Must Read books for a practicing Manager

1. Immediate Reads 1.1. Winning: Jack Welch 1.2. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Stephen Covey 1.3. In Search of Excellence: Tom Peters, Robert Waterman 1.4. On Becoming A Leader : Warren Bennis 1.5. How to Win Friends & Influence People: Dale Carnegie 1.6. Good to Great: Jim Collins 1.7. Execution- The Discipline Of Getting Things Done: Ram Charan 2. Must Reads on Leadership/General Management 2.1. The One Minute Manager: Kenneth Blanchard and MD Spencer Johnson 2.2. Emotional Intelligence: Daniel Goleman 2.3. The Practice Of Management: Peter Drucker 2.4. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Mark McCormack 2.5. First, Break All The Rules: Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman 2.6. Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't: Ram Charan 2.7. The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation: Lafley, Ram Charan 3. Must Reads on Strategy 3.1. Art of war and 48 laws of Power: Robert Greene 3.2. Blue Ocean Strategy: W. Chan Kim, Rene Mauborgne 3.3. Competing For The Future: Gary Hamel and C K Prahalad 3.4. Competitive Strategy: Michael E. Porter 3.5. Alignment: Kaplan & Norton

4. Must Reads on Organizational/personal productivity 4.1. The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge 4.2. Built To Last - Jim Collins And Jerry I. Porras 4.3. Goal: Elihayu M. Goldratt 4.4. Liar's Poker: Michael Lewis 4.5. Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships: Eric Berne 4.6. Getting Things done When You Are Not in Charge: By Geoffrey Bellman

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5. Must Reads on Thinking 5.1. Lateral Thinking: Edward De Bono 5.2. Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell 5.3. Six Thinking Hats: Edward De Bono 6. Must Reads on Marketing 6.1. The Invisible Touch Harry Beckwith 6.2. Emotional Branding: The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People: Marc Gobe 6.3. Brand Failures: Matt Haig 7. Must Reads on Economics 7.1. Freakonomics: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 7.2. The Undercover Economist: Tim Harford 8. Must Read Biographies/Companies 8.1. Made in Japan: Akio Morita 8.2. Beyond the Last Blue Mountain: RM Lala 8.3. The Toyota Way: Jeffrey Liker 8.4. The Wal-Mart Effect: Charles Fishman 8.5. Simply Fly: Captain GR Gopinath 9. Must Read on Ethics 9.1. The Leadership Integrity Challenge: Assess and Facilitate Emotional Maturity: Edward Morler 9.2. The Difficulty of Being Good: Gurcharan Das 9.3. Osho Books on Upanishads 10. Must Reads on general understanding of the world 10.1. Blink: Malcolm Gladwell 10.2. Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell 10.3. Ecological Intelligence: Daniel Goleman 10.4. Guns, Germs and Steel: Jared Diamond 10.5. Collapse: Jared Diamond 10.6. A short history of nearly everything: Bill Bryson 10.7. India Unbound: Gurcharan Das 10.8. The Toyota Way: Jeffrey Liker 10.9. Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA: Peter Robinson 10.10. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: CK Prahalad 11. Other Magazines 11.1. Harvard Business Review 11.2. The Economist www.elementsakademia.com