What books have made the biggest difference in how you think and act in the business world? Looking for a good book to read? Here’s my personal list:

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins, Jerry Porras
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
• The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers by Keith McFarland
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey
• The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker

VISION AND STRATEGY

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael Porter
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton Christensen

TEAM

• Leading Change by John Kotter
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge
• On Organizational Learning by Chris Argyris

ACTION

• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
• The Future of Management by Gary Hamel, Bill Breen
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

And more influential than any other – The Holy Scriptures

• The Holy Bible
• The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ

Enjoy!