Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Get your own personal MBA without spending a fortune

I like what ChangeThis is doing - spreading out new ideas (manifestos) on PDFs for free. One manifesto which has caught my attention is the personal MBA by Josh Kaufman.

If you are thinking of pursuing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and you are contemplating (I am thinking of doing one in the future). Perhaps, you might want to get your own personal MBA by reading the following 42 books and periodicals recommended:


  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, Renee Mauborgne
  9. seeing What's next by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
  10. re-imagine! by Tom Peters
  11. the essential drucker by Peter Drucker
  12. first, Break all the rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
  13. the essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
  14. poor charlie's almanack by Charlie Munger & Peter Kaufman
  15. the Mcgraw-hill 36-hour course in finance for nonfinancial Managers,2nd edition, by Robert A. Cooke
  16. essentials of accounting, 8th edition,by Robert Newton Anthony and Leslie K. Pearlman
  17. how to read a financial report by John A. Tracy
  18. getting to yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
  19. the goal: a Process of ongoing improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox
  20. lean thinking by James Womack & Daniel Jones
  21. the substance of style by Virginia Postrel
  22. the design of everyday things by Donald A. Norman
  23. the art of Project Management by Scott Berkun
  24. the Marketing Playbook by John Zagula & Richard Tong
  25. the art of the start by Guy Kawasaki
  26. the Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin
  27. on Writing Well by William Zinsser
  28. flawless consulting by Peter Block
  29. how to Win friends and influence People by Dale Carnegie
  30. crucial conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
  31. the little red Book of selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
  32. influence by Robert B. Cialdini
  33. economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt
  34. the economist
  35. american Business, 1920-2000 by Thomas K. McCraw, John H. Franklin, and A. S. Eisenstadt
  36. brand new by Nancy F. Koehn
  37. law 101 by Jay M. Feinman
  38. a Primer on Business ethics by Tibor Machan & James Chesher
  39. the 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
  40. principles of statistics by M.G. Bulmer
  41. the little Book of Business Wisdom by Peter Krass (Editor)
  42. swanson's unwritten rules of Management by Bill Swanson

6 comments:

Patrick said...

Please share the following with your community:

William Ury, the author of "Getting to Yes" and the Director of the Global Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School, is auctioning off his actual shoes and an interview with him on eBay from February 12 - 19, 2006.

William's shoes are, "a pair of hiking boots Bill used while hiking and walking the trails where most of his best thinking and best ideas come from."

Other successful leaders also auctioning off or giving-away their shoes and a mentorship include David Copperfield, the master magician, Michael Gerber, the author of e-Myth, AJ Jacobs, the Esquire Editor and author of "The Know it All", Dale Murphy, the former Major League Baseball Player, and others.

This shoe and mentorship auction is part of the Get in Their Shoes campaign. ( www.getintheirshoes.org) The Campaign is a call to action by successful business leaders, athletes, entertainers, and politicians to rally aspiring leaders to lift themselves out of their limiting circumstances by proactively interviewing successful professionals within their own communities.

You can read the official Press Release at www.getintheirshoes.org/pr.pdf

You can also access the Press Kit at www.getintheirshoes.org/presskit.pdf

You can read the Entrepreneur Blog entry about the campaign at
the Feb. 2nd 2006 entry http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/0,6834,,00.html#1

Thank you for sharing this information with your community.

Sincerely,

Patrick Tedjamulia
Executive Director, International Mentoring Network Organization
www.imno.org
ptedjamulia@imno.org
801-494-0540

Olivier said...

Hello,

I’m launching into a crazy project : read 52 books of the PMBA list in 52 weeks, and write a resume per week in my blog. All the details are here : http://www.books-that-can-change-your-life.net/2008/my-crazy-project-read-52-of-the-best-business-books-in-52-weeks-and-post-a-weekly-review-here-on-my-blog/

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marry said...

Blogs are so informative where we get lots of information on any topic. Nice job keep it up!!
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