Quick Survey - What is your recommended business book?

7. October 2007, 3:48 UhrSurveysyaronblog

I had just published the following question in LinkedIn:

What is your recommended business book?

In the surveys posts I will present relevant questions for the VC and PC community, gather answers and present them with the names of the answerers.  So… this is my first survey. You are welcome to send a comment for this post and share your own preferred business books!  Half an hour later i got the first answers (see below). The full survey with tens of recommendations will be published during the upcoming week. 

Chris Grayson: ·         The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson ’The Long Tail…belongs on your shelf between The Tipping Point and Freakonomics, offering great insight into the next generation of internet revolution and opportunity.’  Reed Hastings, CEO Netflix; ‘A brilliant and important book - as i-intelligent as it is e-entertaining.’ Robert Thomson, The Times

 Ron DeLong: ·         It Takes a CEO·         Habits of Visionary Companies

·         Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box

 Henrik L. Appelquist: I recommend you to read those books for Sales Managers:

·         The Complete Guide to accelerating sales force performance  by Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha and Greggor A. Zoltners

·         The Challenge of Complexity  by Ralph Stacy - Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics

 David Belder:

·         Jack Welch on Leadership By Robert Slater
 

Brian Carroll:  ·         Good to Great, by Jim Collins. Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. The good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years.·           The Luck Factor, by Richard Wiseman. Dr. Wiseman, a British Psychologist spent 8 years investigating the differences in behaviors and attitudes between people who described themselves as lucky or unlucky. He created a set of exercises that he calls “Luck School” to teach these behaviors and attitudes. Dr. Wiseman was invited to teach “Luck

School” at a British high-tech firm in 2003. The company then tracked results for the next five months. Revenues rose every month, including one month when revenues rose by 20%. By the end of the five months, revenues were restored to the level of 2000, before the tech bubble burst. Revenues have continued to rise since then. The Managing Director of the company has described ”

Luck

School” as the best course he’s ever given his employees.Eran Eizik:

·         Built to last is defiantly my favorite one!!!

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1 comment:

  1. Jonathan Yapp, 9. October 2007, 15:29

    the effective executive, by peter drucker

     

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