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Feb 6, 2013

Top 10 Influential Business Books of All Time

 

1. Reengineering the Corporation (1993)

Hammer and Champy's "manifesto" obliterated the implicit social contract between employers and employees. Gone were the notions of lifetime employment and corporate loyalty, replaced by an endless regimen of downsizing, rightsizing, outsourcing, and offshoring.

Fun fact: The current biz-blab terminology for "reengineering" (i.e. layoffs) is "ventilating the organization."  Nice, eh?

Readers, what other books should have made this list? Leave a comment!

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