Hire with Your Head: Using Power Hiring to Build Great Teams, 2nd edition

Lou Adler

How to recruit, interview, and hire the best people for the job.

 

The Transparent Leader: How to Build a Great Company Through Straight Talk, Openness, and Accountability Herb Baum with Tammy Kling

In the wake of numerous corporate scandals, Baum offers business leaders a compelling method to get maximum results by being open and honest in business practices.

 

Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge, 2nd edition Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus

Leadership guru Warren Bennis and his coauthor Burt Nanus reveal the four key principles every manager should know.

 

Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization

Warren Bennis and Robert Townsend

Two of America’s foremost experts on leadership show how their strategies can lead organizations into a future that includes better employees with increased employee satisfaction and continued economic growth.

 

The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew, and Donald Carew Blanchard and company show how to develop any group into a successful team with efficiency and minimal stress.

 

First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

This book presents four management keys to help managers do a better job of hiring, evaluating, promoting and, if necessary, firing employees. Learn how to find the right fit for employees, focus on their strengths, define desired results, and select people with talent.

 

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Cliffton, Ph.D. This book encourages managers to increase performance by focusing on employees’ strengths rather than improving their weaknesses.

 

The Success Principles™: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer

One of the coauthors of the incredibly successful Chicken Soup for the Soul series provides the principles and strategies to meet a wide variety of goals.

 

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t

Jim Collins

The findings from Good to Great will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice.

 

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

Drucker, one of the great authorities on the art and science of management, shows how to “get the right things done,” demonstrating the distinctive skill of the executive and offering fresh insights into old and seemingly obvious business situations.

 

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Peter F. Drucker

This is the classic business tome for presenting innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline. This practical book explains what all businesses and institutions have to know, learn, and do in today’s market.

 

The Practice of Management

Peter F. Drucker

The first book to depict management as a distinct function and to recognize managing as a separate responsibility, this classic Drucker work is the fundamental and basic book for understanding these ideas.

 

The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello Drucker offers his penetrating and practical wisdom with his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity. The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet life’s many challenges.

 

Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines

David H. Freedman

Freeman examines the organization and culture of the United States Marine Corps and relates how business enterprises could benefit from such Marine values as sacrifice, perseverance, integrity, commitment, and loyalty.

 

The Girl’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business: Candid Advice, Frank Talk, and True Stories for the Successful Entrepreneur

Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio

Geared toward challenges faced by self-employed business-women, The Girl’s Guide to Starting Your Own Business offers solutions and advice for handling a range of issues, including how to hire employees.

 

The Big Book of Small Business: You Don’t Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants

Tom Gegax with Phil Bolsta

This book includes essential information on planning for growth, hiring the best people, and maximizing their potential.

 

The E-Myth Manager: Why Most Managers Aren’t Effective and What to Do About It

Michael E. Gerber

Drawing on lessons learned from working with more than 15,000 small, medium-sized, and very large organizations, Gerber reveals why management doesn’t work—and what to do about it.

 

Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating, and Growing Your Small Business in Any Economy!

Steve Gottry

This book tells you how to succeed throughout every phase of the small business life cycle—from starting to operating, growing, and even closing down a business. Author Gottry offers practical tips on hiring.

 

Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians Jane Hyun

Using case studies, interviews, and anecdotes, Hyun identifies issues and provides strategies for Asian Americans to succeed in corporate America. An interesting analysis of cultural differences.

 

It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That Eat the Slow: How to Use Speed as a Competitive Tool in Business

Jason Jennings and Laurence Haughton

Instructive text on how to create strategic planning and creativity to speed your business efficiently past the competition.

 

“Yes” or “No”: The Guide to Better Decisions Spencer Johnson, M.D.

Bestselling author Spencer Johnson presents a practical system anyone can use to make better decisions, soon and often—both at work and in personal life.

 

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization

Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith Authors Katzenbach and Smith reveal the most important element in team success, who excels at team leadership, and why company-wide change depends on teams.

 

Hire Tough, Manage Easy: How to Find and Hire the Best Hourly Employees

Mel Kleinman

This practical guide offers practical advice on getting the best hourly employees and how to go about finding, recruiting, and hiring the best candidates.

 

Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition

Harvey B. Mackay

In this straight-from-the-hip handbook, with almost 2 million in print, bestselling author and self-made millionaire Mackay reviews the secrets of his success.

 

You Can’t Win a Fight with Your Boss: & 55 Other Rules for Success

Tom Markert

This guide to surviving the pitfalls of the modern corporate environment presents 56 practical rules that one can use to find corporate success.

 

Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have Justin Menkes

In this thought-provoking volume, Menkes pinpoints the cognitive skills needed to thrive in senior management positions.

 

The Corporate Coach: How to Build a Team of Loyal Customers and Happy Employees

James B. Miller with Paul B. Brown

Founder and CEO of Miller Business Systems, Jim Miller shows how giving customers legendary services and also motivating employees makes for a winning combination.

 

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies

Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Based on a study of 43 of America’s best-run companies from a diverse array of business sectors, In Search of Excellence describes eight basic principles of management that made these organizations successful.

 

Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

David Rock

Rock demonstrates how to be a quiet leader, master at bringing out the best performance in others, by improving the way people process information.

 

Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People

Bradford Smart

This book argues that an essential component of growing and maintaining a company is the ability to find, recruit, and retain superior personnel.

 

The Cycle of Leadership: How Great Leaders Teach Their Companies to Win

Noel M. Tichy

Using examples from real companies, Tichy shows how managers can begin to transform their own businesses into teaching organizations and, consequently, better-performing companies with better-performing employees.

 

The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level

Noel M. Tichy

A framework for developing leaders at all levels of an organization helps to develop the next generation of leaders so that a company can grow from within, which is the key to excellence, stability, and building team loyalty.

 

The Visionary’s Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business

Watts Wacker and Jim Taylor with Howard Means This book presents a vision of the present and future to create a course for the future based upon the authors’ understanding of nine paradoxes that define the world’s business and social climates.

 

Winning

Jack Welch with Suzy Welch

The core of Winning is devoted to the real “stuff” of work. Packed with personal anecdotes, this book offers deep insights, original thinking, and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems.