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Stan Slap, Author of "Bury My Heart in Conference Room B"

The author, who hopes to redraw the potential for managerial success, talks about integrating personal values into your leadership style.  Watch video

Holiday Gift Guide 2010: My Business Books Wish List

We asked and you tweeted. Here are the books Inc. readers said they want most for the holidays.  View slideshow

How to Build a Bulletproof Company Culture

Author Pat Lencioni lays out how to build a culture that will endure long after you've left your business.  Read more

Review: MacroWikinomics

In their recent book, MacroWikinomics , authors Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams highlight organizations that are embracing Wikinomics.  Read more

Review: You Already Know How to Be Great

Author Alan Fine writes about how we should rely on what we already know to be successful.  Read more

Review: The Watchman's Rattle

Author Rebecca D. Costa explores how to adapt our brains to optimize problem solving.  Read more

Review: What Technology Wants

Author Kevin Kelly coins the term "technium" and breaks down conventional thinking about technology.  Read more

Review: Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson identifies seven patterns that help innovative thinking.  Read more

Review: Resonate

Author Nancy Duarte explains the methodology to make any type of presentation connect better with an audience.  Read more

Review: The Mesh

Lisa Gansky identifies the characteristics of "mesh" businesses like Netflix and Zipcar.  Read more

Review: Still Surprised

After writing twenty-seven books on business thought, Warren Bennis shares his leadership story.  Read more

Review: Bury My Heart at Conference Room B

Stan Slap had penned one of the smartest and most compelling books on leadership.  Read more

Review: Brains on Fire

The authors clearly defines the distinction between campaigns and movements.  Read more

Review: The Man Who Sold America

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and Arthur W. Schultz have written about a real-life Don Draper in the ad world.  Read more

John Kotter on Selling Your Vision

Harvard Business School professor John Kotter suggests an unorthodox way to build support for a new idea.  Read more

Lessons From Nightmare Bosses

Author Robert Sutton suggests tips for producing inspiration, rather than desperation, in your employees.  Read more

Review: Power

In his book, Power: Why Some People Have It - and Other Don't , Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer explains what it takes to gain power and why ambit...  Read more

Review: The Zeroes

Randall Lane is not afraid to name names in his book about the decade of financial excess.  Read more

Review: Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business

Nancy Lublin uses her non-profit experience to inspire for-profit businesses.  Read more

Review: Diary of a Very Bad Year

Keith Gessen turned interviews with a hedge fund manager into one of the best books written about the Wall Street calamity.  Read more

Review: The Upside of Irrationality

Dan Ariely's second book about defying conventional logic makes for a great beach read.  Read more

Review: Delivering Happiness

In his new book, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh describes ways to create the best customer experience.  Read more

Review: Click

Authors Ori and Rom Brafman follow-up their bestseller with a look at what brings people together.  Read more

Review: The 2020 Workplace

Authors Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd describe ways companies can attract and retain innovative thinkers in a multigenerational workforce.  Read more

Review: Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit

According to authors Leonardo Inghilleri and Micah Solomon, loyal customers are like family. Their book Exceptional Service, Exceptional Profit explor...  Read more

Review: The Responsibility Revolution

In The Responsibility Revolution, Seventh Generation founder Jeffrey Hollender makes the case for sustainability.  Read more

How to Achieve Predictable Success

Why is it that in many cases, winners continue to win? What are they doing right that propels them into more and more wins? I'm an entrepreneur, just like...  Read more

Review: Rework

In the book Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hanssone of 37signals take a critical look at marketing, hiring, and other practices associated with bui...  Read more

Review: Fascinate

In her new book, Fascinate , Sally Hogshead introduces the idea that marketers must do more than impress customers — they have to be truly fascinating.  Read more

The Best Books for Business Owners of 2009

A look at the most helpful, interesting, and entertaining business books of 2009, including the latest from Jim Collins, Malcolm Gladwell, and Tim Brown of I...  View slideshow

Review: Drive

In his new book Drive, author Daniel H. Pink explores the complex relationship among corporate culture, employee motivation, and job satisfaction.  Read more

The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z

Peter Drucker is known as the father of management. On the 100th anniversary of his birth, a look at his many contributions.  Read more

The Real Ayn Rand

A groundbreaking new biography paints a surprising -- and surprisingly lurid -- picture of the writer and thinker  Read more

Review: Change by Design

Inc. reviews Change by Design by Tim Brown, a book about innovation in service.  Read more

Review: The Cost of Bad Behavior

In The Cost of Bad Behavior, Christine Pearson and Christine Porath argue that office incivility is contagious  Read more

Review: In Pursuit of Elegance

Author Mathew E. May writes about the virtues of simplicity and symmetry in solving business problems  Read more

The Business Owner's Bookshelf

30 books you should read and put to use  Read more

The Peter Principle Lives On

Forty years after The Peter Principle's publication, a look back on the landmark book by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull  Read more

A Skimmer's Guide to the Latest Business Books

The book: It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For: Why Every Extraordinary Business Is Driven by Purpose , by Roy M. Spen...  Read more

A Skimmer's Guide to the Latest Business Books: Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business

The book: Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business, by David Edery and Ethan Mollick; FT Press...  Read more