 | Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer
Buy new: £12.23 / Used from: £10.00 Why many commonly practiced management activities are wrong, and often dangerous
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 | Teamwork: What Must Go Right/What Can Go Wrong (SAGE Series in Interpersonal Communication) by Carl E. Larson
Buy new: £24.00 / Used from: £15.99 Short, if slightly dry, book on the fundamentals of teamwork
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 | Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco
Buy used from: £26.71 Especially if you're managing software developmers / tech teams
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 | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Buy new: £13.89 / Used from: £4.21 An awesome book. Evidence based and a good read too
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 | The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management (Collins Business Essentials) by Peter F. Drucker
Buy used from: £8.95 Drucker was writing about managing knowledge workers in the 1950s, and is still relevant
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 | Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur by John P. Kotter
Buy new: £20.00 / Used from: £3.34 The story of a remarkable, but not famous, man
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 | The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey Liker
Buy new: £11.96 / Used from: £7.50 The principles and the concepts, if not the specific practices, are applicable to all industries
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 | The Powers to Lead: Soft, Hard, and Smart by Joseph Nye
Buy new: £8.71 / Used from: £4.99 How smart managers mix telling with persuading and influencing
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 | Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
Buy used from: £13.88 How to make your ideas stick. Good help on how to communicate effectively
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 | The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard
Buy used from: £3.08 Light reading, but still interesting. The story behind Hewlett Packard
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