Best Business Books of the Past 30 Years

Entrepreneur.com article " Novel Ideas" reveals their picks for the 9 best classic business books of the past 30 years--and why they're still relevant today.

For each book, the article describes

• Why it mattered
• Why it still matters
• What to ignore

The books on the list include:

• The One Minute Manager (HarperCollins, 1981) by Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
• Out of the Crisis (The MIT Press, 1982) by W. Edwards Deming
• In Search of Excellence (HarperBusiness Essentials, 1982) by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman
• Guerrilla Marketing (Houghton Mifflin, 1983) by Jay Conrad Levinson
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HarperBusiness, 1985) by Peter Drucker
• The E-Myth (HarperBusiness, 1985) by Michael Gerber
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press, 1989) by Stephen Covey
• Reengineering the Corporation (HarperBusiness, 1993) by Michael Hammer and James Champy
• Built to Last (HarperCollins, 1994) by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras

BOTTOMLINE: Interestingly enough, as a extensive compilation of business best practices, the top-rated business improvement book Six Disciplines for Excellence by CEO and founder Gary Harpst, refers to 7 of these 9 books (or to their authors).