2024 the best 100 books of all time review

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Thousands of business books are published every year. Here are the best of the best. After years of reading, evaluating, and selling business books, Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten are among the most respected experts on the category. Now they have chosen and reviewed the 100 best business titles of all time, the ones that deliver the biggest payoff for today's busy readers and listeners.

The 100 Best Business Books of All Time puts each book in context, so that listeners can quickly find solutions to the problems they face, such as how best to spend The First 90 Days in a new job or how to take their company from Good to Great. Many of the choices are surprising - you'll find reviews of Moneyball and Orbiting the Giant Hairball, but not Jack Welch's memoir.

At the end of each review, Jack and Todd direct listeners to other books, both inside and outside "The 100 Best". And sprinkled throughout are "sidebars" suggesting movies, novels, and even children's books that offer equally relevant business insights. This guide will appeal to anyone, from entry-level to CEO, who wants to cut through the clutter and discover the brilliant books that are truly worth and investment of time and money.

Reviewer: John W. Pearson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: No Wasted Words
Review: If a college-age intern asked you this summer to name the 100 best business books of all time, I have a cheat sheet for you. Some of your favorites won't be on this list and you'll likely be unfamiliar with several dozen--but that's a good thing.The co-authors run 800-CEO-READ and have been recommending business books for years--so buying the book was a no-brainer. It called out to me. Reading the book was both mandatory and motivating. The 100 best business books are categorized in 12 sections including: you (strengths, etc.), leadership, strategy, sales and marketing, rules and scorekeeping, management, biographies, entrepreneurship, narratives, innovation and creativity, big ideas and takeaways.I've read 21 of the 100 books. I'm familiar with another 25--and have always wanted to read about half of those. So the value of this book, for me, is having at my finger tips a two-page morsel on each of the 54 books I've never read. If your favorite book is missing, you can recommend it on their website. I've added my own, of course, Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit.Each book summary includes a memorable quote in big, bold type, like "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it," from The Balanced Scorecard. Or, this from Moments of Truth, the classic customer service book by Jan Carlzon, who led the Swedish airline, SAS: "An individual without information cannot take responsibility; an individual who is given information cannot help but take responsibility." And how about this line from The Partnership Charter: How to Start Out Right With Your New Business Partnership (or Fix the One You're In), "A charter is a necessary tool because few people have been taught how to be partners."The co-authors are like fine surgeons in the art of reviewing business books: no wasted words, get to the heart of the matter, get out. Each two-page review delivers the diagnosis and enough medicine to get you moving. Even reading the summary of The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker (one of my personal Top-20 books), gave me new insight and a new one-liner, "Effective executives solve problems once."This book is a treasure, and besides the 100 book summaries, it's jammed with delightful full-page sidebars including a readers' Top-10 poll (The Goal was No. 1), conferences to attend (like the TED conference), an interesting chart on the differences between fables, modern books and classics (with examples), the Top-10 bestselling business books from 2004 to 2008 (Good to Great was No. 1 with 1.4 million sales), six leadership movies, and why The Economist is the only magazine you need to read.

Reviewer: Michael O. Connelly
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Why the need for the obvious black remainder mark???
Review: Despite the fact this hardcover edition was released barely over a years ago, it has already been classified as an Amazon Bargain Book. This is usually an honor reserved for so-so books but this book has been roundly lauded by critics, bloggers, even my friends. Don't misunderstand me... bargain books are GREAT from a price perspective...but I bought this as a birthday gift for a friend and was really disappointed when I saw the in my face black remainder mark on the bottom page edges. When I reviewed the product description, I did indeed see that Amazon cautioned that there might be a small publisher's mark, but I missed this little caveat and didn't expect it on a brand new book so recently released. If I'd have caught the disclaimer, I'd have spent the extra few bucks for a truly new copy of the book that is also available on Amazon for the gift. Then I'd have bought a beat up used copy for myself.

Reviewer: Adam Daniel Mezei
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The new standard in business books catalogues
Review: Time for a little story, folks. The tale of how I fortunately came across this meisterstück (the "masterpiece") in the first place...::: I know, the suspense is slaying you! :::So one day I'm listening to Wayne "The Cranky Middle Manager Himself" Turmel's world-beating podcast when he ever-so-delicately slips in the plug for our good friends Jack and Todd over at the friendly confines of 800-CEO-Read. I'd never heard of the boys from Milwaukee before until I let my fast-as-flight fingers "do da walking," comme on dit.With nary a minute to spare, I hopped onto the interwebs and scored a fresh juicy copy off Amazon's UK affiliate (who says the "Special Relationship" is dead?), and within days I was building up my finger callouses flipping frantically through this treasure trove's pages, devouring the words printed on the several hundred legacies of downed primeval forests. Um...perhaps let's not go there...Why do I dig this book, you ask? Well, for one, the concept's never been done before.Second, if you're anything like me (and I'm guessing if you're reading this then you are), you've likely had a difficult time keeping your tickler file updated with the thousand-and-one books your friends and colleagues have been raving about as "gotta have-must reads."Between my Amazon Wish List, my scrapbook, my laptop, and the caverns of my ailing grey matter, that's more titles than any Chromosomal Unit can shake a stick at. Ergo, the advent of "100 Best."Jack & Todd's book removes all this organizational trouble. FYI, my personal copy gravitated from my nighttable/laptop bag/hipside to colonized center stage on my desk. Slowly, but surely, I've been going through the titles of interest and literally feeling my synapses firing off. My brain is GROWING!For the record, I shared my copy...so I had to buy a new one. That's how "sticky" this read was! Oh yes!I found only two problems with "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time" -- one, the omission of page totals in the footers might have better crystallized my choices of "what to read next," better enabling me to determine how long it would take me to complete a read instead of hopping online to Amazon for more details.Two, what are Jack Covert & Todd Sattersten going to do for an encore?! Egad!Does it get any better than this? Not according to this here reader.

Reviewer: G. Strout
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: 100 Best Business Books of all Time (review)
Review: Pros - Every book is covered in less than 3 pages - Some of the main key points from the book are covered and discussedNeutral - Every book is covered in less than 3 pages - regardless of the length or content of the book - Subjective comments are included to put the concepts into context (e.g. "To excel in business you need to rise above your peers and be noticed for all the right reasons.)Cons - Not all of the major points of the book are covered - Could present book material more objectively

Reviewer: Eduardo X
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I too share passion for bussiness books and I stumbled at The100best during my research.At the beginning I believed it could be just a "saved list for referemces" but the authors surprised me delivering value over the already valued worked. I believe Bill Gates is learning about reviewing books with them. KkkBut some of the reviewed books I already read and I can say is not about spoiler either. Each book explained with rich information with a little biograph, history about the time the books was published or written.At the end I felt silly and happy because it improved my about select what's next to read. Fantastic just loved.

Reviewer: Nicola
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: (+)- Very good idea to group the books inside the main Management themes: Entrepreneurship, Sales and marketing, etc.(-)- All the books (except one) are American, in my opinion some important non-American authors are missing.- Poor realization of the book: very small characters printed on a poor quality paper (you might experience problems to … read this book).

Reviewer: Gopi
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: The book is fabulous but returned it because the printing & paper quality is simply terrible.

Reviewer: Sergio Rodrigues
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: O livro abrange, de forma sintética, os principais bestsellers de negócios de todos os tempo, constituindo-se num excelente guia para os que querem se aprofundar na leitura de cada um deles. Além disso, tem um capítulo adicional extremamente útil sobre como tirar o melhor proveito da leitura de livros de não ficção

Reviewer: Yogender Singh
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Waste of money. I assumed that it will have key excerpts from the top 100 business books. But it just have authors opinion of various books