The Best Business & Money Books 2026

1. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly,In keeping with the parable style, Lencioni (The Five Temptations of a CEO) begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). Succinct yet sympathetic, this guide will be a boon for those struggling with the inherent difficulties of leading a group. 100,000 first printing. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Author: Patrick Lencioni ISBN: 9780787960759 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 4/11/2002

2. The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership, (Paperback)

Leadership can be a heavy load, wearing you down over time. In The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day, you will learn the daily habit that can transform your leadership and organization from the world's #1 leadership expert. John Maxwell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker, gives the roadmap to becoming a more principled and effective leader. Each chapter offers simple to read and understand laws of leadership, inspired by Maxwell's The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, the bestselling leadership book of all time. These pages are filled with practical insights and memorable tips that can be easily incorporated into your daily routine. Whether you're an executive, a pastor, or a leader in any capacity, this guide will empower you to lead with integrity and purpose. In 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day, you will get: Daily Leadership Lessons: Each chapter introduces a new rule of leadership to live by, making it easy to integrate into your daily routine. Proven Strategies: Based on the best-selling The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, this book offers tried-and-true methods to enhance your leadership skills. Transformative Insights: Practical and simple advice that can change not only your day but your entire life as a leader. Maxwell's wisdom is not only easy to read but also profoundly transformative. By setting aside just 21 minutes a day, you'll embark on a journey that will revitalize your spirit and sharpen your leadership skills. Imagine the impact of daily reflection and devotion, guided by principles that have influenced Fortune 500 companies, international governments, and world-renowned organizations! Dive into The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day and unlock your full potential as a leader, one powerful minute at a time.

The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's Day: Revitalize Your Spirit and Empower Your Leadership, (Paperback) Author: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 9780785289272 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2007-09-16 Page Count: 384

3. 101 for Small Business Series: Finance & Grow Your New Business : Get a grip on the money (Paperback)

Entrepreneurs need to know how to measure the effectiveness of their operations, human resources and marketing in order to pinpoint inefficiencies and maximize profits. This book outlines all the ways to raise capital and then make it work for you!

When it's time for the business to expand, Finance and Manage Your Business Growth outlines all the ways that one can raise capital. Learn how to grow your small business using sound financial planning: Raise capital for your small business Measure risk and plan for profitability Grow your small business profitably Entrepreneurs need to know how to measure the effectiveness of their operations, human resources and marketing in order to pinpoint inefficiencies and maximize profits. This book outlines all the ways to raise capital and then make it work for you! Many small business owners aren’t able to take that next big step in expanding operations. This book shows you how to raise money to finance expansion, how to analyze key factors in your financial information and develop ratios of return on investment that will indicate the direction you should take your business. Finance & Manage Your Business Growth explains, in easy-to-understand terms, how to get the money you need for your business, and how to grow your business profitably.

4. How to Negotiate Anything with Anyone Anywhere Around the World (Paperback)

This long-trusted guide provides you with the savvy knowledge and skills you need to negotiate with ease, no matter where you are or who you are talking with. The ups and downs of negotiating can be challenging enough at home. Then, when people put themselves in another country--where the customs and conventions are often radically different--they've got a recipe for awkwardness and confusion at best, disappointment and disaster at worst. How to Negotiate Anything with Anyone Anywhere Around the World provides expert advice on: business practices, transactions, and attitudes throughout the world. Now expanded to include 63 countries, the book reflects changes in the international scene as well as current topics like foreign outsourcing and multicultural work teams that increasingly characterize present-day work relationships. Organized in an easy-to-access, quick-reference format, this bestselling guide is a passport to worldwide negotiation skills--and greater business success.

How to Negotiate Anything with Anyone Anywhere Around the World (Paperback)

5. Introduction to Manufacturing Processes and Materials, (Hardcover)

The first manufacturing book to examine time-based break-even analysis, this landmark reference/text applies cost analysis to a variety of industrial processes, employing a new, problem-based approach to manufacturing procedures, materials, and management. An Introduction to Manufacturing Processes and Materials integrates analysis of material costs and process costs, yielding a realistic, effective approach to planning and executing efficient manufacturing schemes. It discusses tool engineering, particularly in terms of cost for press work, forming dies, and casting patterns, process parameters such as gating and riser design for casting, feeds, and more.

Introduction to Manufacturing Processes and Materials, (Hardcover) Author: CRC Press ISBN: 9780824799144 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 1999-03-03 Page Count: 412

6. Financial Accounting as a Second Language, (Paperback)

Accounting may be challenging, but with training and practice students can come out of a financial accounting course having achieved success! With David Weiner's Financial Accounting as a Second Language, students will get the practice and training they need to better understand fundamental principles, build confidence, and solve problems. The goal of this title is to: introduce the language of accounting, explain the core concepts of accounting, and learn how to apply these core concepts to solve accounting problems. Developed by David Weiner through his forty year teaching career, this text is filled with study skills, techniques, and strategies used help students learn the core concepts of accounting and get the grades they deserve.

Financial Accounting as a Second Language, (Paperback) Author: Wiley ISBN: 9780470043882 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2008-08-01 Page Count: 320

7. How to Make Millions with Your Ideas : An Entrepreneur's Guide (Paperback)

You've come up with a brilliant idea for a brand-new product or service you know could make you rich. Or maybe you currently own a business that pays the bills, and your dream is to become fabulously successful and retire a millionaire. But how? How to Make Millions with Your Ideas has all the answers. This book is packed with the true stories and proven advice of ordinary people who began with just an idea, a simple product, or a fledgling business and wound up with millions. It examines the methods and principles of dozens of successful entrepreneurs, including author Dan Kennedy's surefire, easy-to-follow Millionaire Maker Strategies. It helps you determine which of three paths to success are best for you and guides you step-by-step down that path on your way to fortune. Discover: - The eight best ways to make a fortune from scratch - How to turn a hobby into a million-dollar enterprise - How to sell an existing business for millions - The power of electronic media to help make you rich - The "Million Dollar Rolodex" of contacts and information you can use to get on the road to wealth

You’ve come up with a brilliant idea for a brand-new product or service you know could make you rich. Or maybe you currently own a business that pays the bills, and your dream is to become fabulously successful and retire a millionaire. But how? How to Make Millions with Your Ideas has all the answers. This book is packed with the true stories and proven advice of ordinary people who began with just an idea, a simple product, or a fledgling business and wound up with millions. It examines the methods and principles of dozens of successful entrepreneurs, including author Dan Kennedy’s surefire, easy-to-follow Millionaire Maker Strategies. It helps you determine which of three paths to success are best for you and guides you step-by-step down that path on your way to fortune. Discover: · The eight best ways to make a fortune from scratch · How to turn a hobby into a million-dollar enterprise · How to sell an existing business for millions · The power of electronic media to help make you rich · The “Million Dollar Rolodex” of contacts and information you can use to get on the road to wealth

8. World Class Manufacturing (Paperback)

Since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping, managers have judged a company's worth by sales and profits. Now Richard Schonberger exposes the fallacies of this timeless practice. Schonberger's pathbreaking new research reveals that, from 1950 to 1995, while "financials" dipped and soared repeatedly, industrial decline and ascendancy correlated perfectly with inventory turnover -- one of two key nonfinancial indicators and a bedrock measure, along with customer satisfaction, of a company's power, strength, and value. In this immensely readable book, he captures these new metrics -- the true predictions of future success -- in 16 customer-focused principles created from self-scored reports supplied by over 100 pioneering manufacturers in nine countries. Armed with new world-class benchmark data, Schonberger redefines excellence in terms of competence, capability, and customer-focused, employee-driven, data-based performance.

In his best-selling book Japanese Manufacturing Techniques, Richard J. Schonberger revolutionized American manufacturing theory and, more important, practice. In that breakthrough book, he revealed that Japanese manufacturing excellence was not culturally bound. Offering the first demystified explanation of the simple techniques that fueled Japan's industrial success, he demonstrated how the same methods could be put to work as effectively in U.S. plants. Now, in World Class Manufacturing, Schonberger returns to tell the success stories of nearly 100 American corporations -- including Hewlett-Packard, Harley-Davidson, General Motors, Honeywell, and Uniroyal -- that have adopted the famed just-in-time production and "total quality control" strategies. Based on his firsthand experience as a major consultant to American industry, he examines how they did it -- and illustrates how the same concrete, specific steps used by these top companies can be implemented in any factory today. What's more, Schonberger shows that his bold concepts and reforms apply equally to all industries, whether the product is computers, pasta, or trucks, and to all divisions -- from manufacturing and engineering to accounting and marketing. According to Schonberger, world-class manufacturing depends on blended management -- rather than domination by a separate group of managers -- which marshalls resources for continual rapid improvement. To achieve world-class status, companies must change procedures and concepts, which in turn leads to recasting relations among suppliers, purchasers, producers, and customers. Acknowledging the difficulty inherent in such changes, Schonberger stresses that employee involvement and interaction, both on the shop floor and in the decision-making/problem-solving process, is key. Wary of those who view improvement in terms of modernizing equipment, he points out that making maximum use of people and current machinery is a company's first priority; automation, if necessary, should come much later. World Class Manufacturing also includes Schonberger's 17-point action agenda to guide innovators toward manufacturing excellence, from getting to know the customer to cutting the number of suppliers, reducing error in production, and deciding when and how to automate. Indispensable for all manufacturing innovators who aim to keep ahead of the competition, this inspiring, groundbreaking volume does much more than just recommend or theorize about the new manufacturing approach. Plainly, realistically, and logically, it explains how it's done.

9. Introduction to Rhetorical Communication, (Paperback)

An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication offers a true integration of rhetorical theory and social science approaches to public communication. This highly successful text guides students through message planning and presentation in an easy step-by-step process. An Introduction to Rhetorical Communication provides students with a solid grounding in the rhetorical tradition and the basis for developing effective messages.

Introduction to Rhetorical Communication, (Paperback) Author: Routledge ISBN: 9780205453511 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2005-06-10 Page Count: 352

10. McKinsey Mind, (Hardcover)

The groundbreaking follow-up to the international bestsellera hands-on guide to putting McKinsey techniques to work in your organization McKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business readers just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey. Now, hot on the heels of his acclaimed international bestseller The McKinsey Way, Ethan Rasiel brings readers a powerful new guide to putting McKinsey concepts and skills into actionThe McKinsey Mind. While the first book used case studies and anecdotes from former and current McKinseyites to describe how "the firm" solves the thorniest business problems of their A-list clients, The McKinsey Mind goes a giant step further. It explains, step-by-step, how to use McKinsey tools, techniques and strategies to solve an array of core business problems and to make any business venture more successful. Designed to work as a stand-alone guide or together with The McKinsey Way, The McKinsey Mind follows the same critically acclaimed style and format as its predecessor. In this book authors Rasiel and Friga expand upon the lessons found in The McKinsey Way with real-world examples, parables, and easy-to-do exercises designed to get readers up and running.

McKinsey Mind, (Hardcover) Author: McGraw-Hill Companies ISBN: 9780071374293 Format: Hardcover Publication Date: 2001-10-17 Page Count: 240