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Strategy + Business Best Business Books of 2006

December 12, 2006
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/article/06407a
Strategy + Business reviewers, all eminent authors and thinkers in their fields, have singled out those books that incisively portray the causes and implications of the gyrations roiling today’s business environment

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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Sex and the Single Zillionaire: A Novel
Buy Sex and the Single Zillionaire: A Novel from Amazon  By Perkins, Tom Amazon's customers rating

A fun, sexy, chick lit novel written by a man? Women everywhere will want to meet Tom Perkins. This book has received National radio reviews, reviews in women's magazines e.g., "Cosmo", "Easy Living"...

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 Regan Books
 February 2006 - Hardcover
 Business Novels
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Heroes: Saviors, Traitors, and Supermen: A History of Hero Worship
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Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization.Our need for heroes is a timeless phenomenon; from...

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 Knopf
 September 2005 - Hardcover
 Miscellaneous
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Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies
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In Purpose, world-renowned thought leader Nikos Mourkogiannis turns the entire idea of leadership on its head and shows that the choice between values and success is no choice at all....

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 Palgrave Macmillan
 October 2006 - Hardcover
 General Management
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Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
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Experience and Learn Ronald Heifetz's Dynamic Approach to Leadership

If leaders are made, not born, what is the best way to teach the skills they need to be effective? Today's complex times...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 October 2005 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader
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Too many companies are managed not by leaders, but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What does it take to be a real leader—one who is confident in who she is and what she stands for,...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 February 2006 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities
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A New Model of Leadership for a Divided World

As our world grows smaller, opportunities for conflict multiply. Ethnic, religious, political, and personal differences drive people apart—with...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 May 2006 - Hardcover
 Leadership
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Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization
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In Reinventing Leadership, Bennis and Townsend discuss their concise leadership plan for the 21st century that reinvented leadership strategies and aims to empower both employees and organization....

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 Leadership
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The Core Value Proposition: Capture the Power of Your Business Building Ideas
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The Core Value Proposition captures the full power of your business building ideas! Gives clear-cut focus to your objectives and strategies. Saves both development time and money. Reveals...

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 Trafford Publishing
 July 2006 - Paperback
 Innovation & Creativity
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The Growth Gamble: When Leaders Should Bet Big On New Business And How They Can Avoid Expensive Failures
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The received wisdom is to try harder, to be more innovative, to take more risk - and almost every company tries. There are only a tiny percentage of management teams who settle for sticking to their...

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 Nicholas Brealey
 May 2005 - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A Urban New World
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In the middle of the night they quickly build houses and seize land before the police destroy their fragile homes. They're squatters--families that risk the wrath of governments and property owners by

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 Routledge
 March 2006 - Paperback
 Poverty
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The New Argonauts : Regional Advantage in a Global Economy
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Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon Valley and their home

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 Harvard Business School Press
 April 2006 - Hardcover
 Globalization
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The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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Sometime this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all other natural factors. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever...

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 Atlantic Monthly Press
 January 2006 - Hardcover
 Environment & Society
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Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery
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A stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centered on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs.

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 W. W. Norton & Company
 May 2006 - Hardcover
 Globalization
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Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
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Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 June 2006 - Hardcover
 Economics
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Six Sigma for Marketing Processes: An Overview for Marketing Executives, Leaders, and Managers
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Nearly half of the top one hundred Fortune 500 companies use Six Sigma methodology in some part of their business. These companies have been among the top one hundred for five or more years and...

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 Prentice Hall
 February 2006 - Hardcover
 Quality & Six Sigma
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The 50 Plus Market: Why the Future Is Age-Neutral When It Comes to Marketing and Branding Strategies
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* Contains original research conducted by OMD into the relationship between age and consumer behavior

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 Kogan Page Ltd
 February 2006 - Hardcover
 Marketing to Senior Citizens
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Brand Rejuvenation: How to Protect, Stregthen & Add Value to Your Brand to Prevent It from Ageing
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At some point in their lives, all brands begin to look old - either over-taken by younger brands more in tune with the zeitgeist of the day or just tired out by their unchanging image over time....

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 Kogan Page Ltd
 May 2006 - Hardcover
 Brands & Brand Management
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Why Johnny Can't Brand: Rediscovering the Lost Art of the Big Idea
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Too many companies think that splashy advertising and cool packaging is the same thing as branding. Marketers talk about brand charisma or brand warfare, spend millions on entertaining ads starring...

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 Portfolio
 November 2005 - Hardcover
 Brands & Brand Management
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Asian Brand Strategy: How Asia Builds Strong Brands
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Towards 2020, a rapid changing landscape will emerge in Asia where the opportunities for Asian companies to benefit from international branding efforts will be larger than ever before. The growing...

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 Palgrave Macmillan
 December 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

What started as a game of Pong, with little blips dancing across a computer screen, has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry that is changing the future, making inroads into virtually...

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 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
 October 2006 - Paperback
 Media & Entertainment Industries
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