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BOOK (Author/s) Jack: Straight From the Gut (Jack Welch with John A Byrne) In Search of Excellence (Tom Peters and Robert Waterman) Iacocca:An Autobiography (Lee Iacocca ) Made in Japan (Akio Morita) Amazon.com: Get Big Fast (Robert Spector) Swimming Across (Andrew s. Grove) Sam Walton: Made in America: My Story (Sam Walton, John Huey) Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R.Covey) Pepsi to Apple: An Odyssey (John Sculley) Built to Last (James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras) Good to Great (Jim Collins) Competitive Advantage of Nations (Michael E. Porter) The Art of War (Sun Tzu) Rogue Trader (Nick Leeson) (A) Effective Executive (B) Managing for Results (C) Innovation & Entrepreneurship (D) Practice of Management (E) The Concept of Corporation (F) The Age of Discontinuity Only the Paranoid Survive The Rise and Fall of Great Powers The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton Christensen) The Innovator’s Solution (Clayton Christensen and Raynor) Machine that Changed the World (Womeck,Jones) Lean Thinking (For Operations Management: Womeck,Jones) Lexus and the Olive Tree (Thomas L.Friedman) Individualized Corporation (Bartlett & Ghoshal) Managing Across Borders (Bertlett & Ghoshal) The Quest for Value (Bennett Stewart) First, Break All the Rules (Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman) Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company (James C. Collins, William C.Lazier) The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker’s Essential Writings on Management ( Peter Ferdinand Drucker) Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Daniell Goleman et al) Now, Discover Your Strengths (Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton) Five Temptations of a CEO: a Leadership Fable (Patrick M. Lencioni ) Who Moved My Cheese (Spencer, M.D. Johnson, Kenneth H.Blanchard) Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s ( Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson) Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman) Reengineering the Corporation – A Manifesto for Business Revolution ( Michael Hammer) Managing Radical Change (Sumantra Ghoshal, Gita Piramal and Christopher A.Bartlett “The Goal” (Goldrat) 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (Al Ries & Jack Trout) NUTS (About South-West Airlines) Crossing the Chasm – Geoffrey Liars Poker (Michael Lewis) The New New Thing (Michael Lewis)

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My Years with General Motors ( Alfred P.Sloan) What Management Is (Joan Magretta) Barbarians at the Gate (Bryan Burrough and John Helyar) Every Business is a Growth Business (Ram Charan and Noel M.Tichy) Competing for the Future (Gary Hamel and C.K.Prahlad) The Future of Competition (C.K. Prahlad and Venkat Ramaswamy) Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi) Leading the Revolution (Gary Hamel) A Beautiful Mind (Sylvia Nasar) Snapshots From Hell: The Magic of an MBA (Peter Robinson) Every Street is Paved with Gold: The Road to Real Success (Kim Woo – Choong) Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance (Louis Gerstner Jr.) From Third World To First: The Singapore Story 1965 – 2000( Lee Kuan Yew) The Southwest Airlines Way (Jody Hoffer Gittell) Building Strong Brands (David A.Aaker) “Surely You’re Joking Mr.Feynman” ( Richard P. Feynman) FISH! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results (Stephen C.Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen) Sam: The Magic Genie (Brian Mayne) The Go-Getter (Peter B. Kyne) The Mind of the Strategist – The Art of Japanese Business (Kenichi Ohmae) The End of Detroit (Micheline Maynard) The Real Thing (Constance L.Hays) Losing My Virginity: An Autobiography (Richard Branson) 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st (Bill Emmott) The TOYOTA Way (Laker) THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE (Peter Senge) WINNING (Jack Welch with Suzy Welch) MANAGERS, NOT MBAs (Henry Mintzberg) *

DISNEY WAR (James B. Stewart) *

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FAST SECOND How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets ( Constantinos Markides and Paul Geroski) *

FREAKONOMICS – A Rogue Economist Explains the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner) *

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THE SEARCH – How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (John Battelle) *

THE TRAVAILS OF A T-SHIRT IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY – An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade (Pietra Rivoli) *

THE WORLD IS FLAT A Brief History of the Twentieth Century (Thomas L. Friedman) ‘WHAT MANAGEMENT IS – HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IT’S EVERYONE’ – Joan Magretta ( In collaboration with Nan Stone) ‘THE UNDER COVER ECONOMIST ‘ – TIM HARFORD

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