Books You Need

Books You Need

Your Competitive Advantages from your books:

1. When you assimilate and apply the knowledge generated by each of these authors, expect to improve your Business Intelligence Quotient -- your Business IQ -- by about one point for each of these key books. That gives you a materially significant competitive advantage.

2. Many people in business buy -- but don't read --books. That's their loss -- your opportunity. But never underestimate the gifted few who were born with such exceptional business aptitudes that they have no need to read about business. They can eat your lunch.

3. For a fistful of dollars these authors give you several centuries, in aggregate, of their hard thinking. Make sure you take advantage of it. Most of the mistakes that are made in business have been made before and are well documented. No need to find it out yourself all over again through your own experience -- that's far too slow and it can be lethally expensive.

Click one of these five links below to jump to a list of the five key books of that module:

Knowing Yourself

Effective Competitor

Higher Performance People

Efficient System

Attractive Business Unit

Click any author in these tables below to jump to our review of that specific KSF book:


1.	Knowing Yourself

1.1	Born That Way: Genes Behavior Personality
	William Wright

1.2	Discovering Your Career in Business
	Timothy Butler and James Waldroop

1.3	The Human Side of Enterprise
	Douglas McGregor

1.4	Networking for Success:
	The NLP Approach to a Key Business and Social Skill
	Carol Harris

1.5	The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
	Max Weber
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2.	Higher Performance People

2.1	The Human Equation
	Building Profits by Putting People First
	Jeffrey Pfeffer

2.2	Maximum Success
	Changing The 12 Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead
	James Waldroop and Timothy Butler

2.3	Loyalty Rules!
	How Today's Leaders Build Lasting Relationships
	Frederick F. Reichheld

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2.5	Human Resource Management
	Gaining a Competitive Advantage
	Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, Wright
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3.	Attractive Business Unit

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4.	Effective Competitor

4.1	Business Criteria for Performance Excellence
	National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

4.2	Competing for the Future
	Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad

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5.	Efficient System

5.1	The E Myth Revisited
	Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What To Do About It
	Michael E. Gerber

5.2	Work Organization and Ergonomics
	Vittorio Di Martino and Nigel Corlett

5.3	Activity-Based Cost Management - Making It Work:
	A Manager's Guide to Implementing and Sustaining an Effective ABC System
	Gary Cokins

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