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Best Books To Make Best Workplaces

Last week, The Wall Street Journal announced their Top Small Workplaces 2007 winners.

The Journal asked the folks who run those places what books they would recommend to others trying to create first-class workplaces. Here the alphabetical list of their selections. Click through on the link above to read the winners' comments:

• "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu
• "The Best of Jack Falvey on Management" by Jack Falvey (out of print)
• "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael E. Gerber
• "Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done" by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck
• "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently" by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
• "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick Lencioni
• "Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise" by Peter Block
• "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't" by Jim Collins
• "Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great" by Jim Collins
• "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America" by David Whyte
• "The New Pay: Linking Employee and Organizational Performance" by Jay R. Schuster and Patricia K. Zingheim (out of print)
• "Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future" by Joel Arthur Barker
• "Strategic Planning: What Every Manager Must Know" by George A. Steiner (out of print)
• "Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life" by Spencer Johnson
• "A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age" by Daniel H. Pink