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I asked business experts, professionals, and other folks to weigh in on what the top five MBA must reads are. If you would like to offer your own selections you may leave a comment below.
As you know, I am going through the Personal MBA program, and will be reviewing those books (in addition to the books suggested by you and these books on for consideration in our developing Social Publishing MBA program.
The Top Five MBA Books You MUST Read:
Read these first
Donald Mitchell, Professor, Rushmore University
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren.
- The Classic Guide to Better Writing by Rudolph Flesch.
- How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein
- The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
- The 2,000 Percent Solution (and The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook) by Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, and Robert Metz
David A. Fields, Managing Director,Ascendant Consulting, LLC
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Faber & Mazlish
- Influence, Cialdini
- Made to Stick, Heath & Heath
- Managerial Accounting, Various
Ron Nordone, Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business
- The World Is Flat – By Thomas L. Friedman
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World – By Alan Greenspan
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Kris Solie-Johnson, President, American Institute of Small Business
Ready, Fire Aim by Michael Masterson
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Jodi R. R. Smith, Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting
- Selling The Invisible by Harry Beckwith
- How To Work A Room by Susan Roane
- Illusions The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah
- How To Say It by Rosalie Maggio
- From Clueless To Class Act by Jodi R R Smith
Philip , The Weakonomist, Weakonomics.com
- The Ascent of Money
- The World is Flat
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded
- Predictably Irrationa
Paige Arnof-Fenn, Founder & CEO, Mavens & Moguls (Harvard MBA)
- How to win friends & influence people by Dale Carnegie
- The tipping point by Malcolm Gladwell
- Good to great by Jim Collins
- Competitive strategy by Michael Porter
- True North by Bill George
(No name provided) and Susan L. Colantuono, CEO and Founder, Leading Women
(Note: I put these recommendations together, so there are seven, not five)
- A Woman’s Guide to Successful Negotiating
- UP:Influence Power and the U Perspective: The Art of Getting What You Want
- Managers Not MBAs by Henry Mintzberg
- True North by Bill George
- The Future of Management by Gary Hamel
- What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
- Tough Choices by Carly Fiorina
Sarah McGee, Visual Changes Salon and Spa
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencione
- No Compromise Leadership by Neil Ducoff
- The Speed of Trust by Stephen Covey
- Question Behind the Question by John G. Miller
- Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham
Cale Smith, MBA
- The Definitive Drucker.
- The Essays of Warren Buffett
- Competitive Strategy.
- The E-Myth Revisited
- The Marketing Gurus
Kay Plantes, MIT-trained Economist and business strategy consultant.
- Beyond Price: Differentiate your company in ways that really matter.
Tonya Rochette, MBA
- Competing for Advantage
- The Kimchi Matter
- Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results
- Let My People Go Surfing
- Good to Great
Stephen Antisdel, Managing Director, AVID Commerce, LLC
- Competitive Strategy – Michael E. Porter.
- Competitive Advantage – Michael E. Porter.
- Execution – Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- The Black Swan – Nassim Hicholas Taleb
Sheryl Sacchitelli
- “The Goal.”
- Kotler on Marketing”
Brian Sommer, President Techventive
- “How Customers Think” by Zaltman
- “The Effective Executive” by Peter Drucker
- “The Discipline of Market Leaders” by Michael Treacy
- “Strategy Safari” by Mintzberg
- “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman
- “Bargaining Across Borders” by Dean Foster
David Wiggs , Hitch: Connecting Marketing Innovators
- Influence by Caldini: Great scientific book on the psychology of why we buy.
David Rose:
- Three Moves Ahead: What Chess Can Teach You About Business by Bob Rice
Lesley Cohen, H. Rose PR Group
- Innovation to the Core by Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson with and introduction by Gary Hamel
- Thinking about the Future, Guidelines for Strategic Foresight by various contributors edited by Andy Hines & Peter Bishop for Social Technologies
- Innovation Leaders by Innovaro
