Recommended Reading on Project Management, Personal Productivity, and Business Strategy

I’m often asked what books I would recommend for Project Management, Personal Productivity, and Business Strategy. Here are a few of my favorites:

Project Management Books

The Project 50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every “Task” into a Project That Matters!, Tom Peters

Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application, 37signals

The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

Leading with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life, Mike Krzyzewski

Business Strategy Books

Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, Andrew S. Grove

Your Marketing Sucks, Mark Stevens

Good to Great – Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t, Jim Collins

Microsoft Secrets: How the World’s Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People, Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby

Body and Soul: Profits With Principles-The Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop, Anita Roddick

Personal Productivity Books

The Brand You 50: Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an ‘Employee’ into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion!, Tom Peters

The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss

All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft: Inside Strategies to Help You Succeed, Julie Bick

Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day, Gina Trapani

The Art of Connecting – How to Overcome Differences, Build Rapport, and Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Claire Raines, Lara Ewing

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  2. Jon Strickler says:
    May 19, 2008 at 5:44 pm

    Nice list. To personal productivity, I’d add Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive.

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    May 26, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    Absolutely awesome list. That’s going to take me a few hours of work time tomorrow to sift through.

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  7. Dave says:
    November 20, 2008 at 6:17 am

    What a fantastic list – thank you! I’ll be ordering some of these from Amazon soon!

  8. Regis Hadiaris says:
    April 12, 2009 at 3:29 am

    Thanks everyone. Glad you like this list!

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