Het Amerikaansed tijdschrijft TIME publiceerde afgelopen zomer een lijst met de 25 meest invloedrijke management-boeken aller tijden. Het is volgens TIME een indrukwekkende lijst vol boeken die onze manier van denken over management soms ingrijpend evanderd hebben.
- The Age of Unreason (1989), Charles Handy
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
- Competing for the Future (1996), Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), Michael E. Porter
- Emotional Intelligence (1995), Daniel Goleman
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), Michael E. Gerber
- The Essential Drucker (2001), Peter Drucker
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), Peter Senge
- First, Break All the Rules (1999), Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
- The Goal (1984), Eliyahu Goldratt
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don't (2001), Jim Collins
- Guerilla Marketing (1984), Jay Conrad Levinson
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Dale Carnegie
- The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), Douglas McGregor
- The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), Clayton Christensen
- Leading Change (1996), John P. Kotter
- On Becoming a Leader (1989), Warren Bennis
- Out of the Crisis (1982), W. Edwards Deming
- My Years with General Motors (1964), Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
- The One Minute Manager (1982), Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), James Champy and Michael Hammer
- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), Stephen R. Covey
- The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh
- Toyota Production System (1988), Taiichi Ohno
- Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), Spencer Johnson