Best selling business books of the decade

Topsellers of Harvard Business Press
When the Harvard Business Review first published John Kotter's paper, Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail, in March-April 1995, it shot to the top of the reprints list. The book that followed (Leading Change) in 1996 was an immediate bestseller. Another classic here, Blue Ocean Strategy, has the most foreign language translations.

Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Kim and Mauborgne

Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter
P. Ghemawat

10 Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution
V. Govindarajan and Trimble

The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders At All Levels
Michael Watkins

The HR Value Proposition
D. Ulrich/ W. Brockbank

Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy Into Action
Kaplan and Norton

Private Label Strategy: How to Meet the Store Brand Challenge
Nirmalya Kumar

Leading Change
John P. Kotter

Future of Management
Gary Hamel

The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
D.Ulrich/ B.E. Becker/ M.A. Huselid

Bestsellers of Random House
Who Moved My Cheese is a charming parable about how to tackle change, not just in the workplace but also in life. Don't miss Good to Great (1996) by Jim Collins which overtook In Search of Excellence to become the best-selling management book of all time. Richard Branson's Screw It, Let's Do It is another classic, but which CEO can act by the title?

Who Moved My Cheese
Spencer Johnson

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins

How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
Jim Collins

Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't
Ram Charan

Execution: The Discipline Of Getting Things Done
Ram Charan

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World
Liaquat Ahamed

The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
P.M. Senge

Losing My Virginity
Richard Branson

Screw It, Let's Do It
Richard Branson

Bestsellers of Penguin
Gita Piramal's Business Maharajas profiles some of India's top business families. Rich in anecdotes, the book creates a lode of information about the notables. Subroto Bagchi has two bestsellers on this list, both rich in ethical advice. India Unbound, by a former multinational CEO, is a mix of “memoir, economic analysis, social investigation, political scrutiny and managerial outlook”.

India Unbound: A Personal Account Of A Social And Economic Revolution From Independence To The Global Information Age
Gurcharan Das

Business Maharajas
Gita Piramal

Go Kiss The World: Life Lessons For The Young Professional
Subroto Bagchi

Beyond The Last Blue Mountain A Life Of JRD Tata
R.M. Lala

We Are Like That Only
Rama Bijapurkar

The Case of The Bonsai Manager: Lessons from Nature in Growing
R. Gopalakrishnan

The Creation Of Wealth: The Tatas From The 19th To The 21st Century
R.M. Lala

The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles With Change
Gurcharan Das

The High-Performance Entrepreneur: Golden Rules for Success in Today's World
Subroto Bagchi

Dare To Dream: A Life of M.S. Oberoi
Bachi J. Karkaria

Bestsellers of McGraw-Hill
This list is a mixed bunch, ranging from one on Jack Welch's stint as CEO of GE, to the rise of our very own Dhirubhai Ambani. Management guru C.K. Prahalad figures with his The New Age of Innovation, which posits that old factors of competitive advantage are fading and corporates must sharpen business processes.

Envisioning An Empowered Nation: Technology For Societal Transformation
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, A. Sivathanu Pillai

The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-created Value Through Global Networks
C.K. Prahalad , M.S. Krishnan

A New Beginning: The Turnaround Story of Indian Bank
Ranjana Kumar

Leadership In The Era Of Economic Uncertainty: Managing In A Downturn
Ram Charan

The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Jeffrey K. Liker

How To Talk To Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Leil Lowndes

The Welch Way: 24 Lessons from the World's Greatest CEO
Jeffrey Krames

Dabbawalas
Shrinivas Pandit

Dhirubhai Ambani Against All Odds
A.G. Krishnamurthy

Finding Your Strength In Difficult Times: A Book Of Meditations
David Viscott

Bestsellers of Wiley
Not all best-sellers are about theory or advice: people also love stories about iconic CEOs as the one on Steve Jobs and his second stint at Apple, iCon Steve Jobs. Apple did not like the book's approach to Jobs' idiosyncracies. Then, there's also the one on Buffett's investment methods, The Warren Buffet Way.

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Jeffreys Young and William Simon

Leaders At All Levels: Deepening Your Talent Pool to Solve the Succession Crisis
Ram Charan

The Five Temptations of a CEO
Patrick Lencioni

The Warren Buffett Way, 2nd edition
Robert G. Hagstrom, Bill Miller and Ken Fisher

India's Global Wealth Club: The Stunning Rise of its Billionaires and their Secrets of Success
Geoff Hiscock

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns
Mohnish Pabrai

Get Your Frog Out of the Well
C. Boyer

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni

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