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The Business Owner's Bookshelf

April 04, 2009
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/the-business-owners-bookshelf.html
30 books you should read and put to use

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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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Buy Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk from Amazon  By Bernstein, Peter Amazon's customers rating

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to...

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 John Wiley & Sons
 August 1998 - Paperback
 Risk Management
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The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up
Buy The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up from Amazon  By Brodsky, Norm Amazon's customers rating

Two of Inc. magazine’s hugely popular columnists show how small-business people can deal with all kinds of tricky situations. People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step...

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 Portfolio
 October 2008 - Hardcover
 Entrepreneurship
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Let My People Go Surfing : The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Buy Let My People Go Surfing : The Education of a Reluctant Businessman from Amazon  By Chouinard, Yvon Amazon's customers rating

Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies....

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 Penguin Books
 October 2005 - Hardcover
 Business History & Biography
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Mark Twain once observed, “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on.” His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus...

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 Random House
 January 2007 - Hardcover
 Innovation & Creativity
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
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As American capitalism undergoes a seismic shift, Michael Lewis, author of the bestselling Liar's Poker, sets out on a Silicon Valley safari to find the true representative of the coming ...

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 Penguin Books
 January 2001 - Paperback
 Information Technology & Telecom Industries
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Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
Buy Nuts!: Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success from Amazon  By Peters, Tom Amazon's customers rating

Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is "Hire people with a sense of...

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 Broadway Books
 February 1998 - Paperback
 Aviation, Aerospace & Airline Industries
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Ogilvy on Advertising
Buy Ogilvy on Advertising from Amazon  By Ogilvy, David Amazon's customers rating

A candid and indispensable primer on all aspects of advertising from the man Time has called "the most sought after wizard in the business". 223 photos.

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 Vintage Books
 March 1985 - Paperback
 Advertising
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On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition
Buy On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition from Amazon  By Porter, Peter Amazon's customers rating

For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark...

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 Harvard Business School Press
 September 2008 - Hardcover
 Competition
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Personal History
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Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Personal History is, as its title suggests, a...

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 Vintage Books
 February 1998 - Paperback
 Business Leaders
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Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time
Buy Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time from Amazon  By Schultz, Howard Amazon's customers rating

The "BusinessWeek" bestseller, now in paperback. "Pour Your Heart Into It" tells the story of how small-company values, passion, and integrity turned six local coffee stories into the Starbucks...

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 Hyperion
 January 1999 - Paperback
 Food, Beverage & Tobacco Industries
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Small Giants : Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Buy Small Giants : Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big from Amazon  By Burlingham, Bo Amazon's customers rating

How maverick companies have passed up revenue growth—and focused on greatness instead Most books about successful businesses focus on public companies, where the definition for success

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 Portfolio
 December 2005 - Hardcover
 Business Growth
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The Soul Of A New Machine
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Computers have changed since 1981, when Tracy Kidder memorably recorded the drama, comedy, and excitement of one companys efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market. What has not changed is the...

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 Back Bay Books
 June 2000 - Paperback
 Information Technology & Telecom Industries
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The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannan
Buy The Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith ; Introduction by Alan B. Krueger ; Edited, With Notes and Marginal Summary, by Edwin Cannan from Amazon  By Smith, Adam Amazon's customers rating

The Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithIt is symbolic that Adam Smith’s masterpiece of economic analysis, The Wealth of Nations , was first published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of...

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 Bantam Books
 March 2003 - Mass Market Pap
 Macroeconomics
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What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
Buy What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business from Amazon  By Magretta, Joan Amazon's customers rating

"This book will help managers in any type of organization, including nonprofits and the public sector, do their jobs better."

-- Michael E. Porter Harvard Business School

Whether...

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 Free Press
 April 2002 - Hardcover
 General Management
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Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
Buy Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations from Amazon  By Stewart, Thomas Amazon's customers rating

Knowledge has become the most important factor in economic life. It is the chief ingredient of what we buy and sell, the raw material with which we work. Intellectual capital--not natural resources,...

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 Bantam Books
 December 1998 - Paperback
 Intellectual Capital
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The Innovator's Dilemma
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In this revolutionary bestseller, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen says outstanding companies can do everything right and still lose their market leadership, or worse, disappear completely.

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 HarperCollins
 January 2003 - Paperback
 Innovation & Creativity
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The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything
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What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues...

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 Portfolio
 September 2004 - Hardcover
 Entrepreneurship
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The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in

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 Princeton Univ Pr
 March 2006 - Hardcover
 International Trade
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Brand New : How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell
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Until Josiah Wedgwood, Britons ate from wood and pewter plates. Until Henry Heinz, women toiled over pickled foods. Until Michael Dell, few people owned a personal computer, let alone dreamed of...

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 Harvard Business School Press
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 Entrepreneurship
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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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