What business book has had the most impact on YOUR business, that you would recommend that

others in this LeanCEO group read?

# Book Author
1 Better Thinking, Better Results Bob Emiliani
2 Gemba Walks J im Womack
3 The Toyota Way J effrey K. Liker
4 Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way J effrey K. Liker and Michael Hoseus
5 The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance J effrey K. Liker and J ames K. Franz
6 The Toyota Way Fieldbook J effrey K. Liker and David Meier
7 Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity J effrey K. Liker and Timothy N. Ogden
8 Lean Production Simplified Pascal Dennis
9 New Shop Floor Management: Empowering People for Continuous Improvement Kiyoshi Suzaki
10 Understanding A3 Thinking: A Critical Component of Toyota's PDCA Management System Durward K. Sobek II. and Art Smalley
11 The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization J ohn C. Maxwell
12 The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Eliyahu M. Goldratt and J eff Cox
13 Leading Change J ohn P. Kotter
14 Six Sigma Tool Navigator: The Master Guide for Teams Walter J . Michalski
15 Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, RamCharan and Charles
Burck
16 First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
17 Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
18 The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership J ames C. Hunter
19 Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
20 Peak Performance: Aligning the Hearts and Minds of Your Employees J on R. Katzenbach
21 Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity David Allen
22 How to Become a Rainmaker: The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients J effrey J . Fox
23 Selling to VITO: the Very Important Top Officer Anthony Parinello
24 The Platinum Rule: Discover the Four Basic Business Personalities Tony Alessandra
25 The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology Decisions to Create Sustainable Success
Faisal Hoque, Lawrence M. Walsh,
Diana L. Mirakaj and J effrey Bruckner
26 My Life and Work Henry Ford
27 Today and Tomorrow Henry Ford
28 Moving Forward Henry Ford
29 Shop Management Frederick Winslow Taylor
30 Safer Than a Known Way J ohn S. McConnell
31 Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't J im Collins
32 The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter F. Drucker
33 Creating a Lean Culture: Tools to Sustain Lean Conversions David Mann
34 Getting the Right Things Done: A Leader's Guide to Planning and Execution Pascal Dennis
35 Making Six Sigma Last: Managing the Balance Between Cultural and Technical Change George Eckes
36 Built To Last: Successful Habits Of Visionary Companies J im Collins and J erry I. Porras
37 The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production
J ames P. Womack, Daniel T. J ones and
Daniel Roos
38 Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation J ames P. Womack and Daniel T. J ones
39 The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli
40 Uplifting Business Performance and the Human Spirit - 30 Per Cent Improvement in Productivity in 2 Days Sid J oynson and Andrew Forrester
41 Zapp! The Lightning of Empowerment: How to Improve Productivity, Quality, and Employee Satisfaction William Byham and J eff Cox
42 Theory of Constraints Eliyahu M. Goldratt
43 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell
44 Leading the Lean Enterprise Transformation George Koenigsaecker
45 Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change Louis V. Gerstner, J r.
46 Managing Sideways Price Pritchett
47 The Loafer Principle: The Success Secrets of the Men Who Wear Tasseled Loafers Kirk J . Gould
48 In Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas Best-Run Companies
Thomas J . Peters and Robert H.
Waterman, J r.
49 Competing for the Future Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
50 The Hitchhiker's Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road J amie Flinchbaugh and Andy Carlino
51 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Edward R. Tufte
52 All I Need to Know About Manufacturing I Learned in J oe's Garage: World Class Manufacturing Made Simple William B. Miller and Vicki L. Schenk
53 Quick Changeover for Operators: The SMED System Shigeo Shingo
54 Zero Quality Control: Source Inspection and the Poka-Yoke System Shigeo Shingo
55 World Class Quality: Using Design of Experiments to Make It Happen Keki R. Bhote and Adi K. Bhote
What business book has had the most impact on YOUR business, that you would recommend that others in this LeanCEO group read?
# Book Author
56 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Patrick Lencioni
57 The Pinocchio Principle: Becoming the Leader You Were Born to Be Diane Bolden
58 Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Chip Heath and Dan Heath
59 Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performance Dee J acob, Suzan Bergland and J eff Cox
60 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey
61 Viral Change Leandro Herrero
62 Homo Imitans: The Art of Social Infection: Viral Change in Action Leandro Herrero
63 On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry J ohn Toussaint and Roger A. Gerard
64 High Probability Selling J acques Werth and Nicholas E. Reuben
65 Rework
J ason Fried and David Heinemeier
Hansson
66 Freedom from Command and Control: Rethinking Management for Lean Service J ohn Seddon
67 Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Seth Godin
68 The Business Side of Creativity: The Complete Guide for Running a Graphic Design or Communications Business Cameron S. Foote