100 Best Business Books of All Time?

Business
list mixes Covey with Seuss - JSOnline

There’s a new book I saw at the airport the other day, a
compilation of short summaries of the “Best 100″ business books of
all time:

The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They
Matter, and How They Can Help You

I’m a big reader (and a
little writer…. so a book about books is pretty
appealing!

Inspired by
the list posted here, I present the list with my annotations…
which books are YOUR favorites? I need to re-read
Leadership Is an Art by Max Depree,
which I first read in high school because my dad had it in the
house. What a powerful book. Between that and Dr. Deming’s
“Out
of the Crisis” being so
influential, it’s no wonder I’m often the “square peg” in a
traditional organization.

Which books would you avoid at all costs? For me, the “avoid” is
“Execution” by Bossidy for reasons both rational and emotional.

BOOKS IN THE 100
BEST…that I have read or
want to
read:

• Flow by
  Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
• Getting
  Things Done by David
  Allen
• The Effective
  Executive by Peter Drucker
• How to Be a Star at
  Work by Robert E. Kelley
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective
  People by Stephen R.
  Covey
• How to Win Friends & Influence
  People by Dale Carnegie
• Swim with the Sharks
  Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey B.
  Mackay
  
• The Power of
  Intuition by Gary Klein
• What Should I Do with
  My Life? by Po Bronson
• Oh, the Places You’ll
  Go by Dr.
  Seuss/Theodore Geisel
• Chasing
  Daylight by Eugene O’Kell
• On Becoming a
  Leader by Warren Bennis
• The Leadership
  Moment by Michael Useem
• The Leadership
  Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
• Leadership
  Is an Art by Max De
  Pree
• The Radical
  Leap by Steve Farber
• Control Your Destiny
  or Someone Else Will by Tichy and Sherman
• Leading
  Change by John P.
  Kotter
• Questions of
  Character by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
• The Story
  Factor by Annette
  Simmons
• Never Give In!
  Speeches by Winston Churchill
• In Search of
  Excellence by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman,
  Jr.
• Good
  to Great by Jim
  Collins
• The Innovator’s
  Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• Only
  the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S.
  Grove
• Who Says Elephants
  Can’t Dance? by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
• Discovering the Soul
  of Service by Leonard Berry
• Execution
  by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• Competing
  for the Future by Gary Hamel and C. K.
  Prahalad
• Influence
  by Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
• Positioning
  by Al Ries and Jack Trout
• A
  New Brand World by Scott Bedbury with Stephen
  Fenichell
• Selling
  the Invisible by Harry
  Beckwith
• Zag by
  Marty Neumeier
• Crossing
  the Chasm by Geoffrey A.
  Moore
• Secrets of Closing
  the Sale by Zig Ziglar
• How to Become a
  Rainmaker by Jeffrey J. Fox
• Why
  We Buy by Paco
  Underhill
• The Experience
  Economy by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore
• Purple
  Cow by Seth
  Godin
• The Tipping
  Point by Malcolm Gladwell
• Naked
  Economics by Charles Wheelan
• Financial
  Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
• The Balanced
  Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
• The Essential
  Drucker by Peter Drucker
• Out
  of the Crisis by W. Edwards
  Deming
• Toyota
  Production System by Taiichi
  Ohno
• Reengineering
  the Corporation by Michael Hammer and
  James Champy
• The
  Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  and Jeff Cox
• The Great Game of
  Business by Jack Stack with Bo Burlingham
• First, Break all the
  Rules by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• Now, Discover Your
  Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald
  CliftonThe
  
• Knowing-Doing
  Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton
• The
  Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick
  Lencioni
• Six Thinking
  Hats by Edward De Bono
• Titan by
  Ron Chernow
• My
  Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan,
  Jr.
• The HP
  Way by David Packard
• Personal
  History by Katharine Graham
• Moments of
  Truth by Jan Carlzon
• Sam Walton: Made in
  America by Sam Walton with John Huey
• Losing My
  Virginity by Richard Branson
• The Art of the
  Start by Guy Kawasaki
• The
  E-Myth Revisited by Michael E.
  Gerber
• The Republic of
  Tea by Mel Ziegler, Patricia Ziegler, and Bill
  Rosenzweig
• The Partnership
  Charter by David Gage
• Growing a
  Business by Paul Hawken
• Guerrilla
  Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson
• The Monk and the
  Riddle Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback
• McDonald’s:
  Behind the Arches by John F. Love
• American
  Steel by Richard Preston
• The Force
  by David Dorsey
• The Smartest Guys in
  the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
• When Genius
  Failed by Roger Lowenstein
• Moneyball
  by Michael
  Lewis
• Orbiting the Giant
  Hairball by Gordon MacKenzie
• The Art of
  Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman
• Jump Start Your
  Business Brain by Doug Hall
• A
  Whack on the Side of the Head by Roger Von Oech
• The Creative
  Habit by Twyla Tharp
• The Art of
  Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin
  Zander
• The Age of
  Unreason by Charles Handy
• Out of
  Control by Kevin Kelly
• The Rise of the
  Creative Class by Richard Florida
• Emotional
  Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• Driven by
  Paul R. Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
• To Engineer is
  Human by Henry Petroski
• The Wisdom of
  Crowds by James Surowiecki
• Made
  to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan
  Heath
• The First 90
  Days by Michael Watkins
• Up the
  Organization by Robert Townsend
• Beyond the
  Core by Chris Zook
• Little Red Book of
  Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
• What the CEO Wants
  You to Know by Ram Charan
• The Team
  Handbook by Peter Scholtes, Brian Joiner, and Barbara
  Streibel
• A
  Business and Its Belief by Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
• Lucky or
  Smart? by Bo Peabody
• The
  Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L.
  Friedman
• Thinkertoys
  by Michael Michalko
• More Than You
  Know by Michael J. Mauboussin

What do you think
is missing from the list? What else should I put on my “To Read”
list?