I've read many business-related books, and I often refer to them in conversation or in articles here. Not every book is one I'd want to keep on my own library shelf. However, there are some business books I particularly recommend. Many are classics, one or two are less well-known today, but all have influenced me significantly or helped me better explain my own ideas. I hope you find them illuminating.
- Champy, Reengineering Management
- Christensen, The Innovator's Dilemma
- Collins, Good To Great
- Feldman & Spratt, Five Frogs On A Log
- Gower, The Complete Plain Words
- Hammer & Champy, Reengineering The Corporation
- Hope & Hope, Transforming The Bottom Line
- Johnson & Kaplan, Relevance Lost
- Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
- Jones & Womack, Lean Thinking
- Kaplan & Norton, The Strategy-Focused Organisation
- Kim & Mauborgne, Blue Ocean Strategy
- Liker, The Toyota Way
- Ries, The Lean Startup
- Rumelt, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
- Semler, Maverick
- Townsend, Further Up The Organisation
- Simon, Bilstein & Luby, Manage For Profit, Not For Market Share
- Simon, Hidden Champions Of The 21st Century
- Thomsett, Radical Project Management
- Treacy & Wiersma, The Discipline Of Market Leaders
- Allen, The British Industrial Revolution In Global Perspective
- Bentley, Innovation!
- Bellish, Making Peoples
- Butler-Bowden, 50 Economics Classics
- Butler-Bowden, 50 Politics Classics
- Fawcett, Liberalism, The Life Of An Idea
- Harford, The Undercover Economist
- Harford, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
- Hazlitt, Economics In One Lesson
- Hendy & Callaghan, Get Off The Grass
- Heywood, Politics
- Heywood, Political Ideologies
- Lanchester, How To Speak Money
- Spooner, The New Zealanders