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The following lists books we found interesting and useful:

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari

  • 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism – Ha-Joon Chang

  • A History of Economics – John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Albert Einstein – Arthur Beckhard

  • A Short History of Financial Euphoria – John Kenneth Galbraith

  • Assessing Projects – ICI Ltd

  • Average is Over – Professor Tyler Cowen

  • Back from the Brink – Michael Edwardes

  • Barbarians at the Gate – Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

  • Blink – Malcolm Gladwell

  • Boomerang – Michael Lewis

  • Built to Last – James Collins & Jerry Porras

  • Business at the Speed of Thought – Bill Gates

  • Can you succeed in business and still go to heaven – Lynda King Taylor

  • Competitive Advantage – Michael Porter

  • Concept of the Corporation – Peter Drucker

  • Connected – Nicholas Christakis & James Fowler

  • Corporate Strategy – Igor Ansoff

  • Creating Shareholder Value – Alfred Rappaport

  • Critical Chain – Eliyahu Goldratt

  • Customer Mania – Ken Blanchard

  • Cybernetics and Management – Stafford Beer

  • Deming and Goldratt – Lepore and Cohen

  • Flash Boys – Michael Lewis

  • Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Taleb

  • Freakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

  • Freedom from Command & Control – John Seddon

  • Further up the Organisation – Bob Townsend

  • Happiness – Richard Layard

  • High Output Management – Andy Grove

  • Homo Deus – Dr Yuval Noah Harari

  • How Life Imitates Chess – Garry Kasparov

  • Iacocca, an autobiography – Lee Iacocca & William Novak

  • Imagination Engineering – Birch & Clegg

  • Influence – Robert Cialdini

  • Innovation & Entrepreneurship – Peter Drucker

  • In Search of Excellence – Peters & Waterman

  • Inside Organisations – Charles Handy

  • Investing against the tide – Anthony Bolton

  • I want you to cheat – John Seddon

  • Juran on Quality by Design – Joseph Juran

  • Justice – What’s the right thing to do? – Michael Sandel

  • Kaisen – The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success – Masaaki Imai

  • Learning from Failure – Fortune & Peters

  • Lincoln & Churchill – Lewis E Lehrman

  • Longitude – Dava Sobel

  • Making It Happen – John Harvey-Jones

  • Management – Stephen Robbins & Mary Coulter

  • Management by Objectives – John Humble

  • Management Challenges for the 21st Century – Peter Drucker

  • Management in 10 words – Terry Leahy

  • Managerial Breakthrough – Joseph Juran

  • Manager’s Handbook – Robert Heller

  • Managing Change – Colin Carnall

  • Managing Change – Mabey & Mayon-White

  • Managing for Results – Peter Drucker

  • Managing for the Future – Peter Drucker

  • Managing in a Time of Great Change – Peter Drucker

  • Managing Information – Hugh Garai

  • Managing the Survival of Smaller Companies – AG Hazel

  • Managing Transitions – Bill Bridges

  • Mao’s Great Famine – Frank Dikotter

  • Marketing – Colin McIver

  • Mastering Information Management – Marchand, Davenport

  • Mastery – Robert Greene

  • Mathematical Programming – Steven Vajda

  • Mathematical Statistics – CE Weatherburn

  • Megatrends – John Naisbitt

  • More human – Steve Hilton

  • Murphy’s Law – Arthur Bloch

  • My Years at General Motors – Alfred Sloan

  • Only the Paranoid Survive – Andy Grove

  • Operations Management – Harrison, Swift & Gillespie

  • Operations Research – Sasieni, Yaspan, Friedman

  • Organisational Performance Excellence – Thomas Cartin

  • Out of the Crisis – W Edwards Deming

  • Outliers – The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell

  • Philosophy for Pleasure – Hector Hawton

  • Planning and Managing Change – Kogan Page

  • Power and Terror – Noam Chomsky

  • Principle-Centred Leadership – Stephen Covey

  • Probability and Statistics – Hines & Montgomery

  • Process Quality Management & Improvement Guidelines – AT&T

  • Production Management – Raymond R Mayer

  • Productivity Plus – John Belcher Junior, American Productivity Center

  • Project Management – Rory Burke

  • Quality Circles – Michael Robson

  • Quality is Free – Philip Crosby

  • Quality without Tears – Philip B Crosby

  • Re-Imagine – Tom Peters

  • Relevance Lost – Johnson & Kaplan

  • Running Things – Philip B Crosby

  • Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind – Dr Yuval Noah Harari

  • Seeing what others don’t – Gary Klein

  • Squandered – David Craig

  • Statistical Theory – BW Lindgren

  • Statistics without tears – Derek Rowntree

  • Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson

  • Strategic Management – James Craig & Robert Grant

  • Strategic Management & Information Systems – Wendy Robson

  • SuperFreakonomics – Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

  • Systems Thinking in the Public Sector – John Seddon

  • Talent – Tom Peters

  • Talking Straight – Lee Iacocca

  • The 50th Law – 50 Cent & Robert Greene

  • The Accidental Theorist – Paul Krugman

  • The Art of Coarse Rugby – Michael Green

  • The Art of Japanese Management – Richard Pascale & Tony Athos

  • The Balanced Scorecard – Kaplan & Norton

  • The Big Short – Michael Lewis

  • The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Taleb

  • The Bottom Billion – Paul Collier

  • The Change Masters – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  • The Circle of Innovation – Tom Peters

  • The Cost Disease – William J Baumol

  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Jean-Dominique Bauby

  • The Drunkard’s Walk – Leonard Mlodinow

  • The Economics of Innocent Fraud – John Kenneth Galbraith

  • The Effective Executive – Peter Drucker

  • The Essays of Warren Buffett – Lawrence Cunningham

  • The Five-day course in Thinking – Edward de Bono

  • The Frontiers of Management – Peter Drucker

  • The Fun Minute Manager – Bob Pike

  • The Goal – Goldratt and Cox

  • The Hidden Persuaders – Vance Packard

  • The Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham

  • The Knowledge Dividend – Tissen et alia

  • The Law and the Profits – C Northcote Parkinson

  • The Learning Company – Pedler, Burgoyne & Boydell

  • The Limits to Growth – Club of Rome

  • The Little Book that Beats the Market – Joel GreenBlatt

  • The Little Book of Behavioral Investing – James Montier

  • The New Edge in Knowledge – Carla O’Dell

  • The One Minute Manager – Kenneth Blanchard

  • The Practice of Management – Peter Drucker

  • The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell

  • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey

  • The Success Culture – Munro-Faure

  • The Time Trap – Alec MacKenzie

  • The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

  • The Tyranny of Numbers – David Boyle

  • The Undoing Project – Michael Lewis

  • The Wealth of Knowledge – Thomas Stewart

  • The Winning Streak – Goldsmith & Clutterbuck

  • The Wisdom of Crowds – James Surowiecki

  • The Work Challenge – John Garnett

  • Think like a freak – Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner

  • Think Twice – Michael J Mauboussin

  • Toyota – Shigeo Shingo

  • Turnaround – Nelson & Clutterbuck

  • UK Productivity – Closing the Gap – Dick Smythe, Andrew Sentance

  • Understanding Knowledge Management – John MacDonald

  • Understanding Organisations – Charles Handy

  • Up the Organisation – Robert Townsend

  • We all fall down (Goldratt & TOC) – Julie Wright & Russ King

  • Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

  • Wellington – Richard Holmes

  • What money can’t buy – The moral limits of markets – Michael Sandel

  • What the dog saw – Malcolm Gladwell

  • What Works – Hamish McRae

  • Who killed change – Ken Blanchard

  • Winning – Jack Welch

  • Winning in Turbulence – James Allen, Bains & Company

  • Work Study – RM Currie

  • Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment – William C Byham