In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companiesīuilt to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies Here is a list of the 20 most influential business books of the last 20 years as voted by our panel of experts. CEOs, journalists, consultants and even football coaches-in addition to academics-have weighed in on all things business. Meanwhile, business books have gained an unprecedented prominence and popularity (as have business magazines like Forbes).īooks on management, chronicles of big deals and businessman biographies have all taken their place on the bestseller lists. With that boom, business achieved a new cultural popularity as CEOs likeīecame icons. That's all changed as America in the past two decades has enjoyed a long boom-20 years of prosperity punctuated by just one or two fairly mild recessions. At the time, business books were afterthoughts gathering dust in the back of bookstores. Had to be bailed out, the oil crisis concentrated wealth in the ground and among Arabian plutocrats and the threat from a seemingly dynamic Japan seemed insurmountable. Twenty years ago, America was suffering from a recession combining high unemployment coupled with inflation. The Top 20 Business Books Of The Long Boom
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