The six greatest business books of all time - according to The Economist. What is yours?
The Economist has just published its list of the top 6 business books of all time.
Huge and deserved congratulations to Business of Software 2011 speaker Professor Clayton Christensen who makes the list for his seminal, 'Innovator's Dilemma'.
"Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997) introduced one of the most influential modern business ideas—disruptive innovation—and proved that high academic theory need not be a disadvantage in a book aimed at the general reader. Mr Christensen showed that great companies can fail despite doing everything right: even as they listen to their customers and invest heavily in their most productive technologies, their markets can be destroyed by radical new technologies." Aiming High, The Economist
It is a great read and it still astonishes me that I meet entrepreneurs that haven't read it - a great source of insight and inspiration. Buy it from Amazon - The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
The six books picked by The Economist are:
- My Years with General Motors, Alfred Sloan, 1964
The Organisation Man
, William Whyte, 1956
- Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (Drucker series)
, Peter Drucker, 1973
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-run Companies, Tom Peters & Robert Waterman, 1982
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits, C.K. Prahalad, 2004
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Professor Clayton Christensen, 1997
What is the book that has made the single biggest impact on your business life?
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Well, Sloan knew the teorii, yes, he was unsuccessfull manager himselves, and the greates writer about management books
I just needed to share this, since it is greate exmpale
that bad experiences (bad manager) does not mean you cannot be the best ever writer of management books :)
Posted by: web desigenr Sydney | July 11, 2011 at 04:49 PM
Business/Entrepreneurship:
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Rework by Jason Fried and Davind Heinemeir Hansson
Seth Godin Purple Cow, Linchpin, All Marketers are Liars
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink
Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution by Clayton Christensen
Do More Faster by Brad Feld and David Cohen
Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh
Four Steps to Epiphany by Steve Blank
Posted by: James Tye | July 14, 2011 at 12:55 PM
Fusion for Profit by Sharan Jagpal
Macroeconomic Policy by Farrokh Langdana
I read both of these in business school and keep re-reading them. Together they the the foundation for just about everything I do in my job as a marketer.
Posted by: John Tintera | July 14, 2011 at 05:09 PM