For each book, the article describes
- Why it mattered
- Why it still matters
- What to ignore
- 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).
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