Personal MBA Book List

The following list reflects "The 99 Best Business Books Available: The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List" on Josh Kaufman's Personal MBA website as of April 21, 2010:

PMBA Link	Blog Post Link
Productivity & Effectiveness
10 Days to Faster Reading by Abby Marks-Beale	N/A
StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath	N/A
Getting Things Done by David Allen	N/A
The Power of Less by Leo Babauta	N/A
The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch	N/A
Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst	N/A
The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz	N/A
The Human Mind
Brain Rules by John Medina	N/A
Making Sense of Behavior by William T. Powers	N/A
Driven by Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria	N/A
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales	N/A
Communication
On Writing Well by William Zinsser	N/A
Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds	N/A
Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath	N/A
The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert Bly	N/A
Show Me The Numbers by Stephen Few	N/A
Influence
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie	N/A
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini	N/A
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al	N/A
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene	N/A
Decision-Making
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein	N/A
Smart Choices by John S. Hammond et al	N/A
The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz	N/A
Ethics for the Real World by Ronald Howard & Clinton Korver	N/A
Creativity & Innovation
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp	N/A
Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun	N/A
Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker	N/A
Project Management
Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun	N/A
Results Without Authority by Tom Kendrick	N/A
Opportunity Identification
The New Business Road Test by John Mullins	N/A
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy	N/A
Entrepreneurship
Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson	N/A
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki	N/A
The Knack by Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham	N/A
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss	N/A
Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim	N/A
Bankable Business Plans by Edward Rogoff	N/A
Value-Creation & Design
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson	N/A
Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank	N/A
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman	N/A
Universal Principles of Design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, and Jill Butler	N/A
Marketing
All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin	N/A
Permission Marketing by Seth Godin	N/A
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Jack Trout	N/A
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham	N/A
Sales
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes	N/A
Value-Based Fees by Alan Weiss	N/A
SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham	N/A
The Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gitomer	N/A
Value-Delivery
Indispensable by Joe Calloway	N/A
The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt	N/A
Lean Thinking by James Womack and Daniel Jones	N/A
Negotiation
Bargaining For Advantage by G. Richard Shell	N/A
3-D Negotiation by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius	N/A
The Partnership Charter by David Gage	N/A
Management
First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman	N/A
12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner & James Harter	N/A
Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen	N/A
Hiring Smart by Pierre Mornell	N/A
The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker	N/A
Leadership
Tribes by Seth Godin	N/A
Total Leadership by Stewart Friedman	N/A
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith	N/A
The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan by George Bradt et al	N/A
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig	N/A
Finance & Accounting
Accounting Made Simple by Mike Piper	N/A
Essentials of Accounting (9th Edition) by Robert N. Anthony and Leslie K. Breitner	N/A
The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance by Robert A. Cooke	N/A
How to Read a Financial Report by John A. Tracy	N/A
Systems
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows	N/A
Work the System by Sam Carpenter	N/A
Learning from the Future by Liam Fahey & Robert Randall	N/A
Analysis
Turning Numbers Into Knowledge by Jonathan Koomey	N/A
Marketing Metrics by Paul W. Farris et al	N/A
Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik	N/A
The Economist Numbers Guide by Richard Stuteley	N/A
Statistics
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff	N/A
Principles of Statistics by M.G. Bulmer	N/A
Corporate Skills
The Unwritten Laws of Business by W.J. King	N/A
The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker	N/A
The Simplicity Survival Handbook by Bill Jensen	N/A
Corporate Strategy
Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies by Nikos Mourkogiannis	N/A
Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter	N/A
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne	N/A
Green to Gold by Daniel Esty & Andrew Winston	N/A
Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony	N/A
Consulting
Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss	N/A
Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg	N/A
Personal Finance
Your Money or Your Life by Joel Dominguez & Vicki Robin	N/A
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi	N/A
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley & William Danko	N/A
Fail-Safe Investing by Harry Browne	N/A
It’s Not About The Money by Brent Kessel	N/A
Work Less, Live More by Bob Clyatt	N/A
Personal Development
Self-Directed Behavior by David L. Watson & Roland G. Tharp	N/A
Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina	N/A
Re-Create Your Life by Morty Lefkoe	N/A
Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale	N/A
The Art of Exceptional Living by Jim Rohn	N/A