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Vol. 25, Issue 15
Leaders at All Levels
Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis
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Ram Charan
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Working Together - James P. Lewis
The Definitive Drucker - Elizabeth Hass Edersheim
Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here - David Verklin and Bernice Kanner
The Writing on the Wall - Will Hutton
Driving Change - Mike Brewster and Frederick Dalzell
Seduced by Success - Robert J. Herbold
Branding Iron - Charles Hughes, William Jeanes, with Foreword by David E. Davis, Jr.
Billy, Alfred, and General Motors - William Pelfrey
The Giants of Sales - Tom Sant
Hershey - Michael D'Antonio
The Search - John Battelle
Tough Calls - Dick Martin
The Power of We - Jonathan Tisch
The Toyota Way - Jeffrey Liker
Big Change At Best Buy - Elizabeth Gibson and Andy Billings
Who Killed CBS? - Peter J. Boyer
Confessions of a PR Man - Robert J. Wood with Max Gunther
Saatchi & Saatchi - Philip Kleinman
The Ultimate Entrepreneur - Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar
Who's Afraid of Big Blue? - Regis McKenna
Breaking the Bank - Gary Hector
The Lore and Legends of Wall Street - Robert M. Sharp
Who Killed Maynard Keynes? - W. Carl Biven
Perot - Todd Mason
Father, Son & Co - Thomas J. Watson, Jr. and Peter Petre
Inside the Harvard Business School - David W. Ewing
The Big Six - Mark Stevens
Barons of the Sky - Wayne Biddle
Dave's Way - R. David Thomas
The Disney Touch - Ron Grover
Going for Broke - John Rothchild
Investing From the Heart - Jack A. Brill and Alan Reder
The Making of Microsoft - Daniel Ichbiah and Susan L. Knepper
Body and Soul - Anita Roddick
The Domino Effect - Donald J. Vlcek, Jr. with Jeffrey P. Davidson
Hypergrowth - H. Skip Weitzen Foreword by Gary DiCamillo, President U.S. Power Tools, Black & Decker Corporation
The Nissan Report - Steve Barnett, editor
The New GE - Robert Slater
Murdoch - William Shawcross
Overnight Success - Vance Trimble
For God, Country and Coca-Cola - Mark Pendergrast
Big Blues - Paul Carroll
Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will - Noel M. Tichy and Stratford Sherman
It Ain't as Easy as It Looks - Porter Bibb
Master of the Game - Connie Bruck
Ben & Jerry's - Fred Chicoe Lager, Foreward by Jerry
Buffett - Roger Lowenstein
Fidelity's World - Diana B. Henriques
Microsoft Secrets - Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby
Wriston - Phillip L. Zweig
Corporate Comeback - Robert H. Miles with Foreword by Gil Amelio
The Renaissance of American Steel - Roger S. Ahlbrandt and Richard J. Fruehan
Apple - Jim Carlton
I'd Like The World To Buy A Coke - David Greising
Powered by Honda - Dave Nelson, Rick Mayo, and Patricia Moody
From Worst to First - Gordon Bethune with Scott Huler
What Works - Richard Ault, Richard Walton, and Mark Childers, with Foreword by Jon R. Katzenbach
aol.com - Kara Swisher
Guts - Robert A. Lutz
In Sam We Trust - Bob Ortega
Pushing the Envelope - Harvey Mackay
Comeback - Martin Puris
Discovering the Soul of Service - Leonard L. Berry
The Emperors of Chocolate - Joel Glenn Brenner
Built From Scratch - Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank, with Bob Andelman
A Traitor To His Class - Hillary Rosenberg
When Giants Stumble - Robert Sobel
Global Literacies - Robert Rosen, Patricia Digh, Marshall Singer, and Carl Phillips
Digital Rush - Jonathan Reed Aspatore with Alicia Abell
The Power of Gold - Peter L. Bernstein
The Nokia Revolution - Dan Steinbock
Welch - Janet Lowe
The Most Effective Organization In the U.S. - Ben Brown and Robert A. Watson
Survival Is Not Enough - Seth Godin
The Southwest Airlines Way - Jody Hoffer Gittell
The First Hundred Years Are the Toughest - Cecil C. Hoge, Sr.
Science and Corporate Strategy - David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Jr.
From Monopoly to Competition - George David Smith
Delta Air lines - Sidney F. Davis
Live Via Satellite - Anthony Michael Tedeschi
The Panasonic Way - Toshihiko Yamashita, translated by Frank Baldwin
Rupert Murdoch - Jerome Tuccille
Beatrice - Neil R. Gazel
Henry J. Kaiser - Albert P. Heaner
Hothouse Earth - John Gribbin
The Man Who Discovered Quality - Andrea Gabor
A Better Idea - Donald E. Petersen and John Hillkirk
CEO - Sandra L. Kurtzig with Tom Parker
Swoosh - J. B. Strasser and Laurie Becklund
Cargill - Wayne G. Broehl, Jr.
NUTS! - Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg, with Foreword by Tom Peters
Birds of Prey - Matthew Lynn
Pour Your Heart into It - Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang
The Hard Road to the Softer Side - Arthur C. Martinez with Charles Madigan
Business Strategy
EPIC Change - Timothy R. Clark
Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management - Bob Paladino
What the Customer Wants You to Know - Ram Charan
The Power of Body Language - Tonya Reiman
How - Dov Seidman
Mastering Alliance Strategy - James D. Bamford, Benjamin Gomes-Casseres, and Michael S. Robinson
Masters of Sales - Ivan R. Misner and Don Morgan
The Age of Speed - Vince Poscente
Firms of Endearment - Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, and Jagdish N. Sheth
The Definitive Drucker - Elizabeth Hass Edersheim
Influencer - Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, and Ron McMillan
The Writing on the Wall - Will Hutton
Driving Change - Mike Brewster and Frederick Dalzell
The Hamster Revolution - Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, and Tim Burress
Foreword by Ken Blanchard
Speed Lead - Kevan Hall
Mobilizing Minds - Lowell L. Bryan and Claudia I. Joyce
Truth - Lynn Upshaw
The Upside - Adrian J. Slywotzky and Karl Webber
No Problem - Alex Lowy
The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies - Jagdish N. Sheth
Global Diversity - Ernest Gundling and Anita Zanchettin
The Halo Effect - Phil Rosenzweig
The Road to Organic Growth - Edward D. Hess
The Strategy Paradox - Michael E. Raynor
The Triple Bottom Line - Andrew W. Savitz with Karl Weber
Seduced by Success - Robert J. Herbold
The Adversity Advantage - Paul G. Stoltz and Erik Weihenmayer
Foreword by Stephen R. Covey
Strategic Corporate Finance - Justin Pettit
Achieve Sales Excellence - Howard Stevens and Theodore Kinni
The Emerging Markets Century - Antoine van Agtmael
The Carrot Principle - Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
The Elegant Solution - Matthew E. May
Treasure Hunt - Michael J. Silverstein with John Butman
Trust Your Gut - Lynn A. Robinson
Kiss Theory Good Bye - Bob Prosen
Working With Americans - Allyson Stewart-Allen and Lanie Denslow
The Solution-Centric Organization - Keith M. Eades and Robert E. Kear
Why CEOs Fail - David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo
The Starfish and the Spider - Ori Brafman and Rod. A. Beckstrom
Purpose - Nikos Mourkogiannis with Foreword by Roger Fisher
The New American Workplace - James O'Toole, Edward E. Lawler III
The Innovation Killer - Cynthia Barton Rabe
The Must-Have Customer - Robert Gordman with Armin Brott
The Culture Code - Clotaire Rapaille
Brand Portfolio Strategy - David A. Aaker
The Well-Timed Strategy - Peter Navarro
The Enthusiastic Employee - David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael Irwin Meltzer
Small Giants - Bo Burlingham
Billy, Alfred, and General Motors - William Pelfrey
Built to Change - Edward E. Lawler III and Christopher G. Worley
Foreword by Jerry Porras
Making Strategy Work - Lawrence G. Hrebiniak
Power Mentoring - Ellen E. Ensher, Susan E. Murphy
The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning - Calhoun Wick, Roy Pollock, Andrew Jefferson, and Richard Flanagan
The Ten Faces of Innovation - Thomas Kelley, with Jonathan Littman
Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal? - Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr.
The Giants of Sales - Tom Sant
Tectonic Shift - Jagdish N. Sheth and Rajendra S. Sisodia
Foreword by Philip Kotler
Managing Global Accounts - Noel Capon, Dave Potter, and Fred Schindler
Satisfaction - Chris Denove and James D. Power IV
The Art of the Start - Guy Kawasaki
FutureThink - Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown
Bigger Isn't Always Better - Robert M. Tomasko
Competition Demystified - Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn
Tales From the Top - Graham Alexander
The 3 Financial Styles of Very Successful Leaders - E. Ted Prince
Working Globe Smart - Ernest Gundling
The Source of Success - Peter Georgescu
Lean Solutions - James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
Counter-Intuitive Marketing - Kevin J. Clancy and Peter C. Krieg
Flight Capital - David Heenan
Think Big, Act Small - Jason Jennings
Deals From Hell - Robert F. Bruner
Management Malpractice - Craig Hickman
Designing the Customer-Centric Organization: - Jay R. Galbraith
Time Mastery - John K. Clemens, Scott Dalrymple
Business Across Cultures - Fons Trompenaars, Peter Woolliams
The World Is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better From a Crisis - Ian I. Mitroff
The Value Factor - Mark Hurd, Lars Nyberg
China Inc. - Ted C. Fishman
Brand Sense - Martin Lindstrom
with Foreword by Philip Kotler
The Four Pillars of High Performance - Paul C. Light
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The Prime Solution - Jeff Thull
Coming to Concurrence - J. Walker Smith, Ann Clurman,
Craig Wood
Creativity in Virtual Teams - Jill Nemiro
In Search of Business Value - Robert McDowell and William L. Simon
Conquering Complexity in Your Business - Michael L. George and Stephen A. Wilson
The Power of We - Jonathan Tisch
Confidence - Rosebeth Moss Kanter
Navigating the Badlands - Mary O'Hara-Devereaux
Managers Not MBAs - Henry Mintzberg
The Power of the 2 x 2 Matrix - Alex Lowy and Phil Hood
How Great Decisions Get Made - Don Maruska
Winning At Retail - Willard N. Ander, Neil Z. Stern
Beyond Neutrality - Bernard S. Mayer
The Skilled Negotiator - Kathleen Kelley Reardon
Shaping the Future - William P. Belgard and Steven R. Rayner
The Toyota Way - Jeffrey Liker
Thinking Inside the Box - Kirk Cheyfitz
The Wisdom of Crowds - James Surowiecki
Reinventing Strategy - Willie Pietersen
Building A Knowledge-Driven Organization - Robert H. Buckman
Offshore Outsourcing - Marcia Robinson and Ravi Kalakota
Breakthrough - Bill Davidson
The Third Opinion - Saj-Nicole A. Joni
Lean Thinking - James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones
Angel Customers And Demon Customers - Larry Selden And Geoffrey Colvin
The Mirage of Global Markets - David Arnold
Big Change At Best Buy - Elizabeth Gibson and Andy Billings
Creating Customer Evangelists - Ben McConnell
Ageless Marketing - David B. Wolfe with Robert Snyder
The Customer Connection - John Guaspari
Trading Places - Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
Pioneering New Products - Edwin E. Bobrow and Dennis W. Shafer
Saatchi & Saatchi - Philip Kleinman
The Eagle and the Rising Sun - John K. Emmerson and Harrison M. Holland
From Baby Boom to Baby Bust - Martin M. Greller and David M. Nee
The Ultimate Entrepreneur - Glenn Rifkin and George Harrar
Who's Afraid of Big Blue? - Regis McKenna
Breaking the Bank - Gary Hector
Romancing the Brand - David N. Martin
American Business: A Two-Minute Warning - C. Jackson Grayson, Jr. and Carla O'Dell
China, Inc. - Roderck Mcleod
FutureScope - Joe Cappo
New Corporate Ventures - Ralph Alterowitz and Jon Zonderman
Keeping Customers for Life - Joan Koob Cannie with Donald Caplin
Service Management Effectiveness - David E. Bowen, Richard B. Chase, Thomas G. Cummings, and Associates
Gaishi - T. W. Kang
The Japan That Can Say No - Shintaro Ishihara
2020 Vision - Stan Davis and Bill Davidson
Rebirth of the Corporation - D. Quinn Mills
Winning Worldwide Strategies for Dominating Global Markets - Douglas Lamont
Bringing New Products to Market - John A. Hall
Creating Value for Customers - William A. Band
Euroquake - Daniel Burstein
Dave's Way - R. David Thomas
How To Keep Your Savings Safe - Walter L. Updegrave
The Change Riders - Gary D. Kissler
Tomorrow's Competition - Mack Hanan
The Making of Microsoft - Daniel Ichbiah and Susan L. Knepper
America and the New Economy - Anthony Patrick Carnevale
Body and Soul - Anita Roddick
Creating Strategic Leverage - Milind M. Lele
The Healthy Company - Robert H. Rosen, Ph.D. with Lisa Berger with Foreword by James A. Autry
Managing for the Future - Peter F. Drucker
A Rock and a Hard Place - Kent Hodgson
The Silverlake Project - Roy A. Bauer, Emilio Collar, Victor Tang with Jerry Wind and Patrick R. Houston
Transforming the Crisis Prone Organization - Thierry C. Pauchant and Ian I. Mitroff
Handbook of Business Valuation - Thomas L. West and Jeffrey D. Jones, editors
Juggernaut - Philip Glouchevitch
A Manager's Guide to Globalization - Stephen H. Rhinesmith with Foreword by John Naisbitt
Visionary Leadership - Burt Nanus with Foreword by Warren Bennis
Zaibatsu America - Robert L. Kearns with Foreword by Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
Flight of the Buffalo - James A. Belasco, Ralph C. Stayer
Rethinking the Corporation - Robert M. Tomasko
EcoManagement - Ernest Callenbach, Fritjof Capra, Lenore Goldman, R+diger Lutz, and Sandra Marburg
Networking With the Affluent and Their Advisors - Dr. Thomas J. Stanley
Collaborating To Compete - Joel Bleeke and David Ernst, editors, McKinsey & Company, Inc. Foreword by Kenichi Ohmae
It Ain't as Easy as It Looks - Porter Bibb
The Northbound Train - Karl Albrecht
The One to One Future - Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D.
Save Your Business a Bundle - Daniel Kehrer
The Inventive Organization - Jill Janov
Looking at the Sun - James Fallows
Master of the Game - Connie Bruck
The Value Network - Louis J. De Rose
Cross-Functional Teams - Glen M. Parker
Merchants of Vision - James E. Liebig
The Customer Is Usually Wrong - Fred E. Jandt
The Discipline of Market Leaders - Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
Implementing Supplier Partnerships - Timothy Van Mieghem
Managing Imitation Strategies - Steven P. Schnaars
Why Firms Succeed - John Kay
Fidelity's World - Diana B. Henriques
Microsoft Secrets - Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby
The Great Transition - James Martin
The Age of Heretics - Art Kleiner
Co-opetition - Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff
Getting Into Your Customer's Head - Kevin Davis with Foreword by Ken Blanchard
Creating an Open Book Organization - Thomas J. McCoy
Supply Chain Optimization - Charles C. Poirier and Stephen E. Reiter
Customer-Centered Growth - Richard Whiteley and Diane Hessan
Only the Paranoid Survive - Andrew S. Grove
The Second Curve - Ian Morrison
From the Ground Up - Edward E. Lawler III
Future Perfect - Stan Davis
Mean Business - Albert J. Dunlap with Bob Andelman
21st Century Corporate Board - Ralph D. Ward
The American Corporation Today - Carl Kaysen, Editor
Heads You Win - Quinn Spitzer and Ron Evans
Organizing Genius - Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman with Foreword by Charles Handy
The Renaissance of American Steel - Roger S. Ahlbrandt and Richard J. Fruehan
The 8 Practices of Exceptional Companies - Jac Fitz-Enz
Business Maharajas - Gita Piramal
The Service Profit Chain - James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger
Leading Corporate Transformation - Robert H. Miles
The Lean Enterprise - Dan Dimancescu, Peter Hines, and Nick Rich
Champions of Change - David A. Nadler
Learning from the Future - Liam Fahey and Robert M. Randall, Editors
Executive Teams - David Nadler, the Delta Consulting Group, and Janet L. Spencer
The World According to Peter Drucker - Jack Beatty
Blur - Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
Boards at Work - Ram Charan
Powered by Honda - Dave Nelson, Rick Mayo, and Patricia Moody
From Worst to First - Gordon Bethune with Scott Huler
Competitors - Liam Fahey
Every Business Is a Growth Business - Ram Charan and Noel M. Tichy
Guts - Robert A. Lutz
In Sam We Trust - Bob Ortega
Pushing the Envelope - Harvey Mackay
Smart Alliances - John R. Harbison and Peter Pekar, Jr.
Comeback - Martin Puris
Discovering the Soul of Service - Leonard L. Berry
The Emperors of Chocolate - Joel Glenn Brenner
When Giants Stumble - Robert Sobel
Silicon Gold Rush - Karen Southwick, Foreword by Geoffrey Moore
Trusted Partners - Jordan D. Lewis
Emotional Value - Janelle Barlow
The ROI of Human Capital - Jac Fitz-enz
Clients for Life - Jagdish Sheth and Andrew Sobel
Capitalize On Merger Chaos - Thomas M. Grubb & Robert B. Lamb
Driving Customer Equity - Roland T. Rust, Valarie A. Zeithaml, and Katherine N. Lemon
Culture.com - Peg C. Neuhauser, Ray Bender, and Kirk L. Stromberg
Digital Rush - Jonathan Reed Aspatore with Alicia Abell
How Digital Is Your Business? - Adrian J. Slywotzky and David J. Morrison
The Mind of the CEO - Jeffery E. Garten
Customer Winback - Jill Griffin and Michael W. Lowenstein Foreword by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, PhD
The EVA Challenge - Joel M. Stern and John S. Shiely with Irwin Ross
Digital Marketing - Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan
Managing Interactively - Mary E. Boone
ValueSpace - Banwari Mittal, PhD and Jagdish N. Sheth, PhD
One to One B2B - Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, PhD with Foreword by Geoffrey Moore
Lessons from the Future - Stan Davis
Customers Rule! - Roger Blackwell and Kristina Stephan
Partners.Com - Michael J. Cunningham
Free Agent Nation - Daniel H. Pink
Creative Destruction - Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan
Embracing Excellence - Franklin C. Ashby and Arthur R. Pell
The Agenda - Michael Hammer
The Rule of Three - Jagdish Sheth and Rajendra Sisodia
The Business of Innovation - Roger Bean and Russell W. Radford
Venture Catalyst - Donald L. Laurie
Radical E - Joel Kurtzman and Glenn Rifkin
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing - Thomas T. Nagle and Reed K. Holden
Beyond e - Stephen G. Diorio
A New Brand World - Scott Bedbury and Stephen Fenichell
High Performance HR - David S. Weiss
Competitor Targeting - Ian H. Gordon
The Phoenix Effect - Carter Pate and Harlan Platt
Leading with Knowledge - Richard C. Huseman, Ph.D. and Jon P. Goodman, Ph.D.
Changing Fortunes - Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer, and Frederick Dalzell
Why Decisions Fail - Paul C. Nutt
businessThink - Dave Marcum, Steve Smith, and Mahan Khalsa
Building the Brand-Driven Business - Scott M. Davis and Michael Dunn
Less Is More - Jason Jennings
X-Engineering the Corporation - James Champy
The Southwest Airlines Way - Jody Hoffer Gittell
The Value Profit Chain - James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger
Marketing Insights from A to Z - Philip Kotler
Cycles - Maddy Dychtwald
Enterprise Marketing Management - Dave Sutton and Tom Klein
Conquering Consumerspace - Michael R. Solomon
The First Hundred Years Are the Toughest - Cecil C. Hoge, Sr.
The Financial Behavior of Japanese Corporations - Robert Ballon and Iwao Tomita
Science and Corporate Strategy - David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith, Jr.
Competitiveness - L. William Seidman and Steven L. Skancke
Is Korea the Next Japan? - T. W. Kang
Six Timeless Marketing Blunders - William L. Shanklin
1992: Strategies for the Single Market - James W. Dudley
