Business Books I’d Like to Read

By Mike Werling Mar 05, 2009

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

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The 100 Best Business Books of All Time Guerrilla Marketing The Art of Innovation The E-Myth Revisited Sam Walton: Made in America–My Story The Essential Drucker
  1. The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
  2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
  3. Good to Great, Jim Collins
  4. The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker
  5. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  6. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
  7. Purple Cow, Seth Godin
  8. Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  9. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
  10. 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:

  1. Those Heady Dot Com Years, Year, Days, by The Pets.com Sock Puppet
  2. The, Oh, I Don’t Know, 2 or 3 Habits of Mildly Effective People, by The guy who did that thing once
  3. Create Viral Videos at Home for Fun and Profit, by Paris Hilton
  4. My Life at the Tip (of the Pyramid), by Bernie Madoff
  5. My Wallet is the World’s 17th Largest Economy, by Warren Buffett
  6. 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
100-biz-books-all-time.jpg
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time Guerrilla Marketing The Art of Innovation The E-Myth Revisited Sam Walton: Made in America–My Story The Essential Drucker
  1. The Goal, Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
  2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
  3. Good to Great, Jim Collins
  4. The Effective Executive, Peter F. Drucker
  5. How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
  6. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
  7. Purple Cow, Seth Godin
  8. Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  9. The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
  10. 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:

  1. Those Heady Dot Com Years, Year, Days, by The Pets.com Sock Puppet
  2. The, Oh, I Don’t Know, 2 or 3 Habits of Mildly Effective People, by The guy who did that thing once
  3. Create Viral Videos at Home for Fun and Profit, by Paris Hilton
  4. My Life at the Tip (of the Pyramid), by Bernie Madoff
  5. My Wallet is the World’s 17th Largest Economy, by Warren Buffett
  6. 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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Mike Werling, the managing editor of Sea Magazine, has written for Entrepreneur.com, Senior Market Advisor, Boomer Market Advisor and Broadmoor magazines.

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