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• 11 Immutable Laws of Internet by Al Ries & Laura Ries (ISBN 1-86197-600-3)

• 22 Immutable Laws of Branding by Al Ries & Laura Ries (ISBN 1-86197-605-4)

• 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries & Laura Ries (ISBN 1-86197-610-0)

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• After Image by John Grant (ISBN 1-86197-640-2)

• Alexander the Great's Art of Strategy by Partha Bose (ISBN 1-86197-432-9)

• Anatomy of Buzz by Emmanuel Rosen (ISBN 1-86197-615-1)

• Art of Innovation by Thomas Kelley (ISBN 1-86197-583-X)

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu, translated by Samuel B. Griffith,(Oxford University Press, 1963)

• Atlas of Management Thinking by Edward De Bono (Penguin Books, 1981)

• The Age of Unreason by Charles Handy, (Harvard Business School Press, 1989)

• American Pastoral by Philip Roth, (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997)

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• Backing Winners by Bernice Cohen (ISBN 1-86197-446-9)

• Beyond Reengineering by Michael Hammer (ISBN 1-86197-518-X)

• Big Idea by Robert Jones (ISBN 1-86197-568-6)

• Borderless World by Kenichi Ohmae (ISBN 1-86197-584-8)

• Brand Warriors of China by Fiona Gilmore & Serge Dumont (ISBN 1-86197-699-2)

• Britain's Top Employers by Corporate Research Foundation (ISBN 1-86197-635-6)

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1994)

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, (Harcourt Brace & Company, 1922)

• Biography of a Buick (aka Motor City) by Bill Morris, (Granta Books, 1992)

• Bombardiers by Po Bronson, (Random House Inc., 1995)

• Boards at Work: How Corporate Boards Create Competitive Advantage by Ram Charan, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1998)

• Business Wargames by Barrie James (Abacus Press, 1984)

• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux,1987)

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• Challenge of Change by Jim Hirst (ISBN 1-86197-539-2)

• Character of a Corporation by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (ISBN 1-86197-639-9)

• China Dream by Joe Studwell (ISBN 1-86197-336-5)

• Chocolate Wars by Joel G Brenner (ISBN 1-86197-512-0)

• City State (pb) by Richard Roberts & David Kynaston (ISBN 1-86197-416-7)

• Clausewitz on Strategy: Inspiration and Insight from a Master Strategist edited by Tiha von Ghyczy, Bolko von Oetinger, and Christopher Bassford, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2001)

• Corporate Strategy: An Analytic Approach to Business Policy for Growth and Expansion by H. Igor Ansoff,(McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1965; out of print)

• Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market — and How to Successfully Transform Them by Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan, (Random House Inc., Currency, 2001)

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 2002, ISBN 0071401946)

• Co-opetition by Barry J Nalebuff & Adam M Brandenburger (ISBN 1-86197-507-4)

• Company of the Future (pb) by Frances Cairncross (ISBN 1-86197-556-2)

• Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top by Jay A. Conger, Edward E. Lawler III, and David L. Finegold, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., Jossey-Bass, 2001)

• Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede and Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-543-0)

• Customer Intimacy by Fred Wiersema (ISBN 1-86197-630-5)

• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, (The Communist League, 1848)

• Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop, (Touchstone Books, 1992)

• Creating Customer Evangelists: How Loyal Customers Become a Volunteer Sales Force by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba (ISBN 1-07931-5561-4)

• Customers.com by P. Seybold, Crown Business Books (Random House)

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• Daily Mail Tax Guide by Jane Vass (ISBN 1-86197-489-2)

• Developing Strategic Thought by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-659-3)

• Direct from Dell by Michael Dell (ISBN 1-86197-557-0)

• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, (The Viking Press, 1949)

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, (Saunders and Otley, 1835)

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• The Experience Economy by James H. Gilmore, Harvard Business School Press, 1999

• Easy Money (pb) by Philip Coggan (ISBN 1-86197-293-8)

• Enterprise by Roger Parry (ISBN 1-86197-634-8)

• Eveolution by Faith Popcorn with Lys Marigold (ISBN 1-86197-599-6)

• The End of Shareholder Value: Corporations at the Crossroads by Allan A. Kennedy, (Perseus Publishing, 2000)

• Extreme Management by Mark Stevens (ISBN 1-86197-620-8)

• Experiment at Work by Andy Law (ISBN 1-86197-437-X)

• The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss, (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966)

• England, England by Julian Barnes, (Random House U.K., Ltd., Cape, 1998)

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• Finance Directors by Rupert Merson (ISBN 1-86197-454-X)

• Fish Rots from the Head by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-616-X)

• Free Lunch by David Smith (ISBN 1-86197-506-6)

• Fusion Manager by Robert Heller (ISBN 1-86197-646-1)

• Futurewise by Patrick Dixon (ISBN 1-86197-710-7)

• The Financier by Theodore Dreiser, (Harper & Brothers, 1912)

• From Worst to First: Behind the Scenes of Continental’s Remarkable Comeback by Gordon Bethune with Scott Huler, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1998)

• A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, (Crown Business, 2000)

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• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don’t by Jim Collins, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 2001)

• Guerrilla Marketing by J. Conrad Levinson (Houghton - Mifflin, 1984)

• Goldfinger by Robert Heller (ISBN 1-86197-533-3)

• Gain by Richard Powers, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond, (W.W. Norton & Co., 1997)

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• Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People by Charles A. O’Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

• House of All Nations by Christina Stead, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1938; out of print)

• The Hucksters by Frederic Wakeman, (Rinehart & Co., 1946; out of print)

• The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard, edited by David Kirby with Karen Lewis, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1995)

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• In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters & Robert H Waterman Jr (ISBN 1-86197-594-5)

• Infectious Greed by Frank Partnoy (ISBN 1-86197-438-8)

• The Individualized Corporation: A Fundamentally New Approach to Management by Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher A. Bartlett, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1997)

• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen, (Harvard Business School Press,1997)

• Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 2001)

• Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian, (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)

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• The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, (Oxford University Press, 1995)

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• Learning Organization by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-587-2)

• Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious by James O’Toole, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1999)

• The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, (Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, 1987)

• The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level by Noel M. Tichy with Eli Cohen, (HarperCollins Publishers, HarperBusiness, 1997)

• Leadership without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz, (Harvard University Press, 1994)

• Leadership Is an Art by Max DePree, (Doubleday & Co., 1989)

• The Loyalty Effect by Frederick Reichheld (Harvard Business School Press, 1996) ISBN 0-87584-448-0

• The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)

• The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden, and Joel Hyatt, (Perseus Publishing, 1999)

• The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) by Emile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson, (Librairie Charpentier, 1883)

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• Making it Happen by John Harvey-Jones

• Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker, (Harper & Row, 1974)

• Marketing Warfare by Al Ries and Jack Trout (McGraw-Hill, 1986)

• Market Panic by Stephen Vines (ISBN 1-86197-403-5)

• Maximum Success by Timothy Butler & James Waldroop (ISBN 1-86197-517-1)

• Microsoft Secrets by Michael A. Cusumano & Richard w. Selby (ISBN 1-86197-532-5)

• The Mind of the Strategist: Business planning for competitive advantage by Kenichi Ohmae (Penguin Books, 1982) ISBN 0 14 00 6722 1

• A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)

• The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1955)

• Megatrends by John Naisbitt (Warner Books, 1982) ISBN 0-466-51251-6

• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, (ReganBooks, 1995)

• Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis, (Penguin Books Ltd., 1984)

• The Money Game by Adam Smith (Dell Publishing, 1967)

• Moments of Truth: New Strategies for Today’s Customer-Driven Economy by Jan Carlzon, (Ballinger Publishing Co., 1987)

• Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall (Oxford University Press, 1988)

• My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., edited by John McDonald with Catharine Stevens, (Macfadden-Bartell Books, 1963)

• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto, (Basic Books, 2000)

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• Non-Executive Directors by Rupert Merson (ISBN 1-86197-499-X)

• Nice Work by David Lodge, (Penguin Books Ltd., 1988)

• A New View of Society by Robert Owen, (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813)

• No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein, (Picador USA, 1999)

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• Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew Grove (ISBN 1-86197-513-9)

• On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1989)

• Oil! by Upton Sinclair, (Albert and Charles Boni, 1927)

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• Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters & Nancy Austin (ISBN 1-86197-589-9)

• Peak Performance by Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts & Ed Weymes (ISBN 1-86197-503-1)

• Positioning: The battle for your mind, Al Ries and Jack Trout, (Warner Books - McGraw-Hill Inc., 1981 ISBN 0-446-34794-9)

• The Patton Mind: The Professional Development of an Extraordinary Leader by Roger H. Nye, (Avery Publishing Group, 1992)

• Pawns or Potentates: The Reality of America’s Corporate Boards by Jay W. Lorsch with Elizabeth MacIver, (Harvard Business School Press, 1989)

• The Popcorn Report by Faith Popcorn (Harper Business Books, 1992) ISBN 0-88730-594-6

• Personal History by Katharine Graham, (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1997)

• Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick by Ken Iverson with Tom Varian, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997)

• Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment by David F. Swensen, (John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1997)

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• Right Side Up by Alan Mitchell (ISBN 1-86197-574-0)

• Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by Michael Hammer and James A. Champy (ISBN 0066621127)

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel (Norton and Co., 1985) ISBN 0-393-01999-3

• Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer (pb) by Judi Bevan (ISBN 1-86197-431-0)

• The Representation of Business in English Literature edited by Arthur Pollard, (Institute of Economic Affairs, 2000)

• Room at the Top by John Braine, (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1957)

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• Sand to Silicon by Jeff Sampler & Saeb Eigner (ISBN 1-86197-627-5)

• Seven Deadly Sins of Management by Jonathan Ellis & Rene Tissen (ISBN 1-86197-526-0)

• The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton,(Harvard Business School Press, 2001)

• Small is Beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered by E. F. Schumacher (Abacus, 1973)

• Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand, and Joseph Lampel, (Simon & Schuster Inc., Free Press, 1998)

• Strategy of the Dolphin, Scoring a win in a chaotic world by D. Lynch and P. Kordis (Ballantine Books, 1988) ISBN 0-449-90529-2

• Surpetition by Edward de Bono (ISBN 1-86197-547-3)

• The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy by Noreena Hertz, (Heinemann Publishing, 2001)

• The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser, (Crowell, 1947; out of print)

• The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

• Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein, (MIT Press, 1998)

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• Tactics by Edward de Bono (ISBN 1-86197-537-6)

• Tao of Coaching by Max Landsberg (ISBN 1-86197-650-X)

• Tao of Motivation by Max Landsberg (ISBN 1-86197-655-0)

• Tao of Leadership by Max Landsberg (ISBN 1-86197-660-7)

• Twelve Organizational Capabilities by Bob Garratt (ISBN 1-86197-572-4)

• The Titan by Theodore Dreiser, (John Lane Co., 1914)

• Tono-Bungay by H.G. Wells, (Duffield & Co., 1908)

• Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen, (Random House Inc., 1999)

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• Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits by Robert Townsend, (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., 1970; out of print)

• Unchained Value: The New Logic of Digital Business by Mary J. Cronin, (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

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• Value Migration: How to think several moves ahead of the competition by Adrian Slywotzky (Harvard Business School Press, 1996) ISBN 0-87584-632-7

• The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., (P.B. Belknap Press, 1977)

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• What Management Is (pb) by Joan Magretta (ISBN 1-86197-645-3)

• The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, (Simon & Schuster Inc., 1953)

• Warriors on the High Wire Fiona Gilmore (ISBN 1-86197-611-9)

• War or Peace by BDO Stoy Hayward (ISBN 1-86197-524-4)

• What They don't Teach you at Harvard Business School by Mark McCormack (ISBN 1-86197-564-3)

• What You'll Never Learn on the Internet by Mark McCormack (ISBN 1-86197-569-4)

• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, (Chapman and Hall, 1875)

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