The 30 Book MBA in Entrepreneurship

As inspired by Seth's Blog: Part of the 30?, a modest suggestion of 30 books to get you pointed in the right direction for an MBA in Entrepreneurship (alphabetically by author):

* Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

* Robert Coram: John Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

* Dale Dauten: The Gifted Boss: How to Find, Create and Keep Great Employees

* Roger Dawson: The Secrets Of Power Negotiating: How To Gain The Upper Hand In Any Negotiation

* Peter F. Drucker: The Effective Executive Revised

* Peter F. Drucker: The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

* Charles H. Ferguson: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars

* Milton Friedman: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

* Michael E. Gerber: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

* Malcolm Gladwell: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

* Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

* Seth Godin: Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

* Seth Godin: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

* Seth Godin: Unleashing the Ideavirus

* Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

* Henry Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson

* Guy Kawasaki: Selling the Dream

* Guy Kawasaki: The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything

* Randy Komisar: The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

* Michael Lewis: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

* Aaron Lynch: Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society

* Geoffrey A. Moore: Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

* Geoffrey A. Moore: Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge

* Al Ries, Jack Trout: Bottom-Up Marketing

* Al Ries, Jack Trout: Marketing Warfare

* Al Ries, Jack Trout: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

* Randall E. Stross: Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

* Linus Torvalds: Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

* Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

* U. S. Marine Corps Staff: Warfighting: The United States Marine Corps

UPDATES! More good stuff at:
* Josh Kaufman: Inside My Bald Head: The Josh Kaufman "Personal MBA" Program
* Confessions of a Brand Evangelist: Top 10 Brand Books (Seth Godin's MBA Program in Action)
* blahgkarma: Higher Learning...
* 800-CEO-READ Blog: Design Thinking Books
* Life Beyond Code :: MBA or no MBA??
* mathcaddy.com: Any more degrees?
* BizzBangBuzz - entrepreneur & small business blog of technology attorney Anthony Cerminaro: Thirty Book MBA in Entrepreneurship
* Steve Shu's Blog: MBA vs. Books? What About EMBA?
* Luca9200's blog: The real value of an MBA degree
* HELLO, my name is BLOG: Scott's Personal MBA Reading List
* The Jaldous Journal: Talking about Josh Kaufman: Inside My Bald Head: The Josh Kaufman "Personal MBA" Program
* Alltheseideas.com: Books Archives
* Ninja Monkeys! - Expanding Brain Book Club
* Outhouse Day Job - What cost an MBA?
* And the visuals (thanks to Business Opportunities Weblog for the inspiration!):

Comments

[Phil]

Great to see Robert Coram's biography of fighter pilot and military theorist John Boyd here. Boyd thumbed his nose at the Pentagon greasy-pole climbers and challenged his acolytes with the question 'Do you want to be somebody (status, rank, privileges) or do something (leave a dent in the universe)?'

This is a book that is both inspirational and instructive. Oh, and Boyd propounded a theory that has revolutionised warfare and will change the way you think about business.

[Steve Shu]

Thanks for putting together the list. I am debating whether to read Blink or one of Seth's books next. Will sort of depend on how I feel about Seth on a particular day ... ;)

[Evelyn Rodriguez]

Very good list. I'm sure I'm leaving some crucial book out, but I'd also recommend: Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler, A Brand New World by Scott Bedbury, and Marketing Without Advertising, by Michael Phillips & Salli Rasberry.

[Darren]

Hey, Thanks for this list, there's a few titles in here I don't have yet!

I looked at lots of MBA courses before realising I could educate myself in everything I was looking for, mainly be ingesting all the wonderful information on management, leadership and entrepreneurship to be found on the internet.

[Saurabh Kaushik]

[..]College can teach you “science of entrepreneurship”. But the art, “application of principals of science”, is very much individual attitude. This is where the difference lies between management graduate and street smart entrepreneur. Why?? In decision making, the graduate will heavily rely on historical events, index patterns, market data or future predications, but later one will just rely beats of the street, people day-to-day problem and his vision to tap it.[..]

[Saurabh Kaushik]
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