Management

Competitive Strategy 《竞争战略》 Michael Porter Porter builds a systematic framework for analyzing industry structure and competitive position, centered on the five forces that determine… Business Classic Index 95

The Innovator's Dilemma 《创新者的窘境》 Clayton Christensen Christensen explains why well-managed, customer-responsive companies routinely lose to disruptive technologies: the very practices that make them… Business Classic Index 94

The Effective Executive 《卓有成效的管理者》 Peter Drucker Drucker argues that effectiveness is a discipline that can be learned, and lays out practices: managing time, focusing on contribution, building on… Business Classic Index 92

Crossing the Chasm 《跨越鸿沟》 Geoffrey Moore Moore argues that there is a dangerous gap between early adopters and the mainstream market for high-tech products, and that crossing it requires… Business Classic Index 90

Thinking in Systems 《系统之美》 Donella Meadows Meadows introduces the basic vocabulary of systems thinking in plain language: stocks and flows, feedback loops, delays, leverage points. Her… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 89

The Outsiders 《商界局外人》 William Thorndike Thorndike compares eight CEOs with outstanding long-run records and finds that what they share is not operational brilliance or charisma but… US Stock Investment Classic Index 87

Good to Great 《从优秀到卓越》 Jim Collins Collins and his research team compare companies that made a sustained leap in performance with similar companies that did not, and identify patterns… Business Classic Index 87

The Hard Thing About Hard Things 《创业维艰》 Ben Horowitz Horowitz writes about the problems management literature usually omits — layoffs, near-bankruptcy, demoting friends, hiring executives into chaos —… Business Classic Index 84

Mindset 《终身成长》 Carol Dweck Dweck distinguishes a fixed mindset, which treats ability as a given trait, from a growth mindset, which treats ability as developable through… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 83

How Groups Encourage Misbehavior 《害马之群》 Kevin R. Murphy How groups lose control and push their members toward wrongdoing. Society & Civilization AZM's list