Summer Reads

“What are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?”   So began Douglas McGregor in this 1960 management classic. It was a seemingly simple question he asked, yet it led to a fundamental revolution in...

Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech...

Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.Electrifying in its simplicity—like...

Essential reading for managers and leaders, this is the classic work on management, problem solving, quality control, and more—based on the famous theory, 14 Points for ManagementIn his classic Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming describes the...

The "Greatest Business Book of All Time" (Bloomsbury ), In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom, business school, and bedside table.   Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a diverse array of...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find...

The Art of Money Getting was written by P. T. Barnum, who is widely known as an important historical entrepreneur as founder of the famous traveling circus, but in this publication Barnum shares his knowledge of business and teaches readers how to be...

A native of Scotland, Andrew Carnegie emigrated to Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in his youth and through voracious reading and personal initiative became one of the richest men in American history. His autobiography recounts the real-life, rags-to-riches...

The enlightening memoir of the industrialist as famous for his philanthropy as for his fortune. His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him “St. Andrew.” British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him an “example” for the wealthy. Such terms seldom apply...

THE NEW QUESTIONTen years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,...

"John Kay tells a fast-paced detective story as he searches for the surprising secret to success...Brilliant." - Tim Harford, author of The Logic of Life In this revolutionary book, economist John Kay proves a notion that feels at once paradoxical and...

Nearly all of the great success stories of the twentieth century—right up to the present day—are stories of simplifying.Over the last 40 years Richard Koch has worked to uncover the simple principles and strategies behind every successful business. With...

From one of the world’s most admired business leaders, here is a remarkable book that will forever change the way you think about management.The meteoric rise of UK supermarket chain Tesco from humble beginnings to its current status as one of the...

Stop pushing products—and start cultivating relationships with the right customers. If you read nothing else on marketing that delivers competitive advantage, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business...

From Gallup: a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people follow.More than a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. Since then,...

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT • “One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”—Harvard Business Review This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s...

(Available after 3-20 days)At the age of twenty-five, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw partnered with an Irish entrepreneur, Leslie Auchincloss, to start Biocon India in a garage in Bengaluru. Armed with just a degree in beer making, this move to industrial enzymes...

(Available after 3-20 days)"Deliberately to stop growing is to suffocate. . . . I put no ceiling on progress."~Alfred P Sloan, Jr.Alfred P Sloan, Jr. began his career with General Motors little realizing that the automobile presented one of the greatest...

(Available after 3-20 days) President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost deal-maker.“I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If...

The classic, nationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword and afterword by the authors.When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General...