Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Recommended Summer Reading

The summer season is a great time for all of us to catch up on reading and I wanted to recommend a few business 'classics' that all of us should read and even re-read.  Here is the list and the library location and call number:

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (MCOB 74.P8L4)
The Peter Principle by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull (UL 6231.M2 P4)
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher (UL BF 637.N4 F57)
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (UL 74.P8 P7)
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team:  a leadership fable by Lencioni (UL 66.2456)
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt (UL 9510.9.G64 G6)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (UL PS 3535.A547 A84)
Built to Last by Jim Collins (MCOB Media HF 5386.C735)
Good to Great by Jim Collins (MCOB Media HD 57.7.C645)
Men and Women of the Corporation by Rosabeth Moss Katner (UL 58.7.K36)
In Search of Excellence by Thomas J. Peters (UL HD 70.U5 P424)
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith (UL 171.G14)
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (MCOB Media BF 448.G53)
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (UL 1033.G53)
The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb (MCOB Q375.T35)

So many more but these titles never grow old for those in business!