Apart from the first two (about which we are understandably biased) the following are books by others that we think stand out from the thick and ever-growing crowd of management and business books. Click on the cover of most and you will be taken to the relevant page at our publisher, Monterey Press, or at Amazon.com.

	Success with Simplicity: Take Management Back to Basics by David Brewster. My first book offers a fresh perspective on the challenge of management plus insight into how you can use simplicity to have balance and success. More...
	One Bite at a Time : How Every Manager can use Six Sigma to Make a Difference by David Brewster and Gary Calwell. This book, co-written with Gary Calwell, tells the story of Nathan, a manager under pressure. He's just been given an ultimatum by his boss to improve the quality and productivity of his team's work - or jobs will have to go. Our story follows Nathan's journey as he tries to escape this situation. It is part introduction to Six Sigma, part guide to getting things done. More...
	Simplicity by Edward de Bono. A little unusual in approach (the book contains an almost random series of anecdotes and examples of simplicity in action - and not), this book essentially tries to investigate what simplicity means. More...
	The Power Of Simplicity: A Management Guide to Cutting Through the Nonsense and Doing Things Right by Jack Trout. A very good read. Essentially a tongue-in-cheek examination of many of those things which tend to make business complicated, with summary take-home messages at the end of each chapter. More...
	Simplicity Wins: How Germany's Mid-Sized Industrial Companies Succeed by Gunter Rommel. I wonder if this book is the one that got away from McKinsey. The large consulting firm is not renowned for its simple approach. The book summarises a study by McKinsey consultants of a number of German companies and concludes that simplicity was fundamental to success. More...
	Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins. Arguably the best business book of the last twenty years. Certainly one of the most thought-provoking and influencial business books for some time. Jim Collins doesn't do things by halves. This book - written after 'Built to Last' but, as Jim points out, really a prelude to that book - isolates a number of contrarian characteristics of businesses which have turned themselves around and stayed on course for a long time. More...
	Reengineering the Corporation by Michael Hammer and James Champy. A classic look at where business processes go wrong and what can be done to make them more efficient. A bit weighed down in parts but the central idea is essential knowledge for anyone in business. More...
	Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy. The first half of this book uses examples from real situations to illustrate how actually getting things done (as opposed to just planning them) can be made to happen. The second half is made up of 'the answers' and doesn't succeed as well as the first. More...
	The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber. This is the book that every small business operator should read, if they read nothing else. The various new editions haven't added much meat to the original, but then the original really said all that needed to be said. More...
	Getting Things Done by David Allen. The clearest, most sensible, pragmatic and sustainable approach to personal productivity that I've come across. More...

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