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04.04.06

What Makes a Business Classic?

ACCORDING to the Financial Times it is the business book that provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues,FT2006 including management, finance, and economics. Today the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs launched the Business Book of the Year Award. The winner will receive an award of £30,000, and the five remaining shortlisted authors will receive £5,000 each. The prize is, if nothing else, a spur for writers to raise their game. The 2005 winner was The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman.

Simon London, the Financial Times management editor, lists his five great business books:

  • My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan, 1963
  • The Age of Discontinuity by Peter Drucker, 1969
  • In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, 1982
  • The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge, 1990
  • Good to Great by Jim Collins, 2001


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Posted by Michael McKinney at 03:27 PM
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