The Personal MBA

This week I discovered a great business discussion board called The Personal MBA. It is a wonderful resource for anyone who is interested in furthering the business education without spending a fortune. Check out there manifesto for more information. Their programs consists of 42 books and periodicals, a discussion board, and discussion groups. Below are their reading recommendations:

1. Mastery by George Leonard
   
2. Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton
   
3. Getting Things Done by David Allen
   
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
   
5. What the CEO Wants You to Know by Ram Charan
   
6. Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business by Ram Charan
   
7. On Competition by Michael Porter
   
8. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
   
9. Seeing What's Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
   
10. The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker
    
11. First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
    
12. The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham
    
13. The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
    
14. Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger
    
15. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers by Robert A. Cooke
    
16. Essentials of Accounting by Robert Newton Anthony and Leslie K. Pearlman
    
17. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox
    
18. Lean Thinking by James Womack & Daniel Jones
    
19. The Substance of Style by Virginia Postrel
    
20. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
    
21. Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
    
22. The Marketing Playbook by John Zagula & Richard Tong
    
23. The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
    
24. The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin
    
25. Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
    
26. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
    
27. How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
    
28. Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
    
29. The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
    
30. Flawless Consulting by Peter Block
    
31. Real Estate Principles for the New Economy by Norman Miller & David Geltner
    
32. Getting To Yes by Fisher, Ury, and Patton
    
33. Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer
    
34. A Primer on Business Ethics by Tibor Machan & James Chesher
    
35. Brand New by Nancy F. Koehn
    
36. American Business, 1920-2000 by Thomas K. McCraw, John H. Franklin, and A. S. Eisenstadt
    
37. The Little Book of Business Wisdom by Peter Krass (Editor)
    
38. Re-imagine by Tom Peters
    
39. The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun
    
40. The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
    
41. Swanson's Unwritten Rules of Management by Bill Swanson (free)
    
42. The Economist weekly news magazine

Best Book Lists 1

This is the first entry in many where I will compile the 'Best Book Lists' from some of my favorite blogs. Enjoy.
Richard Pachter's Best Business Books of 2005
He writes a weekly business book review column for The Miami Herald.

• Revolution in the Valley [Buy It] by Andy Hertzfeld
• blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking. [Buy It] by Malcolm Gladwell.
  
• A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. [Buy It] by Daniel H. Pink.
  
• Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America. [Buy It] by Les Standiford
  
• Think Big, Act Small: How America's Best Performing Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive. [Buy It] by Jason Jennings.
  
• Darknet: Hollywood's War Against The Digital Generation. [Buy It] by J.D. Lasica
  
• Tom Peters Essentials (four volumes: Design [Buy It], Leadership [Buy It], Talent [Buy It], & Trends [Buy It]). by Tom Peters.
  
• The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. [Buy It] by John Battelle.
  
• The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists. [Buy It] by Neil Strauss
  
• The Untied States of America. Polarization, Fracturing, and Our Future [Buy It] by Juan Enriquez