I’m often asked what books I would recommend for Project Management, Personal Productivity, and Business Strategy. Here are a few of my favorites:
Project Management Books
The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every “Task” into a Project That Matters!, Tom Peters
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application, 37signals
The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life, Mike Krzyzewski
Business Strategy Books
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, Andrew S. Grove
Your Marketing Sucks, Mark Stevens
Good to Great - Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, Jim Collins
Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People, Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby
Body and Soul: Profits With Principles-The Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop, Anita Roddick
Personal Productivity Books
The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss
All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft: Inside Strategies to Help You Succeed, Julie Bick
Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day, Gina Trapani
The Art of Connecting - How to Overcome Differences, Build Rapport, and Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Claire Raines, Lara Ewing
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Jon Strickler // May 19, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Nice list. To personal productivity, I’d add Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive.
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timemanagementtraining // May 26, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Absolutely awesome list. That’s going to take me a few hours of work time tomorrow to sift through.
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