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1	Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't more books like this by Jim Collins (Read by) The coauthor of the bestselling "Built to Last" now presents a blueprint for transforming good companies into great ones. Charts & graphs throughout. see all copies from £7.74! new only from £14.83! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal more books like this by Eric Schlosser To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats. see all copies from £2.11! new only from £7.17! \| first editions
3	Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies more books like this by James Collins Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting companies and studied each in direct comparison to one of its top competitors. They examined the companies from their very beginnings to the present day -- as start ... see all copies from £2.19! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army more books like this by Jeremy Scahill An extraordinary expos by one of America's young radical journalists, this is the dark story of the rise of a powerful mercenary army, ranging from the blood-soaked streets of Fallujah to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast to Washington, D.C., where Blackwater executives are hailed as heroes. see all copies from £5.67! new only from £6.19! \| first editions
5	Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors more books like this by Michael E Porter Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's "Competitive Strategy" has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity -- like all great breakthroughs -- Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of ... see all copies from £2.08! new only from £12.66! \| first editions
6	The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance more books like this by Ron Chernow The most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty, The House of Morgan traces the astonishing path of the J.P. Morgan empire with the sweep of an epic novel. "Brilliantly researched and written" (The Wall Street Journal), the hardcover was recently named winner of the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction. 32 pages of ... see all copies from £7.66! new only from £13.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron more books like this by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind Today, Enron is the biggest business story of our time, and "Fortune" senior writers McLean and Elkind are the new Woodward and Bernstein. Drawing on a wide range of unique sources, their book follows Enron's rise from obscurity to the top of the business world to its disastrous demise. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.21! \| first editions
8	The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs more books like this by Charles D Ellis With unparalleled access to the firm's enigmatic leadership, "The Partnership" chronicles the men who built Goldman Sachs, one of the world's largest investment banks. see all copies from £12.59! new only from £12.59!
9	Good to great : why some companies make the leap-- and others don't more books like this by James C. Collins Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, Collins concludes that good to great can and does happen. In this book, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good. Rigorously supported by evidence ... see all copies from £7.26! new only from £16.00! \| first editions
10	The Ecology of Commerce more books like this by Paul Hawken A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet. see all copies from £8.46! new only from £8.46! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer more books like this by Jeffrey K Liker, Professor Grover Gardner (Read by) 'This book will give you an understanding of what has made Toyota successful and some practical ideas that you can use to develop your own approach to business' - Gary Convis, Managing Office of Toyota. Fewer man-hours. Less inventory. The highest quality cars with the fewest defects of any competing manufacturer. In factories around the globe, ... see all copies from £15.78! new only from £15.78! \| first editions
12 view cover	Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution more books like this by Michael Hammer, James Champy This study introduces a new business philosophy that offers companies hope for a competitive future. Hammer and Champy examine the overall nature of work and ask the question: "Why do we do what we do at all?" If a company isn't performing, rather than tinkering with it, they redesign the corporation and its work methods from top to bottom, an ... see all copies from £4.94! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco more books like this by Bryan Burrough, John Helyar The mighty battle for control of RJR Nabisco during October and November of 1988 was marked by brazen displays of ego not seen in American business for decades, and became the hallmark of a new gilden age. The repercussions are still to be felt - and dealt with. With a stake of $25 billion, it will go down in history as the ultimate tale of greed ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £10.48! \| first editions
14 view cover	Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm more books like this by Verne Harnish see all copies from £14.13! new only from £14.63! \| signed copies
15 view cover	Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance more books like this by Michael E Porter The essential complement to the pathbreaking book "Competitive Strategy," Michael E. Porter's "Competitive Advantage" explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. With over 30 printings in English and translated into thirteen languages, this second volume in Porter's landmark trilogy describes how a firm actually ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £12.17! \| first editions
16 view cover	The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty more books like this by Julia Flynn Siler An epic, scandal-plagued story of the immigrant family that built--and then spectacularly lost--a global wine empire. Award-winning journalist Flynn Siler brings to life both the place and the people in this riveting family drama. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace more books like this by Ricardo Semler Ricardo Semler inherited his family company, Semco - manufacturer of marine pumps, industrial dishwashers and mixing equipment - when he was 19. Soon, by 1980, it was on the brink of bankruptcy, but a decade later, during a period of savage recession in Brazil, it had been transformed into a rapidly-growing company with profits of 10% on sales of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.33! \| first editions
18 view cover	Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause more books like this by Tom Gjelten This unique history of Cuba is captured in the life and times of the famous rum dynasty. In chronicling the saga of the remarkable Bacardi family, Gjelten describes the intersection of business and power, family and politics, community and exile. b&w photo inserts. see all copies from £13.38! new only from £15.61! \| first editions
19 view cover	Nuts! more books like this by Kevin Freiberg Twenty-five years ago, Herb Kelleher reinvented air travel when he founded Southwest Airlines, where the planes are painted like killer whales, a typical company maxim is " Hire people with a sense of humor, " and in-flight meals are never served--just sixty million bags of peanuts a year. By sidestepping " reengineering, " " total quality ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.98! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business more books like this by Martha Stewart In this guide for apprentice entrepreneurs, billionaire CEO Martha Stewart offers 10 practical rules to getting it right. The rules are designed to identify and elicit each person's individual sense of entrepreneurship and to direct energies and skills toward an optimum outcome. The Martha Rules can be applied, mutatis mutandis, to businesses of ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It more books like this by Elizabeth Royte In this intelligent, eye-opening work of narrative journalism, Royte does for water what Eric Schlosser did for fast food: she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring it from nature to the supermarkets. see all copies from £13.72! new only from £14.40!
22 view cover	The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And How It's Transforming the American Economy more books like this by Charles Fishman Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data--including facts such as this: Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores--this text is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping the American economy. see all copies from £2.14! new only from £6.96! \| first editions
23 view cover	My Years with General Motors more books like this by Alfred Sloan This story, told by a business leader, is a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience within a giant industry and an inside look at the dramatic events that led to the company's success. The reader will learn the art of management by one who perfected it. see all copies from £2.15! new only from £11.26! \| first editions
24 view cover	Competing for the Future more books like this by Gary Hamel, C K Prahalad New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking has already engendered a new language of strategy ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938 more books like this by John Brooks Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks--who was one of the most elegant of all business writers--perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best--known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." --From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor--in--Chief, The ... see all copies from £7.02! new only from £11.78! \| first editions

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