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Subject: best selling business books of all time
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Asked by: tailwag-ga
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Posted: 11 Nov 2006 20:54 PST
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What are the top 100 best-selling business books of all time?

Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 11 Nov 2006 22:36 PST
Hello again Tailwag,

I can provide you with 

- Business Week?s top-selling business books for each year from 1996 to 2005.

- HarperBusiness best 15 business books of the century

- Forbe?s list of the 20 Most Influential Business Books from 1981-2000.

Would these lists be a satisfactory answer to your question?

Thanks, 
Bobbie7

Clarification of Question by tailwag-ga on 13 Nov 2006 09:55 PST
hi again Bobbie7. these lists would do it. nice going!
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Subject: Re: best selling business books of all time
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 13 Nov 2006 10:15 PST
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Hello again Tailwag,

Thank you for your positive response to my clarification question.


HarperBusiness Names Its Own Best Business Books of the Century


BARBARIANS AT THE GATE: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough

BEATING THE DOW: A High-Return, Low-Risk Method for Investing in the
Dow Jones Industrial Stocks with as Little as $5,000 by Michael B.
O'Higgins with John Downes

BUILT TO LAST: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by James C.
Collins and Jerry I. Porras

DIE BROKE: A Radical, Four-Part Financial Plan to Restore Your
Confidence, Increase Your Net Worth, and Afford the Lifestyle of Your
Dreams by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine

THE DILBERT PRINCIPLE: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings,
Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions by Scott Adams

THE EFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE by Peter F. Drucker 

THE E-MYTH REVISITED: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to
Do about It by Michael E. Gerber

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT BEING WHITE: Straight Talk on
Making It in America by Earl G. Graves

IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE by Tom Peters 

THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham 

THE LEADERSHIP ENGINE: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every
Level by Noel M. Tichy with Eli Cohen

THE NEW MONEY MASTERS: Winning Investment Strategies of: Soros, Lynch,
Steinhardt, Rogers, Neff, Wanger, Michaelis and Carret by John Train

THE POPCORN REPORT: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your
World, Your Life by Faith Popcorn

REENGINEERING THE CORPORATION: A Manifesto for Business Revolution by
Michael Hammer and James Champy

THE WISDOM OF TEAMS: Creating the high Performance Organization by Jon
R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith

Business Wire,  Jan 7, 2000 
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Jan_7/ai_58491490


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Forbe?s list of the 20 Most Influential Business Books from 1981-2000.


In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies 	
Thomas Peters, Robert H. Waterman 

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies 	
James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras 

Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution 	
Michael Hammer, James A. Champy 

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco 	
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar 

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance 	
Michael E. Porter 

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 	
Malcolm Gladwell 

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to
Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore 

The House of Morgan 	
Ron Chernow 

The Six Sigma Way 	
Peter S. Pande et al, Robert P. Neuman, Roland R. Cavanagh 

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal
Change Stephen R. Covey

Liar's Poker 	
Michael Lewis 

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen 

Japan Inc. 	
Shotaro Ishinomori 

Den of Thieves 	
James B. Stewart 

The Essential Drucker 	
Peter F. Drucker 

Competing for the Future 	
Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad 

The Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor 	
Robert G. Hagstrom 

Jack: Straight from the Gut 	
Jack Welch, John A. Byrne 

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't 	
James Collins 

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story 	
Michael Lewis
http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/30/0930booksintro_2.html


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Business Week?s top-selling business books for each year from 1996 to 2005.

2005
http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2006/bestsellersof2005.pdf

2004
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_07/b3920031_mz005.htm
http://www.businessweek.com/pdfs/2004/0427_bestseller.pdf


The BusinessWeek Best-Sellers of 2003 
The top-selling business books as reported January through December,
2003 http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_06/b3869165_mz005.htm


The BusinessWeek Best-Sellers of 2002 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_06/b3819036.htm


1996 -2001
http://www.businessweek.com/bwplus/booksell.htm




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I hope the information provided is helpful!

Bobbie7
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