Over the years FR has had fantastic thread conversations about great books of various types, i.e.
100 most influential books of all time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179639/posts
Military History and Strategy Reading List http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b6dc7786a95.htm
The Fifty BEST Books of the Century (What Was Your Favorite?) http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3b6490d83502.htm
I thought this might join this list of good threads.
Why do the makers of these lists always have to include one oddball pick to show they're trying to be different?
Silly book, unless you're one of those "adults" who reads kids' books but hasn't gotten around to the classics.
I would suggest a good library of exposes of business fraud. Equity Funding, Homestake Oil, Penn Square Bank, Dreyfuss Securities, Enron, Worldcom.
I don’t see anything here form Ludwig Von Mises. An incomplete list to put it kindly. Atlas Shrugged is not so much a primer on Economics as a warning of what will occur if we ignore history.
Voted comic book of the year by all the leftest of Venezuela
Wealth of Nations?
Winning Through Intimidation?
The single most under-appreciated economic text in recent history. A transcendant work.
He observed, learned wrote about and applied his knowledge in a stellar career which culminated in his promotion to CEO of New Jersey Bel!!!!
On retirement he was accepted to the faculty of Harvard Business School where he taught the lessons that he had compiled in his work and book. He defined the the terms "efficient" and "effective" which were key to his thesis. His students produced case studies which became the foundation of modern Organization Behavior and Administration!,(OB&A). When I received my MBA from SMU, (Dean's List BTW), I had the good fortune to have a professor who had studied at Prof Barnard's knee.
I attended SMU in '78 and the "One Minute Manager" was riding high as well. Considering some of the "mess" that I've seen in the workforce today, both these books would be worth the read.
At my graduation Stanley Marcus, (of Nieman and Marcus fame) was our keynote speaker. For many years, until his death he published a weekly column which peated and repeated his core management belief.
The Customer ALWAYS comes first
Excellent! I’ve been looking forward to wading into some of this recently.... :)
Any of Warren Bennis’ books on leadership.
I found another one this week at Powell’s in Portland....(I’m an MBA, btw).....it’s title is “The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t” by Robert I. Sutton.