Growing Businesses & Business Transitions
Poor Charlie's Almanac, Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Forward by Warren Buffett (The Boys from Berkshire Hathaway)
Iaccoca – Iaccoca (Past CEO of Chrysler)
Going For It –Kiam (Past CEO of Remington)
Pour Your Heart Into It –Schultz (CEO of Starbucks)
Straight From The Gut –Welch (Past CEO of General Electric)
Be My Guest –Hilton (Past CEO of Hilton Hotels)
The Road Ahead –Gates (Past CEO of Microsoft)
Sam Walton: Made In America –Walton (Past CEO of Wal-Mart)
Swim with the Sharks - McKay (CEO of McKay Envelop)
The Nordstrom Way –McCarthy
Microsoft Secrets –Cusumano/Selby
Transitions-Bridges
Thriving On Chaos -Peters
The 110% Solution -McCormack
Succeeding –Templeton (Sir Templton)
The Customer Driven Company -Whiteley
Letters Of A Business Man To His Son –Ward
The Spirit Of Enterprise – Gilder
Growing Pains – Flamholtz
Managing The Future –Tucker
In Search Of Excellence –Peters/Waterman
Titans –Newman
Optimizing Your Business – Abraham
Business Owner Transitions – U of C
Good to Great – Collins
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck
The John Deere Way: Performance that Endures by David Magee
Your Million Dollar System by Ronald Coleman
David Rockefeller: Memoirs by David Rockefeller
The Definitive Drucker - Edersheim
Business Strategies and Tactics
The Art of War, Sun Tse (Forward by Clavell)
KingRat –Clavell
TaiPan –Clavell
Shogun –Clavell
Noble House - Clavell
Life And Death On The Corporate Battle Field –Solman/Friedman
Leading the Revolution – Hamel
The World is Flat - Thomas L. Friedman
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
The Next Great Bubble Boom: How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in History: 2006-2010 by Harry S. Dent
BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future, John Naisbitt
Investing
The Intelligent Investor –Graham
Wit And Wisdom -Buffet
The Wealthy Barber –Chilton
Men Of Property -Goldenberg
Canada’s 50 Best Stocks -Francis
The Warren Buffet Portfolio -Hagstrom
The Millionaire Next Door –Stanly/Danko
The Millionaire Mind –Stanley
Economics & Finance
Economics -Lipsey/Sparks/Stiener
The Pig And The Python –Cork/Lightstone
The Great Boom Ahead –Dent
The Roaring 2000’s –Dent
Natural Capitalism –Hawking/Lovins
How To Reduce Taxes -Sells
Personal Finance For Canadians -Brown
Financial Self Defense –Givens
Wealth Without Risk For Canadians –Givens
Your Money And How To Keep It –Stoddart
Stop Buying Mutual Funds –Heinzel
Boom, Bust And Echo –Foot
Age Wave - Dychtwald
Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Communication and Human Behavior
Ordering Your Private World -Macdonald
Chicken Soup For The Soul -Confield/Hanson
Attitudes -Schuller
Re Framing -Bandler/Grinder
Solutions -Cameron/Bandler
Using Your Brain -Bandler
Frogs Into Princesses -Bandler/Grinder
Neuro Linguistic programming – Bandler/Grinder
Dare To Discipline -Dobson
3 Steps To A Strong Family -Eyre
Raising Positive Kids In A Negative World -Ziglar
Wonder Of Boys -Gurian
Fatherhood -Cosby
Strike The Original Match -Swindoll
The Parenting Challenge, Behavior 6-12 -Rincover
What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew -Dobson
Classroom Magic -Lloyd
Technical Communication -Dagher
What’s My Type? –Hurley/Dobson
Hiring Smart –Mornel
Psycho-Cybernetics And Self-Fulfillment –Maltz
Awake The Giant Within –Robbins
Word Power Made Easy –Lewio
Reading People – Dimitrius
Mending Broken Children –Flaro
Communication - Lischeron
Behavioral Insights For Supervison -Reber/Van Guilder
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Inspiration, Motivation, Education
Survivor Personality - Siebert
Holy Bible
The Way
The Parenting Bible
The Living Bible
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People –Covey
The Power Of Positive Thinking –Peale
Confessions Of A Happy Christian –Ziglar
Be An Extraordinary Person In An Ordinary World –Schuller
How To Win Friends And Influence People –Carnegie
Mega Memory –Trudeau
Maximize Your Memory –Simon/Schuster
Over The Top –Ziglar
Think And Grow Rich –Hill
See You At The Top –Ziglar
When Smart People Fail, Hyatt/Gottlieb
Mega Memory –Trudeau
Mega Math –Trudeau/Flansburg
Mega Speed Reading –Trudeau/Berg
Your Secrete Wealth –Abraham
1001 Ways To Reward Employees –Nelson
How To Stay Alive In The Woods -Angier
Secretes Of Warmth -Weiss
N.O.L.S. Wilderness Guide -Simer/Sulivan
Snow Camping -Creore
Inside Outward Bound –Wilson
Surviving Denali –Waterman (also known as Mount McKinley)
Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ by Daniel Goleman and Barrett Whitener
Sales & Negotiating & Presentation
Relationship Selling – Audio Series
Secretes Of Closing The Sale -Ziglar
50 Powerful Ideas For Keeping Customers –Timm
Customers For Life -Sewell/Brown
How To Close Every Sale –Girard
Sur/Petition –Bono
Professional Selling from A to Z – Audio Tape Series
Subliminal Selling – Audio Tape Series
Negotiating – Audio Tape Series
How to Give Exceptional Customer Service - Ford
Secretes Of Power Presentations –Bender
The Complete Toast Master –Prochnow
Technically Write -Blicque
Getting to Yes - Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton
Marketing
To Engineer Is Human -Petroski
The Evolution Of Useful Things -Petroski
Foundations Of Marketing - Kurtz
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries and Jack Trout
The New Positioning -Trout
Dig Your Well Before Your Thirsty –Mackay
The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding –Ries
Bottom Up Marketing –Ries/Trout
Horse Sense –Ries/Trout
The Project 50 –Peters
The Brand You 50 –Peters
Differentiate Or Die –Trout/Rivkin
The Luck Factor –Tracy
EVEolution – Popcorn
The Fall of Advertising & Rise of PR – Ries
Is There Anybody Out There? - Getting Noticed - Nathan King
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Leadership
Leaders –Bennis/Nanus
Powell on Leadership – Powell (General Collin Powell)
Leadership – Giuliani (Past Mayor of New York)
Lead The Field –Nightingale
Leadership – Peters
Their Finest Hour – Churchill (Sir Winston Churchill) – just started
Profiles in Courage – Kennedy (JFK) – next on the list
Management
The E-Myth – Gerber
The E-Myth Revisited– Gerber
The E-Myth Manager - Gerber
The Quadrant Solution –Stevens/Cox
Liberation Management –Peters
Running A Foreign Business In Japan –Kaisha
13 Fatal Errors Managers Make –Brown
First Things First –Covey/Merril/Merril
The Greatest Management Principle In The World –Leboeuf Phd
The Management Of Time –McKay
Putting The One Minute Manager To Work –Blanchard/Larber
Hardball –Shook
Other
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