The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books, by TIME magazine.

If I have to choose only one book out of 25 most influential business management book, I choose "The Essential of Drucker" . 

Because Drucker's hindsight, insight, and foresight for management have guided development of modern management theories and practice, I cannot avoid choosing Drucker's masterpiece.  

Jeonghwan (Philip) Choi. 

The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books

There's never a shortage of new books about how to be more effective in business. Most of them are forgettable, but here are 25 that changed the way we think about management — from the iconic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" to groundbreaking tomes like "Guerilla Marketing" and quick reads like the "The One Minute Manager".

 

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Full List

BUSINESS GUIDES

• The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
• Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors(1980), by Michael E. Porter
• Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber
• The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge
• First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins
• Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson
• How to Win Friends and Influence People(1936), by Dale Carnegie
• The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor
• The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen
• Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter
• On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis
• Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming
• My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
• The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
• Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People(1989), by Stephen R. Covey
• The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh
• Toyota Production System (1988), by Taiichi Ohno
• Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson