Porchlight's 99 Best Business Books of All Time
1. 
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
by:
Guy Kawasaki
3.90 avg rating — 29,087 ratings 
3. 
The Republic of Tea: The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
by:
Mel Ziegler
3.79 avg rating — 314 ratings 
6. 
Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business 3.92 avg rating — 6,482 ratings
7. 
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
by:
Randy Komisar
3.87 avg rating — 2,980 ratings 
9. 
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace
by:
Gordon MacKenzie
4.04 avg rating — 5,159 ratings 10. 
The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
by:
Tom Kelley
3.95 avg rating — 8,325 ratings 11. 
Jump Start Your Business Brain: The Scientific Way To Make More Money
by:
Doug Hall
3.97 avg rating — 192 ratings 12. 
A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative
by:
Roger Von Oech
3.95 avg rating — 2,670 ratings 13. 
14. 
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life 3.92 avg rating — 11,640 ratings
15. 
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
by:
Thomas J. Peters
3.91 avg rating — 13,667 ratings 16. 
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by:
Jim Collins
4.12 avg rating — 277,916 ratings 17. 
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) 4.04 avg rating — 58,900 ratings
18. 
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
by:
Andrew S. Grove
3.98 avg rating — 10,194 ratings 
20. 
Discovering the Soul of Service: The Nine Drivers of Sustainable Business Success
by:
Leonard L. Berry
4.04 avg rating — 377 ratings 21. 
25. 
Toyota Production System: Beyond large-scale production
by:
Taiichi Ohno
4.11 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 26. 
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
by:
Michael Hammer
3.73 avg rating — 4,860 ratings 27. 
28. 
The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company
by:
Jack Stack
3.95 avg rating — 2,684 ratings 29. 
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently 3.94 avg rating — 41,319 ratings
30. 
Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths
by:
Gallup
3.97 avg rating — 27,861 ratings 31. 
The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
by:
Jeffrey Pfeffer
3.96 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 
33. 
Six Thinking Hats: An Essential Approach to Business Management
by:
Edward de Bono
3.71 avg rating — 13,381 ratings 34. 
36. 
A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the 21st Century
by:
Scott Bedbury
3.96 avg rating — 741 ratings 37. 
Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
by:
Harry Beckwith
3.94 avg rating — 9,993 ratings 38. 
Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands
by:
Marty Neumeier
3.99 avg rating — 3,922 ratings 39. 
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers 4.02 avg rating — 30,706 ratings
40. 
Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale: For Anyone Who Must Get Others to Say Yes!
by:
Zig Ziglar
4.16 avg rating — 10,217 ratings 41. 
How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients
by:
Jeffrey J. Fox
3.88 avg rating — 3,876 ratings 42. 
Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond
by:
Paco Underhill
3.88 avg rating — 13,447 ratings 43. 
The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage 3.80 avg rating — 2,627 ratings
44. 
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
by:
Seth Godin
3.78 avg rating — 55,201 ratings 45. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,295 ratings 46. 
48. 
The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action
by:
Robert S. Kaplan
3.91 avg rating — 5,619 ratings 49. 
The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter 3.85 avg rating — 35,884 ratings
50. 
Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits 4.06 avg rating — 825 ratings
51. 
Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots
by:
Chris Zook
3.74 avg rating — 125 ratings 52. 
The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
by:
Jeffrey Gitomer
3.91 avg rating — 10,102 ratings 53. 
What the CEO Wants You to Know : How Your Company Really Works
by:
Ram Charan
3.88 avg rating — 2,925 ratings 
57. 
Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques
by:
Michael Michalko
3.98 avg rating — 4,152 ratings 58. 
More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places 4.08 avg rating — 2,136 ratings
59. 
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,838 ratings
60. 
American Steel: Hot Metal Men and the Resurrection of the Rust Belt
by:
Richard Preston
4.13 avg rating — 262 ratings 
62. 
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
by:
Bethany McLean
4.22 avg rating — 27,094 ratings 63. 
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by:
Roger Lowenstein
4.20 avg rating — 30,805 ratings 
67. 
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett And I Built Our Company
by:
David Packard
3.89 avg rating — 1,506 ratings 
71. 
Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
by:
Richard Branson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,126 ratings 
73. 
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by:
David Allen
4.01 avg rating — 165,263 ratings 74. 
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by:
Peter F. Drucker
4.08 avg rating — 37,231 ratings 
76. 
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
by:
Stephen R. Covey
4.16 avg rating — 801,958 ratings 
78. 
Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition
by:
Harvey MacKay
3.93 avg rating — 6,053 ratings 79. 
The Power of Intuition: How to Use Your Gut Feelings to Make Better Decisions at Work
by:
Gary Klein
3.87 avg rating — 497 ratings 80. 
What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
by:
Po Bronson
3.69 avg rating — 8,627 ratings 
82. 
Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life
by:
Eugene O'Kelly
3.93 avg rating — 3,526 ratings 
84. 
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
by:
Michael Useem
3.89 avg rating — 1,283 ratings 85. 
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations: 25th Anniversary
by:
James M. Kouzes
4.01 avg rating — 14,394 ratings 
87. 
The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership
by:
Steve Farber
3.89 avg rating — 1,261 ratings 
90. 
The Story Factor: Secrets Of Influence From The Art Of Storytelling
by:
Annette Simmons
3.82 avg rating — 2,741 ratings 91. 
93. 
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
by:
Kevin Kelly
4.22 avg rating — 1,700 ratings 94. 
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
by:
Richard Florida
3.68 avg rating — 3,329 ratings 95. 
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
by:
Daniel Goleman
4.05 avg rating — 131,736 ratings 
97. 
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
by:
Henry Petroski
3.68 avg rating — 2,389 ratings 
99. 
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,582 ratings