Here is the best of the best list of reading materials that we found extremely useful to our business and the companies we serve. Do we agree with everything? No. Some even contradict eachother! But what a wealth of knowledge you can take to form your own philosophy and vision.

1,001 Ways to Keep Customers Coming Back

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

The 21st Century Supervisor

Achieving Success Through Social Capital

Adversity Quotient @ Work

The Agenda - Michael Hammer

The Art of Possibility

The Art of War - Sun Tzu
(ancient Chinese text on the planning of military operations... or your business!)

Assimilating New Leaders

Beat the Street - Peter Lynch

BEWARE THE NAKED MAN WHO OFFERS YOU HIS SHIRT - Harvey MacKay (people, money, and business knowledge)

Blown to Bits - Philip Evans

BORN TO WIN - Muriel James and Dorothy Jongeward
(classic on Transactional Analysis; Parent-Adult-Child Structure Analysis)

Brand Asset Management - Scott M. Davis

Brand Leadership

Brand New

Brand Warfare

Break the Rules

Building Brandwidth - Sergio Zyman and Scott Miller

Built to Last - James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Bullseye!

Burnout / The High Cost of Achievement - Dr. Herbert J. Freudenberger, Ph.D. (beating the high cost of success)

Business to Business Direct Marketing - Bernie Goldburg and Tracy Emerick
(“how to” textbook on B2B marketing)

The Capitalist Philosophers

Capitalize on Merger Chaos

Cash Rules

The Channel Advantage - Lawrence G. Friedman and Timothy R. Furey

Choosing Success / Transactional Analysis on the Job - Dorothy Jongeward, Ph.D, and Philip C. Seyer, M.A.

Business Application of T.A. and Understanding Behavior

Collaborative Advantage

Competing for Talent

Complete Guide to Executive Manners - Letitia Baldrige (best seller and guide to what isn’t taught in business school)

Creating a Culture of Competence

Creative Destruction

The Creative Executive

Culture.com - Peg Neuhauser, Ray Bender and Kirk Stromberg

The Customer-Centered Enterprise - Harvey Thompson

The Customer Marketing Method

Customer Once, Client Forever

The Customer Revolution - Patricia B. Seybold

Customers Rule!

Customer Winback - Jill Griffin and Michael W. Lowenstein

Differentiate or Die - Jack Trout and Steve Rivkin

Digital Capital

Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty - Harvey MacKay (building and maintaining the network you need)

Discovering the Leader in You

Driving Customer Equity

eBrands

e-Profit - Peter S. Cohan

Evolve!

Executive Instinct

Executive Resource Management

Free Agent Nation - Daniel H. Pink

Frogs Into Princes - Richard Bandler and John Grinder (mirroring your prospects using Neuro-Linguistic Programming)

From .com to .profit

Full Price

The Future of Leadership

Future Perfect

Future Wealth

Games People Play - Eric Berne, M.D. (originator of T.A.; pyschology of relationships)

Generations at Work - Ron Zemke, Claire Raines, and Bob Filipczak

Getting Results

Global Teams

Good To Great - Jim Collins

Guerilla Marketing

The Hard Road to the Softer Side

Hidden Value - Charles A. O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer

How Digital Is Your Business? - Adrian J. Slywotzky and David J. Morrison

How to Hire & Develop Your Next Top Performer

I’m OK — You're OK - Tom Harris, M.D. (how our feelings aboout ourselves influence relationships)

Improving Customer Satisfaction, Loyalty, and Profit - Michael D. Johnson and Anders Gustafsson

In and Out of the Garbage Pail - Frederick “Fritz” Perls, M.D. (classic on Gestalt Therapy and self-awareness)

Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business - Leigh Branham

The Invisible Touch

It Takes a Prophet to Make a Profit

Judo Strategy - Jurgen Schrempp

Key Customers

The Leadership Pipeline

Leading the Revolution - Gary Hamel

Leading Up

Learning in Action

Living on the Fault Line

Making the Cisco Connection

Making the Invisible Visible

Managing Crises Before They Happen - Ian I. Mitroff with Gus Anagnos

Managing Up

Marketing Outrageously

The Marketing Plan

The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Marketing Course - Jeffrey L. Seglin (effective substitute for business degree in marketing)

MetaCapitalism

Millionaire

Mission Critical

More Than a Motorcycle

The Natural Laws of Business

Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy (candid look at the advertising industry and what works)

Pay People Right!

PeopleSmart

Permission Marketing

The Politics of the Family - R.D. Laing (how previous generations pass on outdated attitudes)

The Power of Gold

The Prince - Machiavelli

Procrastination / Why You Do It, What To Do About It - Jane B. Burka, Ph.D., and Lenora M. Yuen, Ph.D. (a humorous look at a problem and how to manage it)

Profit from the Core - Chris Zook with James Allen

The Profit Zone - Adrian J. Slywotzky and David Morrison (corporate strategy and reinvention to win in the marketplace)

The Project Manager's MBA - Dennis J.Cohen and Robert J. Graham

Power Talk

Practice What You Preach

Proven Strategies in Competitive Intelligence

Psycho-Cybernetics - Maxwell Maltz, M.D. (classic on how to use rational thinking)

Rainmaker

Reclaiming the Fire

The Relationship-Based Enterprise

Rewarding Excellence

Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki (what conventional education doesn't teach)

The Richest Man In Babylon - George S. Clason (thrift and personal wealth and the road to prosperity)

The ROI of Human Capital

Scripts People Live - Claude Steiner (living out of harmony when controlled by a script)

The Secret Handshake

Secrets of Power Marketing

Secrets of Question Based Selling - Thomas A. Freese

Serious Play

The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey (classic on gaining control of your personal and professional life)

Shopping for Identity

Six Sigma - Mikel Harry, Ph.D. and Richard Schroeder

The Smart Manager’s F.A.Q. Guide

The Social Life of Information

Spin Selling

Start Small, Finish Big

The Strategy-Focused Organization - Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

Streetwise Marketing Plan - Don Debelak (sensible templates for buliding a marketing plan)

Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive - Harvey MacKay (outselling and outnegotiating your competition in business)

Target Marketing

Tested Advertising Methods - John Caples (proven advertising techniques from legend in advertising)

A Time For Leadership

Total Career Fitness

The Trusted Advisor - David H. Maister, Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford

Turn It Off

Use The News

What Do I Do Now?

What the CEO Wants You to Know

What It Takes To Succeed In Sales - Jeanne and Herbert Greenberg (statistical study on characteristics of empathy, ego, motivation)

When Smart People Fail / Rebuilding Yourself for Success - Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb (case histories with reassuring advice that all have failed)

Winning Market Leadership

Winning Score

Winning the Influence Game

Winning the Talent Wars

The Workplace Law Advisor

World View


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