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Following are the starting group we elected for the title of this page. Our aim is to grow this list to 100 titles with the help of Infohatch.com friends. Please nominate your suggestions to topmanagementbooks@infohatch.com. Without further due, here are the first 46 in alphabetical order: (Click on title for an excerpt or review)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People    -    Stephen R. Covey

The Art of War    -    Sun Tzu

The Art of the Start    -    Guy Kawasaki

Barbarians at the Gate    -    Brian Burrough and John Elyar

Be Quick; But Don't Hurry    -    Andrew Hill and John Wooden

Built to Last    -    James Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Capital   -   Karl Marx

Competitive Strategy    -    Michael Porter

Emotional Intelligence    -    Daniel Goleman

The Fifth Discipline    -    Peter Senge

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team    -    Patrick Lencioni

Getting Things Done    -    David Allen

Getting to Yes    -    Roger Fisher

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't    -    Jim Collins

The Greatest Salesman in the World    -    Og Mandino

Guerrilla Marketing    -    Jay Conrad Levinson

How to Win Friends and Influence People   -   Dale Carnegie

Innovation in Marketing   -   Theodore Levitt

In Search of Excellence   -   Tom Peters and Robert Waterman

It's Your Ship: Management Techniques From the Best Damn Ship in the Navy    -    Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

The Last Lecture    -    Randy Pausch

Leading Change    -    John P. Kotter

Liar's Poker    -    Michael Lewis

Made in Japan   -   Akio Morita

The Magic of Thinking Big    -    David J. Schwartz

Managing    -    Harold Geneen

Motivation and Personality    -    Abraham Maslow

Never Eat Alone    -    Keith Ferrazzi

No Logo    -    Naomi Klein

The One Minute Manager   -   Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

Only the Paranoid Survive    -    Andrew S. Grove

Out of the Crisis    -    W. Edward Deming

The Peter Principle   -   Laurence Peter

Planning for Quality   -   Joseph Juran

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind    -    Al Ries and Jack Trout

The Practice of Management    -    Peter Drucker

The Prince    -    Niccolo Machiavelli

The Principles of Scientific Management    -    Frederick W. Taylor

Reengineering the Corporation    -    James Champy

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning    -    Henry Mintzberg

The Third Wave   -   Alvin Toffler

Think and Grow Rich    -    Napoleon Hill

Tipping Point    -    Malcolm Gladwell

Trump Never Give Up    -    Donald J. Trump

What Got You Here Won't Get You There    -    Marshall Goldsmith

The Wealth of Nations   -   Adam Smith

Judgment - How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls by Noel M.Tichy and Warren G. Bennis Two titans of effective leadership have identified the fundamental essence of leadership as the ability to make consistently good judgment calls, especially when the stakes are high, information is limited and the right call is far from obvious. They clarify an often misunderstood concept that good judgment is an inborn trait. Instead, the authors show it's actually a skill that can be developed, refined and nurtured throughout an organization. Click to get this summary free!	Influencer by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler From the authors that brought you Crucial Confrontations comes their thought-provoking look at how anyone can become the type of influencers that are bringing about change in the world. Influencer takes readers on a journey across the globe, showing them how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. Click to get this summary free!
What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter People don’t realize that doing one annoying thing repeatedly may sabotage their otherwise golden career. Worse yet, they do not realize that it’s happening and it can be fixed. Goldsmith details the 20 habits that hold you back from the top rung of the corporate ladder. These are the most irritating interpersonal issues in the workplace. For each habit, he gives examples and practical solutions. He then describes the 21st habit, which stands separate from the other 20 habits –– not because it is a flaw, but because it is often the root of an annoying behavior. Click to get this summary free!	The 360-Degree Leader by John C. Maxwell Leadership expert John C. Maxwell shows you how to develop your influence from wherever you are in the organization by becoming a 360-degree leader. You can learn to lead up, lead across and lead down. He writes that only 360-degree leaders influence people at every level of the organization, and by helping others, they help themselves. He explains that becoming a 360-degree leader is within the reach of anyone who possesses average or better leadership skills and is willing to work at it. Click to get this summary free!
The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey with Rebecca R. Merrill Loss of trust will destroy the most successful business, the most thriving economy, the most influential leadership, the greatest friendship, the deepest love... On the other hand, if developed and leveraged, that one thing has the potential to create unparalleled success and prosperity in every dimension of life. The Five Waves of Trust model serves as a metaphor for how trust operates in our lives. Understand how to make trust actionable, including a look at the Four Cores of credibility and the 13 Behaviors of high-trust leaders. Click to get this summary free!	Click here to learn more about Soundview Executive Book Summaries and get these 5 summaries free with your subscription!

The Art of War    -    Sun Tzu

Excerpt: Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field. These are (1) The Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) The Commander; (5) Method and discipline. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that will they follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons. Earth comprises distances, great and small; danger and security; open ground and narrow passes; the chances of life and death. The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerely, benevolence, courage and strictness. By method and discipline are to be understood the marshalling of the army in its proper subdivisions.

Barbarians at the Gate    -    Brian Burrough and John Elyar

Review: The leveraged buyout of the RJR Nabisco Corporation for $25 billion is a landmark in American business history, a story of avarice on an epic scale. Burrough and Helyar are clearly fascinated with the personalities of the players in the deal and with the trappings of corporate wealth. The restless, flamboyant personality of Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, is portrayed as the key to the events that were to unfold. This book is both the biography of CEO Ross Johnson and an analysis of why the planned LBO (leveraged buyout) went awry. Johnson initiated the LBO as a cheap way to consolidate his standing-and lost everything. Barbarians at the Gate addresses both the financial and human aspects of investment banking.

Built to Last    -    James Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Review: Built to Last became an instant business classic. They set out to determine what's special about "visionary" companies--the Disneys, Wal-Marts, and Mercks, companies at the very top of their game that have demonstrated longevity and great brand image. The authors compare 18 "visionary" picks to a control group of "successful-but-second-rank" companies. Thus Disney is compared to Columbia Pictures, Ford to GM, and so on.
A central myth, according to the authors, is that visionary companies start with a great product and are pushed into the future by charismatic leaders. Usually false, Collins and Porras find. Much more important, and a much more telling line of demarcation between a wild success like 3M and an also-ran like Norton, is flexibility. 3M had no master plan, little structure, and no prima donnas. Instead it had an atmosphere in which bright people were not afraid to "try a lot of stuff and keep what works."

Capital   -   Karl Marx

Review: Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids some of the mistakes that have marred earlier versions and seeks to do justice to the literary qualities of the work. The introduction is by Ernest Mandel, author of Late Capitalism, one of the only comprehensive attempts to develop the theoretical legacy of Capital.

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