The Leading Speakers Bureau

Over the last century, many books have been written on management; few have endured. TIME magazine published its list of the top 25 “that changed the way we think about management,” from the iconic Good to Great to seminal works like The Fifth Discipline and concise classics like The One Minute Manager.

1. The Age of Unreason (1989) Charles Handy

2. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), Jim Collins and Jerry Porras

3. Competing for the Future (1996) Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad

4. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), Michael E. Porter

5. Emotional Intelligence (1995), Daniel Goleman

6. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don’t Work and What to Do about It (1985), Michael E. Gerber

7. The Essential Drucker (2001), Peter Drucker

8. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), Peter Senge

9. First, Break All the Rules (1999), Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

10.The Goal (1984), Eliyahu Goldratt

12.Guerilla Marketing (1984), Jay Conrad Levinson

13.How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Dale Carnegie

14.The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), Douglas McGregor

15.The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), Clayton Christensen

16.Leading Change (1996), John P.k Kotter

17.On Becoming a Leader (1989), Warren Bennis

18.Out of the Crisis (1982), W. Edwards Deming

19.My Years with General Motors (1964), Alfred P. Sloan Jr.

20.The One Minute Manager (1982), Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

21.Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), James Champy and
Michael Hammer

22.The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), Stephen R. Covey

23.The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh

24.Toyota Production System (1988), Taiichi Ohno

25.Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), Spencer Johnson

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