Books Management
75 Books that Made Management
Managerial Pre-History
The Art of War (500 BC) Sun Tzu The Prince (1500) Nicolo Machiavelli The Wealth of Nations (1776) Adam Smith On War (1831) Karl von Clausewitz On Machinery & Manufactures (1832) Charles Babbage
1900 - 1929
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) Frederick W. Taylor Motion Study (1911) Frank Gilbreth General and Industrial Management (1916) Henri Fayol My Life and Work (1923) Henry Ford
The Thirties
Onward Industry (1931) James Mooney & Alan Reiley
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization (1933) Elton Mayo How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) Dale Carnegie The Functions of the Executive (1938) Chester Barnard
The Forties
Dynamic Administration (1941) Mary Parker Follett Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1947) Max Weber Administrative Behavior (1947) Herbert Simon
The Fifties
The Changing Culture of a Factory (1951) Elliot Jacques Motivation and Personality (1954) Abraham Maslow The Practice of Management (1954) Peter F. Drucker The Organization Man (1956) William Whyte Parkinson's Law (1958) C.N. Parkinson The Motivation to Work (1959) Frederick Herzberg
The Sixties
The Human Side of Enterprise (1960) Douglas McGregor New Patterns of Management (1961) Rensis Likert Innovation in Marketing (1962) Ted Levitt Strategy and Structure (1962) Alfred Chandler A Company and its Beliefs (1963) Thomas Watson Jr. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (1963) Richard Cyert & James March My Years with General Motors (1963) Alfred P. Sloan The Managerial Grid (1964) Robert Blake & Jane Mouton Corporate Strategy (1965) Igor Ansoff The Will to Manage (1966) Marvin Bower Marketing Management (1967) Philip Kotler The Age of Discontinuity (1969) Peter F. Drucker The Peter Principle (1969) Laurence Peter
The Seventies
Up the Organization (1970) Robert Townsend The Nature of Managerial Work (1973) Henry Mintzberg Organizational Learning (1978) Chris Argyris & Donald Schön
Managerial Pre-History
The Art of War (500 BC) Sun Tzu The Prince (1500) Nicolo Machiavelli The Wealth of Nations (1776) Adam Smith On War (1831) Karl von Clausewitz On Machinery & Manufactures (1832) Charles Babbage
1900 - 1929
The Principles of Scientific Management (1911) Frederick W. Taylor Motion Study (1911) Frank Gilbreth General and Industrial Management (1916) Henri Fayol My Life and Work (1923) Henry Ford
The Thirties
Onward Industry (1931) James Mooney & Alan Reiley
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization (1933) Elton Mayo How to Win Friends and Influence People (1937) Dale Carnegie The Functions of the Executive (1938) Chester Barnard
The Forties
Dynamic Administration (1941) Mary Parker Follett Theory of Social and Economic Organization (1947) Max Weber Administrative Behavior (1947) Herbert Simon
The Fifties
The Changing Culture of a Factory (1951) Elliot Jacques Motivation and Personality (1954) Abraham Maslow The Practice of Management (1954) Peter F. Drucker The Organization Man (1956) William Whyte Parkinson's Law (1958) C.N. Parkinson The Motivation to Work (1959) Frederick Herzberg
The Sixties
The Human Side of Enterprise (1960) Douglas McGregor New Patterns of Management (1961) Rensis Likert Innovation in Marketing (1962) Ted Levitt Strategy and Structure (1962) Alfred Chandler A Company and its Beliefs (1963) Thomas Watson Jr. A Behavioral Theory of the Firm (1963) Richard Cyert & James March My Years with General Motors (1963) Alfred P. Sloan The Managerial Grid (1964) Robert Blake & Jane Mouton Corporate Strategy (1965) Igor Ansoff The Will to Manage (1966) Marvin Bower Marketing Management (1967) Philip Kotler The Age of Discontinuity (1969) Peter F. Drucker The Peter Principle (1969) Laurence Peter
The Seventies
Up the Organization (1970) Robert Townsend The Nature of Managerial Work (1973) Henry Mintzberg Organizational Learning (1978) Chris Argyris & Donald Schön