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The One Page Business Plan: Start With a Vision, Build a Company! 37 reviews
James T., Jr. Horan
One Page Business Plan Company, 1998
Excellent way to focus
+ Easy to Use and Thorough
+ Simple and does the job
+ A Wonderful Guideline
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Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems ... 10 reviews
Gary Harpst
Six Disciplines Publishing, 2008
Planning and Execution
+ An excellent pick for anyone looking to make their business venture an enduring success.
+ Holistic Approach Makes This A Winner
+ A Great Book for a Struggling Business Environment
+ The Persistence to Make the Hard Choices
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Now, Discover Your Strengths 330 reviews
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Free Press, 2001
Management tool
+ A Look in the Mirror
+ The good and the bad
Probably the best management and personnel development tool around! Four staff members were each given a copy to read and to follow the instructions for getting an analysis. Each was asked to bring the analysis for their annual job review. They expected the typical "this is good and that is bad" ...
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 954 reviews
Malcolm Gladwell
Hachette Audio, 2005
Fascinating book
+ Another Great Book for Gladwell
+ quite thought provoking
+ Let your unconscious pre-judge for you...
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Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization105 reviews
Ken Blanchard
William Morrow, 1997
Gung Ho is for real!
+ Outstanding book on how to manage people effectively
+ A Good Startng Point!
+ Simple Leadership More Management Information
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Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat (Agora Series)61 reviews
Michael Masterson
Wiley, 2008
One of the Best Entrepreneurship Books I've Ever Read
+ Motivational manual on entrepreneurial excellence
+ My Money is on Michael Masterson!
Frankly, I am baffled that anyone could write a negative review of this book. Have those people actually read it?
I am real-life entrepreneur with the real-life challenge of taking a business from nothing (when I started) to something great. Michael Masterson appealed to me for one very simple ...
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful196 reviews
Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
Hyperion, 2007
Like Dr. Marshall, this book is Outstanding !
+ A great tool for personal reflection and discovering your blindspots
+ Good and simple, the way it should be
+ Great read for those looking to succeed at work and at home!
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Left on Red: How to Ignite, Leverage and Build Visionary Organizations6 reviews
Bill Glynn
Wiley, 2008
Left on Red is the real deal
+ Are you a Lion or a Gazelle ?
+ Finally I can get into Billy G's brain!
+ Left on Red is truly a great find!
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The World Is Flat (The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century)1159 reviews
Thomas L. Friedman
Penguin Books, 2006
Read it or weep!
+ Not the easiest read, but an eye-opener
+ one of the best for human philosophy, value system we live.
+ The world will get rounder soon enough
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Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box202 reviews
The Arbinger Institute
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002
Go Beyond
+ The next generation
+ Leadership and Self-deception
+ Wonderfully thought provoking
+ Quick easy read which is unusual for this type of material. Profound
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't702 reviews
Jim Collins
Collins Business, 2001
Worth for its price
+ Good to Great
+ Good to Great review
I don't need much to write here as hundreds of people has written review for this book.
In simple terms the book is easy to read & understand. Analyze how best companies manage to retain their position by innovative & intelligent leadership. Research is sound & findings are really interesting. ...
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Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything, Revised and Expanded Edition1566 reviews
Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J. Levitt
William Morrow, 2006
Freakonomics
+ SPNG vs CVKG
+ Thought provoking Stats, Easy Reading
+ Freakonomics vs. Freedomnomics
+ Conventional Wisdom v. Levitt
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies148 reviews
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras
HarperCollins Publishers, 1997
The "Core Values" of Corporate Business of the Yesterday and Today
+ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
+ Built to Last
+ A Must Read Together With Good To Great
+ Stick to your core values!
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy791 reviews
Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
Pocket, 2000
Good Read
+ this book exceeded my expectations
+ Realistic Approach for Accumulating Wealth
Quite the eye-opener about how many supposedly rich people are actually being supported by their parents. I did think it had a lot of undertones about how being cheap, I mean frugal, was noble in its own right and there's nothing worth spending money on except charity and education. But it was ...
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Tuned In: Uncover the Extraordinary Opportunities That Lead to Business Breakthroughs19 reviews
Craig Stull, Phil Myers, ...
Wiley, 2008
Excellent introduction/summary for Pragmatic Marketing Principles
+ A Book for Every Marketer
+ It's all about "connections"
+ Tuned In
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How to Write a Business Plan8 reviews
Mike P. McKeever
NOLO, 2007
Easy steps for writing a business plan without need for software
+ It's a step-by-step primer no entrepreneur should be without!
+ Writing Bankable Business Plan
+ Almost Addictive
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die216 reviews
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
Made to Stick
+ Glued to Made to Stick
+ Fantastic job!
+ Made to stick...sticks out.
+ A "How To" create effective business communications
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Business Plans that Work2 reviews
Jeffry A Timmons, Andrew Zacharakis, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2004
Best small book on step-by-step Business Plans
This small book does a splendid job in explaining the business planning process more simple and uncomplicated than most books on business planning that often are too comprehensive and detailed - sometimes probably creating "paralysis by analysis" for the users.
The approach is a practical ...
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies148 reviews
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
Collins Business, 2004
The "Core Values" of Corporate Business of the Yesterday and Today
+ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
+ Built to Last
+ A Must Read Together With Good To Great
+ Stick to your core values!
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Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial ...288 reviews
Anthony Robbins
Free Press, 1992
Awaken The Giant Within
+ Worth Your Time?
+ Who can Argue with Success?
I have not finished the book but so far I have liked what I have read. He is funny, personnable, and yet he has a meaning behind the words of the book. He writes so you understand just what he is saying just like you were talking to him face to face.
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