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The 100 Best Business Books of All Time

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I think http://www.netmba.com is a good place to start

I'm actually attempting to read all 100 in a year. I've read 13 in just under a month.

So far I've enjoyed everything. It's not that bad if you get rid of TV.

I would say that the summaries/reviews in the book are just that, short/quick summaries or brief reviews. I'm sure with some of the books it would suffice to just read the review in "100 best," but I've really enjoyed a good handful of them so far.

The actual book is a great supplement to reading them.

So far I've only hit one that bored me to death (Innovator's Dilemma)

For example - Chasing The Light - Amazing Book. A Whack on the Side of the Head - Loved it. Purple Cow - Classic.

http://noahfleming.com/blog/100-business-books

Seems kind of light on the financial / accounting / capital allocation side of things.

Graham and Rockefeller's biographies do expose readers to these topics, but adding books like How to Read a Financial Report and the Accounting Game would be helpful to any entrepreneur.

Financial Intelligence is the best book we found for teaching managers (or anyone really) accounting without all the crazy talk of credits and debits. But I am going to definitely check out both of the titles you mention.

This isn't on the list, but I highly recommend reading 'The Leader Who Had No Title' by Robin Sharma. It's a leadership book that will keep you grounded while in pursuit of success/wealth.

Worth the read!

Art of War? Anyone who posts an "of all time" list should be required to pick something at least a millenium old.

And something that will only appear 1000 years in the future.

In The 100 Best, we recommend another 200 or so other books through sidebars and additional recommendations at the end of the summaries. Art of War appears on page 199 with The Price, The Origin of Species, and The Wealth of Nations. We kept the primary list to books that had been written in the last 100 years.

ok first of all 100 is a LOT. that will take you 4 years if you really work hard at reading all of those.

second, why isn't 4 steps to the epiphany on there?

That's why they made the book with summaries, so you can read the summaries and decide which books you want to read in full.

Where's Rework?

The book came out in 2009 and was written in 2007. Most books were at least five years ago. Our only exception was Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

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