• Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
• How to Be a Star at Work by Robert E. Kelley
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey B. Mackay
• The Power of Intuition by Gary Klein
• What Should I Do with My Life? by Po Bronson
• Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss/Theodore Geisel
• Chasing Daylight by Eugene O’Kelly

Leadership: Inspiration. Challenge. Courage. Change.

• On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
• The Leadership Moment by Michael Useem
• The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
• Leadership Is an Art by Max De Pree
• The Radical Leap by Steve Farber
• Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will by Tichy and Sherman
• Leading Change by John P. Kotter
• Questions of Character by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
• The Story Factor by Annette Simmons
• Never Give In! Speeches by Winston Churchill

Strategy: Eight organizational blueprints from which to draft your own.

• In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
• Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
• Discovering the Soul of Service by Leonard Berry
• Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad

Sales and Marketing: Approaches and pitfalls in the ongoing process of creating customers.

• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
• Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout
• A New Brand World by Scott Bedbury with Stephen Fenichell
• Selling the Invisible by Harry Beckwith
• Zag by Marty Neumeier
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Secrets of Closing the Sale by Zig Ziglar
• How to Become a Rainmaker by Jeffrey J. Fox
• Why We Buy by Paco Underhill
• The Experience Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Rules and Scorekeeping: The all-important numbers behind the game.

• Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan
• Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
• The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton

Management: Guiding and directing the people around you.

• The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
• Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
• Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno
• Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy
• The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
• The Great Game of Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
• First, Break all the Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Buckingham and Clifton
• The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono

Biographies: Seven lives. Unlimited lessons.

• Titan by Ron Chernow
• My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
• The HP Way by David Packard
• Personal History by Katharine Graham
• Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon
• Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey
• Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson

Entrepreneurship: Seven guides to the passion and practicality necessary for any new venture.

• The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
• The Republic of Tea by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler, and Bill Rosenzweig
• The Partnership Charter by David Gage
• Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
• Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
• The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback

Narratives: Six industry tales of both fortune and failure.

• McDonald’s: Behind the Arches by John F. Love
• American Steel by Richard Preston
• The Force by David Dorsey
• The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis

Innovation & Creativity: Insight into the process of developing new ideas.

• Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
• The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
• Jump Start Your Business Brain by Doug Hall
• A Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger Von Oech
• The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
• The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander

Big Ideas: The future of business books lies here.

• The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy
• Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
• The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Driven by Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
• To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski
• The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
• Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Takeaways: What everyone is looking for.

• The First 90 Days by Michael Watkins
• Up the Organization by Robert Townsend
• Beyond the Core by Chris Zook
• Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
• What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
• The Team Handbook by Peter Scholtes, Brian Joiner, and Barbara Streibel
• A Business and Its Belief by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
• Lucky or Smart? by Bo Peabody
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
• Thinkertoys by Michael Michalko
• More Than You Know by Michael J. Mauboussin