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Title	Author(s)	Year
It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven By Purpose	Roy M. Spence	2009	Order
War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War on the American Dream …	Lou Dobbs	2006	Order
Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards	Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, Barbara E. Taylor	2005	Order
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age	Daniel H. Pink	2005	Order
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant	W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne	2005	Order
Strategic Planning for Success: Aligning People, Performance, and Payoffs	Roger Kaufman, Hugh Oakley-Browne, Ryan Watkins, Doug Leigh	2003	Order
Why Smart Executives Fail – and what you can learn from their mistakes	Sydney Finkelstein	2003	Order
Execution: The discipline of Getting Things Done	Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan	2002	Order
Leadership	Rudolph W. Giuliani	2002	Order
The Leader’s Voice	Boyd Clarke and Ros Crossland	2002	Order
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t	James C. Collins	2001	Order
The Board Book: Making Your Corporate Board a Strategic Force in Your Company’s Success	Susan F. Shultz	2001	Order
Rethinking the Future: rethinking business, principles, competition, control, leadership, markets and the world	Rowan Gibson	1998	Order
Gung Ho: Turn On the People in Any Organization	Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles	1998	Order
New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World	Kevin Kelly	1998	Order
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies	James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras	1997	Order
The balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action	Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton	1996	Order
Reinventing the Business: Preparing Today’s Enterprise for Tomorrow’s Technology	Roy L. Harmon	1996	Order
The Low-Income Consumer: Adjusting the Balance of Exchange	Linda F. Alwitt and Thomas D. Donley	1996	Order
Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization	Warren Bennis and Robert Townsend	1995	Order
The One to One Future: Building Relationships Once Customer at a Time	Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D.	1993	Order
The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World	Peter Schwartz	1991	Order
If it ain’t broke… Break it! and other Unconventional Wisdom for a Changing Business World	Robert J. Kriegel and Louis Patler	1991	Order
Boards that make a difference	John Carver	1990	Order
Leadership is an Art	Max DePree	1989	Order
An Agenda for the 21st Century	Rushworth M. Kidder	1987	Order
Leadership and the One Minute Manager	Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D., and others	1985	Order
The Change Masters: Innovation for Productivity in the American Corporation	Rosabeth Moss Kanter	1983	Order
The Power of Ethical Management: Integrity Pays! You don’t have to cheat to win.	Kenneth Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale	1982	Order
Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life	Terrence E. Deal and Allan A. Kennedy	1982	Order
Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives	John Naisbitt	1982	Order
Theory Z: How American Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge	William Ouchi	1981	Order
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In	Roger Fisher and William Ury	1981	Order
Managing in Turbulent Times	Peter F. Drucker	1980	Order
Free to Choose	Milton and Rose Friedman	1980	Order
The Third Wave	Alvin Toffler	1980	Order
Future Shock	Alvin Toffler	1970	Order
Up the Organization: How to stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits	Robert Townsend	1970	Order