Business Management Books: Recommended for Your Personal Library
For those of us who have chosen careers in business, it makes sense to have all the business reference books you need on hand. Therefore, when I give speeches to MBA students at universities, I often recommend that they start building their business library now. In fact, my business library has between 3,500 and 4,000 books, and lately I’ve been going through it and giving away the books I no longer need since I’ve been retired.
I’m not releasing all the books yet, though, because they say the business itch runs deep and if it decides to show itself again, then I want to be ready. So with this truth said, let me recommend some of the books that stay on my personal business shelves that have to do with business management. If you don’t have these books, I recommend you consider them for yourself:
“The One-Minute Manager Gets Fit” by Kenneth Blanchard, PhD. – 1986
“Market Driven Management: Recipes for Survival in a Troubled World” – B. Charles Ames and James D. Hlavacek – 1989.
Market-driven management is the key to winning in the new fast-paced market paradigm, with fierce competition, global markets, and “exploding technologies and higher research and development costs,” the author states.
“Bringing IT to the Bottom Line: Managing for Incremental Gains” by Richard S. Sloma – 1987.
This book explains how business managers can grow their businesses and manage through goal setting, careful evaluation, and repetition of that process. It is not a get-rich-quick way of doing business and the author makes it clear that it requires discipline, but he assures the reader that this way works.
He talks a lot about business ‘profit’ planning, after all people are in business to make money. In the second half of the book, she devotes her time to the important task of measuring financial performance and how to use this knowledge to project, set new goals, and continue to refine the money-making process—the bottom line.
I wish you all the best in getting started and contributing the best business books to your business library, and I wish you continued success in your business career, whether you are a manager, corporate executive, or intrepid small business entrepreneur.