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1. Execution, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan (Crown)

2. Good to Great, Jim Collins (Harper-Collins)

3. Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham (The Free Press)

4. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Penguin Putnam)

5. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown & Company)

6. Warrior Politics, Robert D. Kaplan Robert D. Kaplan (born 1952) is an American journalist, currently an editor for the Atlantic Monthly. His writings have also been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, The National Interest, and  (Random House)

7. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury (Penguin)

8. Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell, Oren Harari (McGraw-Hill)

9. Leading Change, John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.  Press)

10. 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader, John C. Maxwell (Thomas Nelson)

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1. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher and William Ury (Penguin)

2. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Putnam)

3. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap & Others Don't, Jim Collins (Harper Collins)

4. Excellence in the Boardroom: Best Practices in Corporate Directorship, William Dimma (John Wiley & Sons)

5. In Transition: From the Harvard Business School Club of New York's Personal Seminar in Career Management, by Mary L. Burton and Richard A. Wedemeyer (Harper Collins)

6. Leadership@Work: How to Be an Effective Team Leader Anywhere, Anytime, with Anyone, Harvey Silver and Bart Mindszenthy (Life-Works Books)

7. The Trusted Advisor, David H. Maister, Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford (Touchstone)

8. The Agenda: What Every Business Must Do To Dominate the Decade, by Michael Hammer (Crown)

9. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass)

10. Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale, by Rick Page (Nautilus nautilus, in zoology
nautilus, cephalopod mollusk belonging to the sole surviving genus (Nautilus) of a subclass that flourished 200 million years ago, known as the nautiloids.
 Press)

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1. Globalization globalization

Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation
 and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz Joseph Eugene "Joe" Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist and a member of the Columbia University faculty. He is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal (1979) and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2001).  (Penguin)

2. Free-market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism, William J. Baumol (Princeton University Press)

3. Free Trade Today, Jagdish N. Bhagwati (Princeton University Press)

4. Risky Business, Stuart Poole-Robb (Kogan Page)

5. Reinventing the Bazaar: The Natural History of Markets, John McMillan (Norton)

6. Big Problem of Small Change, Thomas J. Sargent Thomas John "Tom" Sargent (born July 19 1943) is an American economist specializing in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics. He is known as "one of the leaders of the rational expectations revolution" and the author of numerous path-breaking  (Princeton University Press)

7. Good Business: Your World Needs You, Steve Hilton, and Giles Gibbons (Texere Publishing)

8. Beyond Mobile: People, Communications and Marketing in a Mobilized World, Mats Lindgren (MacMillan)

9. Triumph of the Optimists, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, Mike Staunton (Princeton University Press)

10. Leadership the Sven-Goran Eriksson Way: How to turn your team into winners, Julian Birkinshaw, Stuart Crainer (Capstone)

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1. Noch mehr Fish! Die unbegrenzten Einsatzmoglichkeiten eines ungewohnlich erfolgreichen Motivationsbuches [Fish/Tales: Real-life Stories to Help You Transform Your Workplace and Your Life], Stephen C. Ludin, Harry Paul, John Christensen (Ueberreuter Wirtschaftsverlag)

2. Fish! Ein ungewohnliches Motivationsbuch [Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results], Stephen C. Ludin, Harry Paul, John Christensen (Ueberreuter Wirtschaftsverlag)

3. Einfach Managen: Klarheit und Verzicht--der Weg zum Wesentlichen [Simple Management: Clarity and Abstinence--the Path to the Essential], Dieter Brandes (Ueberreuter Wirtschaftsverlag)

4. Unter Pinguinen: Ein tierisches Team-Buch [Peacock in the Land of Penguins], B.J. Gallagher and Warren H. Schmidt (Ueberreuter Wirtschaftsverlag)

5. Die Mause Strategie fur Manager: Veranderungen erfolgreich begegnen [Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life], Spencer Johnson (Ariston)

6. Schwarzbuch Markenfirmen: Die Machenschaften der Weltkonzerne [Black Book of Major Corporations: The Intrigues of Global Corporations], Klaus Werner and Hans Weiss (Deuticke)

7. Schick keine Enten in die Adlerschule: 119 erfrischende Tipps fur smarte Manager [It's Ok to Ask'em to Work: and Other Essential Maxims for Smart Managers], Frank McNair (moderne mo·derne  
adj.
Striving to be modern in appearance or style but lacking taste or refinement; pretentious.



[French, modern, from Old French; see modern.]

Adj. 1.
 industrie)

8. Die sieben Ege zur Effecktivitat: Ein Konzept zur Meisterung Ihres beruflichen und privaten Lebens [The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People], Stephen R. Covey (Heyne)

9. Fuhren, Leisten, Leben: wirksames Management fur eine neue Zeit [To Lead, To Perform, To Live: Effective Management for a New Era], Fredmund Malik (Heyne)

10. Die Schatten der Globalisierung: Nobelpreis fur Wirtschaft [Globalization and Its Discontents], Joseph E. Stiglitz (Siedler)

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1. Les Decisions absurdes [Absurd Decisions], Christian Morel morel

Any of various species of edible mushrooms in the genera Morchella and Verpa. Morels have a convoluted or pitted head, or cap, vary in shape, and occur in diverse habitats. The edible M.
 (Gallimard)

2. Vivre du trading [Live Through Trading], Alexandre Elder (Valor)

3. La Grande Desillusion [Globalization and Its Discontents], Joseph E. Stiglitz, Paul Chembla (Traduction) (Fayard)

4. La Soumission librement consentie: Comment amener les gens gens (jĕnz), ancient Roman kinship group. It was the counterpart of what is known in other societies as a patrilineal clan or sib, and the word has been used in social science as a generic term for such groupings.  a faire ce qu'ils doivent faire? [The Surrender of Free Consent: How to Get People To Act as They Should Act], Robert-Vincent Joule joule (jl, joul), abbr. J, unit of work or energy in the mks system of units, which is based on the metric system; it is the work done or energy expended by a force of 1 newton acting through  and Jean-Leon Beauvois (Presses Universitaires de France)

5. Secrets pour gagner en bourse a la hausse et a la baisse [Secrets to Win in the Stock Market in a Boom and in a Bust] Stan Weinstern (Valor)

6. Pratique pra·tique  
n.
Clearance granted to a ship to proceed into port after compliance with health regulations or quarantine.



[French, from Old French practique, from Medieval Latin
 de MYSQL et PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution.  [Usage of MYSQL and PHP], Philippe Rigaux (O'Reilly (Classique))

7. No logo: La Tyrannie des marques Marques may refer to:
  • marque, or brand name
  • Marqués, a surname
  • A Spanish form of Marquis.
  • ''Marques, a tall ship.
 [No Logo: The Tyrany of Brands], Naomi Klein and Michel Saint-Germain (Traduction) (Acres Sud (Babel))

8. Les sept habitudes de ceux qui realisent tout ce qu'ils entreprennent [The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People], Stephen R Covey (First (Business))

9. Le Manager a l'ecoute du sociologue [The Manager is in tune with the Sociologist], Pierre Morin, Eric Delavallee (Editions d' organisation)

10. Les juifs, le monde n. 1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
Le beau monde
fashionable society. See Beau monde.
Demi monde
See Demimonde.
 et l'argent [The Jews, the World and the Money], Jacques Attali (Fayard)

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1. Jack: Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Warner Books)

2. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser (Penguin Books)

3. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Eliyahu M. Goldratt Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1948 - ) is an Israeli physicist turned business consultant, the originator of the Theory of Constraints (abbreviation: TOC). He claims that he applied the scientific method to resolving some permanent problems of organizations.  and Jeff Cox (North River Press)

4. Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz (W.W. Norton & Co.)

5. Analysis for Financial Management 6th ed., Robert C. Higgins (McGraw-Hill)

6. It's Not Luck, Eliyahu M. Goldratt (North River Press)

7. Can Japan Compete?, Michael E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi and Mariko Sakakibara (Palgrave Macmillan)

8. Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, Spencer Johnson (Vermilion)

9. International Economics 5th Ed., Paul Krugman and Maurice Obstfeld (Longman)

10. Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest In That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter (Warner Books)

ITALY
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1. Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Penguin)

2. George Soros George Soros

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930, George Soros is considered by many to be one of the world's greatest investors. A famous hedge fund manager, Soros managed the Quantum Fund, a fund that achieved an average annual return of 30% from 1970-2000.
 on Globalization, George Soros (Perseus Publishing)

3. Dot.bomb, J. David Kuo (Aurum Press/Little Brown)

4. Strategy Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, Robert S. Kaplan Robert S. Kaplan is Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and co-creator, together with David P. Norton, of the balanced scorecard, a means of linking a company's current actions to its long-term goals.  (Harvard Business School Press)

5. Valuation, Tom Copeland (John Wiley & Sons)

6. Jack: Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch (Warner Bros BROS Brothers
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7. Who Moved My Cheese?, Spencer Johnson (Penguin)

8. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't, Jim Collins (Harper Collins)

9. End of Globalization, Harold James (Harvard University Press The Harvard University Press is a publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in academic publishing. It was established on January 13, 1913. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. )

10. Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, John C. Hull (Prentice Hall)
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