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Best Business Books 2003: Index

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Competitive Solutions: The Strategist’s Toolkit
by R. Preston McAfee
(Princeton University Press, 2002)
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Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It — No Matter What
by Michael Treacy
(Portfolio, 2003) 
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How to Grow When Markets Don’t
by Adrian Slywotzky and Richard Wise with Karl Weber
(Warner Business Books, 2003)
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The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
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Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
by Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
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The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
(Modern Library, 2003)
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False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today
by James Hoopes
(Perseus Publishing, 2003)
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Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict
by Peter J. Frost
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003) 
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When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies…and What You Can Do About It
by Leslie A. Perlow
(Crown Business, 2003)
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Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success
by Art Kleiner
(Currency Doubleday, 2003) 
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Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen’s Quest to Invent a New World
by Steve Kemper
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003) 
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How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate
by Andrew Hargadon
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
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Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created
by Jeffrey Zygmont
(Perseus Publishing, 2003)
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Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology
by Henry Chesbrough
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
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The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World
by Bhaskar Chakravorti
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
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Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider
by Brian Cruver
(Carroll & Graf, 2002)
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Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist
by Om Malik
(John Wiley & Sons, 2003)
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Disconnected: Deceit and Betrayal at WorldCom
by Lynne W. Jeter
(John Wiley & Sons, 2003)
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Enron: The Rise and Fall
by Loren Fox
(John Wiley & Sons, 2003)
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Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
by Mimi Swartz with Sherron Watkins
(Doubleday, 2003)
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The Smartest Guys in The Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
(Portfolio, 2003) 
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Stealing Time: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Collapse of AOL Time Warner
by Alec Klein
(Simon & Schuster, 2003)
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Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World…and Then Nearly Lost It All
by Monica Langley
(Simon & Schuster, 2003)
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Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
by Niall Ferguson
(Basic Books, 2003)
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The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad
by Fareed Zakaria
(W.W. Norton & Company, 2003)
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One World: The Ethics of Globalization
by Peter Singer
(Yale University Press, 2002)
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
by Amy Chua
(Doubleday, 2002)
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Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(Viking Penguin, 2003)
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Leadership
by Rudolph W. Giuliani and Ken Kurson
(Miramax, 2002)
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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
by Rakesh Khurana
(Princeton University Press, 2002)
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Transforming Leadership: The New Pursuit of Happiness
by James MacGregor Burns
(Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003)
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Treat People Right! How Organizations and Individuals Can Propel Each Other into a Virtuous Spiral of Success
by Edward E. Lawler III
(Jossey-Bass, 2003)
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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance? Inside IBM’s Historic Turnaround
by Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
(HarperBusiness, 2002)
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I Don’t Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
by Allison Pearson
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)
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The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin
(Viking Penguin, 2002)
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What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
by Po Bronson
(Random House, 2002)
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
(W.W. Norton & Company, 2003)
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Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress, 1903-2003
by Douglas Brinkley
(Viking Penguin, 2003)
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
by Michael E. Porter
(Free Press, 1998)
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The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market
by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema
(Perseus Publishing, 1995)
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The End of Economic Man: A Study of the New Totalitarianism
by Peter Drucker
(John Day Company, 1939)
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
(Crown Business, 2002)
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Ford
by Allan Nevins
(Scribner, 1954-63)

Ford: The Men and the Machine
by Robert Lacey
(Little, Brown & Co., 1986)
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The Future of Industrial Man
by Peter Drucker
(John Day Company, 1942)
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The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
by Clayton M. Christensen
(Harvard Business School Press, 1997)
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Leadership
by James MacGregor Burns
(Harper & Row, 1978)
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The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
by James Burnham
(John Day Company, 1943)
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The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World
by James Burnham
(John Day Company, 1941)
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The Modern Corporation and Private Property
by Adolf A. Berle and Gardiner C. Means
(Transaction Publishers, 1991; Commerce Clearing House, 1932)
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Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938
by John Brooks
(John Wiley & Sons, 1999; Harper & Row, 1969)
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The Reckoning
by David Halberstam
(Morrow, 1986)
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Vineyard of Liberty: The American Experiment
by James MacGregor Burns
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1982)
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