Books like Managing for Results

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The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker · Business

The Effective Executive is Peter Drucker's 1967 argument that effectiveness — getting the right things done — is a discipline that can be learned, and that it is the most important capability a knowledge worker can develop.

02

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Peter F. Drucker · Business

Innovation and Entrepreneurship is Drucker's systematic treatment of a subject that, in 1985, most people still regarded as the province of lone geniuses and lucky accidents.

03

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Richard Rumelt · Business

Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.

04

Blue Ocean Strategy

W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne · Business

Blue Ocean Strategy is Kim and Mauborgne's case that the most successful companies don't compete in existing markets by beating rivals at their own game — they create new market spaces where competition is irrelevant.

05

Competing Against Luck

Clayton M. Christensen · Business

Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.

06

100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

Christopher Mayer · Business

Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.