My list of desert island books

Recently a friend asked me to list a set of management books I would want to read again and again. It is probably the influence of these books that it did not take me much time to make up this list. Here is a list of  must read and reread' books..in no particular order. Do note that my work as a consultant and business leader probably influenced these choices a lot

Name of Book	Author	Publisher	Year
THE PROFIT ZONE	Adrian J. Slywotzky & David J. Morrison	Crown Business	1997
MANAGING THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE FIRM	David H. Maister	Free Press	1997
MICROSOFT SECRETS	Michael A. Cusumano & Richard W. Selby	HarperColins	1998
HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY	Rick Page	McGraw-Hill Companies	2003
LEAN THINKING	James P. Womack & Daniel T. Jones	Free Press	2003
POWERFUL PROPOSALS	David G. Pugh & Terry R. Bacon	AMACOM Books	2005
THINKING FOR A LIVING	Thomas H. Davenport	Harvard Business Review Press	2005
STRATEGY SAFARI	Henry Mintzberg, Bruce Ahlstrand & Joseph Lampel	Free Press	2005
INFLUENCE WITHOUT AUTHORITY	Allan R. Cohen & David L. Bradford	John Wiley & Sons	2005
ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE AS STRATEGY	Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill & David C. Robertson	Harvard Business Review Press	2006
BUILDING AGREEMENT	Roger Fisher & Daniel Shapiro	Random House Business	2007
THE OPPOSABLE MIND	Roger Martin	Harvard Business Review Press	2007
THE LORDS OF STRATEGY	Walter Kiechel	Harvard Business Press	2010
BUY*IN	John P. Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead	Harvard Business Review Press	2010
BE EXCELLENT AT ANYTHING	Tony Schwartz	Simon & Schuster UK	2010
ESCAPE VELOCITY	Geoffrey A. Moore	Harper Business	2011
SLIDE:OLOGY	Nancy Duarte	O'Reilly Media	2011
PLAYING TO WIN	A.G. Lafley & Roger L. Martin	Harvard Business Review Press	2013
SIDETRACKED	Francesca Gino	Harvard Business Review Press	2013
THE HARD THING ABOUT HARD THINGS	Ben Horowitz	Harper Business	2014
THE INNOVATORS	Walter Isaacson	Simon and Schuster	2014