David’s Top Ten Books
Winning by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch Harper Business 2005
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“Reinventing the CFO” by Jeremy Hope Harvard Business School Press
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“The Definitive Drucker” Challenges For Tomorrow’s Executives — Final Advice From the Father of Modern Management
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Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, HarperBusiness
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer Hardcover
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Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, In search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best Run Companies, Harper and Row
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Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success
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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap , Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser, Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
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Gary Hamel, “The Future of Management” Harward Business School Press 2007
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The Leader's Dilemma: How to Build an Empowered and Adaptive Organization Without Losing Control
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KPI Books that have influenced thinking
“Practical Performance Measurement: Using the PuMP Blueprint for Fast, Easy and Engaging KPIs”
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Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success
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Management Books that have influenced thinking
Making Smart Decisions (Harvard Business Review)
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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap , Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser, Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
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How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons from the World‘s Greatest Car Company, David Magee,Portfolio,2008
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The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life
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Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a management revolution
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Research development books that have influenced thinking
The Winner’s Bible: Rewire Your Brain for Permanent Change
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The One Minute Manager , Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, Morrow
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Screw it, Let‘s Do it: Lessons in Life , Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Books,Information dashboard Design, Stephen Few, O’Reilly Media
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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery Garr Reynolds, , New Riders
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Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations ,Nancy Duarte, O ‘ Riley, 2008
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Negotiate: The Art of Winning , Harry A. Mills, The Mills Group, 1990
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Get Slightly Famous , Steven Van Yoder, Bay Tree Publishing, 2007
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Gary Hamel, “The Future of Management” Harward Business School Press 2007
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“The Art of Making People Feel Welcome,” Jan Gunnarsson and Olle Blohm, Dialogos, 2008
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Nelson’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander by Jonathan Gosling and Stephanie Jones Nicholas Brealey London, 2005
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Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
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Ken Blanchard and Mark R. Miller, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, Berrett-Koehler, 2009
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View from the Summit: The Remarkable Memoir by the First Person to Conquer Everest Sir Edmund Hillary, Gallery, 2000
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Managing the nonprofit organization” Peter F Drucker Harper Paperbacks 2006
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A Class with Drucker: The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher” William Alan Cohen, AMACOM
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Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
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