In his own words, Redstone gives us a behind the scenes look at his life and his biggest deals. After hugely successful stints at Harvard, the U.S. Army and an impressive career as a lawyer, we learn how a small-time operator of movie theatres, primarily unfashionable drive-in theatres, built a media conglomerate piece by piece.

In 1983, when it looked like SRC's parent company, International Harvester, might shut down its southwestern Missouri "remanufacturing" plant, Stack and 12 other employees bought the place and fashioned a system of employee ownership that turned SRC into a corporation of 22 companies with more than $100 million in sales.

Using the experiences of SRC as well as other companies with "ownership cultures" as examples, Jack Stack shares his ides on how to keep employees energized, creative and acting like true owners of their company (beyond offering stock options).

In 1957, Fortune magazine published a list of the wealthiest people in the United States of America, and J. Paul Getty headed that list. From that point on, he would come to be known as the multi-billionaire who was the world's richest man.

In this autobiography, Getty speaks candidly about how he built his staggering wealth, including detailed accounts of his business dealings. He also talks about his love of art, the challenges faced by people with his level of wealth, and he even delves into his inability to nurture a successful marriage: he was married five times.

This huge bestseller gives powerful insights into the often-neglected power of our intuition. Malcolm Gladwell seeks to understand and help us understand what happens inside a person's head when they take part in rapid cognition or the act of intuition. 

There are situations in which intuition or snap judgments are correct and applicable and those in which they are not - what makes the difference? This is the question which Gladwell helps us uncover the answer to.

Every entrepreneur, every aspiring entrepreneur, must read this book.

The Bloomberg terminal is ubiquitous on Wall Street. The man whose name is on each terminal, and who is today the multi-billionaire Mayor of New York City, tells the story about how he's built his business and his life.

The best book ever written on the investing legend!

Tons of books have been written about Warren Buffett. Some educational institutions have even created courses based on his business philosophies. But this book, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein, is widely agreed to be the best one ever written.

When you finish reading it, you will agree too.

A six-year research project is discussed at length in Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. The research project expressed in the book was designed in order to help the researchers and subsequently the world at large learn what it was that makes successful, long-term companies in the business world.

This book really needs no introduction to most successful executives. It can be found in their libraries. It simply is a classic.

Anita Roddick is one of the world's most outspoken, controversial and successful businesswomen. Business As Unusual charts the story of Roddick and her company, The Body Shop, through the lows and highs of the last decade.

Along the way she turns the tables on the way society looks at business and shows how it is possible for an international company to act in an ethically responsible and accountable way, without sacrificing good business sense or profit margin.