FAVORITE BUSINESS BOOKS - 2005

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don't by Jim Collins

Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economyby Christopher Meyer and Stan Davis 

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Failby Clayton M. Christensen

Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Wayby Richard Branson

Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter F. Drucker 

First, Break all the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differentlyby Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends, and Friends into Customersby Seth Godin and Don Peppers 

How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg by A. Larry Elliott and Richard J. Schroth

Purple Cow by Seth Godin

The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer

The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman

Straight from the CEO: The World's Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas That Every Manager Can UseEditors: G. William Dauphinais and Colin Price

Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration by Robert Hargrove

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow Youby John C. Maxwell

Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Factors Influencing Women's Attainment of Senior Executive Positions by Carole Kadinger Adair

The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable  by Patrick M. Lencioni

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and In Your Life by Spencer Johnson