranking at Amazon 242902
 Currency
 June 2005 - Hardcover
 Customer Relationship
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The Sociopath Next Door
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Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teacher?Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings?The colleague who stole your idea and...

Ranking at Amazon 102368
 Broadway Books
 February 2005 - Hardcover
 Miscellaneous
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The Ten Faces of Innovation : IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
Buy The Ten Faces of Innovation : IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization from Amazon  By Kelley, Thomas Amazon's customers rating

The author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation reveals the strategies IDEO, the world-famous design firm, uses to foster innovative thinking throughout an organization and overcome the...

Ranking at Amazon 4816
 Currency
 October 2005 - Hardcover
 Innovation & Creativity
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Brand Sense : Build Powerful Brands through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound
Buy Brand Sense : Build Powerful Brands through Touch, Taste, Smell, Sight, and Sound from Amazon  By Kotler, Philip Amazon's customers rating

In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on sensory branding ever written, international business legend Martin Lindstrom reveals what the world's most successful branding companies do...

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 Free Press
 February 2005 - Hardcover
 Brands & Brand Management
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Smartbomb : The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution
Buy Smartbomb : The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution from Amazon  By Chaplin, Heather Amazon's customers rating

The movie business celebrates its creators: Spielberg, DeMille, Scorsese, Hitchcock. But what about the “ names” behind Doom, The Sims, Donkey Kong, Grand Theft Auto—the games that spawned a...

Ranking at Amazon 784882
 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
 November 2005 - Hardcover
 Media & Entertainment Industries
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Get Them On Your Side
Buy Get Them On Your Side from Amazon  By Bacharach, Samuel B. Amazon's customers rating

Learn how to mobilize support, improve efficiency, and get things done!

Politics is an inevitable, legitimate, and even beneficial aspect of corporate and organizational life. Hard work and good

Ranking at Amazon 843519

 Adams Media Corporation
 May 2005 - Hardcover
 Management Skills
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The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Buy The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century from Amazon  By Friedman, Thomas L. Amazon's customers rating

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World...

Ranking at Amazon 75922
 Farrar Straus & Giroux
 January 2005 - Hardcover
 International Business
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Brand Hijack : Marketing Without Marketing
Buy Brand Hijack : Marketing Without Marketing from Amazon  By Wipperfurth, Alex Amazon's customers rating

Out of nowhere, a brand like Red Bull, The Blair Witch Project, or even the Howard Dean campaign takes off with little or no conventional marketing. How do these "accidents" really happen, and

Ranking at Amazon 146095
 Portfolio
 February 2005 - Hardcover
 Brands & Brand Management
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In the Bubble : Designing in a Complex World
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We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his...

Ranking at Amazon 815861
 MIT Press
 April 2005 - Hardcover
 Innovation & Creativity
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