These books had a major impact on my thinking regarding the discipline of business acceleration, which is the field of study of how corporations generate sustainable, profitable growth. It certainly is not an exhaustive list of the books I've read on this concept, but it will give you a good place to start.

The links below will take you to the appropriate pages on .

Business Research

• It's Not The Big That Eat The Small-It's The Fast That Eat The Slow by Jason Jennings

• Less Is More by Jason Jennings

• Think BIG-Act Small by Jason Jennings

• Good To Great by Jim Collins

• Built To Last by Jim Collins

• The One Thing You Need To Know by Marcus Buckingham

• Organizing Genius by Warren Bennis and Patricia Biedermann

Trends in Society

• The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman

• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

History

• 1776 by David McCullough

Business Novels

• Radical Edge by Steve Farber

• Leadership & Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute

• Gung Ho! by Ken Blanchard

• The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt

• The Greatest Miracle in The World by Og Mandino

• The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino

Biographies/Autobiographies

• Thomas Paine by Craig Nelson

• Thomas Jefferson by R.B. Bernstein

• The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Clayborne Carson

• My Experiments With Truth by Mohandas Gandhi

• Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips

• Wooden by John Wooden

• Leading With The Heart by Mike Krzyzewski

• It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong

• Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson

Management Consultants/Teachers

• POP! Stand Out in Any Crowd by Sam Horn

• The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

• The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker

• The Unofficial Guide to Power Managing by Alan Weiss

• Profit From The Core by Chris Zook

• Beyond the Core by Chris Zook

• The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker

• Hitting the Sweet Spot by Lisa Fortini-Campbell

• Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

• Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman

• Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

• The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson

• How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley

• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim

• The Discipline of Market Leaders by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema

• Purple Cow by Seth Godin

• Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin

Senior Executives

• Execution by Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy

• Confronting Reality by Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy

• The Spirit to Serve Marriott's Way by Bill Marriott

• Winning by Jack Welch

• Setting the Table by Danny Meyer

• Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy

• Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton

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