Here are the suggestions people made for a business library:
 
-Paul Samuelson's popular economics text
-Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
-Managing for Excellence by David Bardford and Allan R. Cohen
-Wall Street Journal and weekly magazine like Business Week or Forbes
-Anything by Peter Drucker
-Check university bookstore for books required in MBA program
-Wharton School of Business reading list or bibliography
-In Search of Excellence
-Financial Management in Nonprofit Organizations by Richard F. Wacht
-Managing for Profit in the Nonprofit World by Paul B. Firstenberg
-Managing a Nonprofit Organization by Thomas Wolf
-Filthy Rich & Other Nonprofit Fantasies by Steckel, Simmons
 and Lengsfelder
-Off Your Duffs & Up the Assets by Becker & Glenn
-Upstart Press, mostly by David Bangs
-The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Science of the Learning
 Organization by Peter Senge's
-Inventing the Nonprofit Sector by Hall
-Anything from National Center for Nonprofit Boards, Washington DC,
 202 452-6262
 
and don't forget:
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen :-}
 
Robbin Murphy
NYU/Museum Studies
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