Business Books I’d Like to Read
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- The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
- Purple Cow, Seth Godin
- Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
- Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good books, all. Full of advice about running companies, managing employees, growing fortunes, selling more, working smarter and getting better in general. I felt something was missing, though. Something along the lines of The Best Business Books Never Written. Here would be my top seven in that category:
- Those Heady Dot Com
Years,Year, Days, by The Pets.com Sock Puppet - The, Oh, I Don’t Know, 2 or 3 Habits of Mildly Effective People, by The guy who did that thing once
- Create Viral Videos at Home for Fun and Profit, by Paris Hilton
- My Life at the Tip (of the Pyramid), by Bernie Madoff
- My Wallet is the World’s 17th Largest Economy, by Warren Buffett
- Why’s Everyone So Pissed?, an ongoing digital book by Bernie Ebbers (WorldCom), Jeffrey Skilling (Enron), Richard Scrushy (HealthSouth), Dennis Koslowski (Tyco), Wall Street, and many more to come

- The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
- Good to Great, Jim Collins
- The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
- Purple Cow, Seth Godin
- Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
- The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
- Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Good books, all. Full of advice about running companies, managing employees, growing fortunes, selling more, working smarter and getting better in general. I felt something was missing, though. Something along the lines of The Best Business Books Never Written. Here would be my top seven in that category:
- Those Heady Dot Com
Years,Year, Days, by The Pets.com Sock Puppet - The, Oh, I Don’t Know, 2 or 3 Habits of Mildly Effective People, by The guy who did that thing once
- Create Viral Videos at Home for Fun and Profit, by Paris Hilton
- My Life at the Tip (of the Pyramid), by Bernie Madoff
- My Wallet is the World’s 17th Largest Economy, by Warren Buffett
- Why’s Everyone So Pissed?, an ongoing digital book by Bernie Ebbers (WorldCom), Jeffrey Skilling (Enron), Richard Scrushy (HealthSouth), Dennis Koslowski (Tyco), Wall Street, and many more to come
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