The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books

There's never a shortage of new books about how to be more effective in business. Most of them are forgettable, but here are 25 that changed the way we think about management — from the iconic "How to Win Friends and Influence People" to groundbreaking tomes like "Guerilla Marketing" and quick reads like the "The One Minute Manager".

1. The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy
2. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
3. Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
4. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter
5. Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman
6. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber
7. The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker
8. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge
9. First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
10. The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt
11. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins
12. Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), by Dale Carnegie
14. The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor
15. The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen
16. Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter
17. On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis
18. Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming
19. My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
20. The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
21. Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
22. The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey
23. The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh
24. Toyota Production System (1988), by Taiichi Ohno
25. Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson

Fonte: Site da Revista TIME