Resources

  • Lean Start Up (Eric Ries, Crown Business, 2011)*
  • Business Models for Entrepreneurial Ventures: Developing Sound Metrics for Long-Term Success. (David Newton, Free Market Press, 2011)*
  • The Start-Up of You (Reid Hoffman, cofounder and chair of Linked-In, 2012)*
  • Navigating Your Way to Business Success: An Entrepreneur’s Journey (Kathryn B. Freeland, Freebridge Publishing, 2010) Business Model Generation (Osterwalder, Pigneur, and Smith, Wiley, 2010)*
  • Business Models for Entrepreneurial Ventures (David Newton, Free Market, 2011)*
  • Entrepreneurial Small Business (Katz and Green, McGraw Hill, 2010)*
  • American Cool (published by Smithsonian Institute)*
  • In the Owner’s Chair (Torrence, 1992)*
  • Business at the Speed of Thought (Gates, 1999)*
  • Radicals and Visionaries (Wawro, 2000)*
  • Leadership is an Art (Max DePree, Dell, 1989)*
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Stephen R. Covey, Simon and Schuster, 2013)*
  • Paths to Succeed: Developing Your Entrepreneurial Thinking (Colin Turner, Texere, 2002)*
  • Crocodile Charlie & The Holy Grail: How to find your own answers at work & in life (John Kolm and Peter Ring, Penguin Global, 2004)*
  • Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (Seth Godin, Portfolio Hardcover, 2009)*
  • Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success (Masaaki Imai, McGraw Hill, 1986)*
  • The Leader’s Edge: Mastering the 5 Skills of Breakthrough Thinking (Guy Hall, Irwin Publishing, 1996)*
  • The Talent Management Handbook: Creating Organizational Excellence by Identifying,Developing, and Promoting Your Best People (Ed. By Berger and Berger, McGraw-Hill, 2004)*
  • Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook (Megginson, Bird, and Megginson, McGraw-Hill, 2003)*
  • Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing (Harry Beckwith, Business Plus, 2012) Sales Dogs(Blair Singer, Warner Business Books, 2001)*
  • The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change (Jennifer Aiker & Andy Smith, Jossey-Bass, 2010)*
  • Guide to Investing: The individual investor’s complete source book on the basics of investing (New York Institute of Finance, 1992)*
  • Venture Capital Investing: The Complete Handbook for Investing in Small Private Businesses for Outstanding Profits (David Gladstone, Prentice Hall, 1988)*
  • Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovation (MH Morris, DF Kuratko, and JG Covin, Southwestern-Cengage, 2011)*
  • The Monster Under the Bed: How Business Is Mastering the Opportunity of Knowledge for Profit (Stan Davis and Jim Botkin, Simon and Shuster, 1994)*
  • Finding Fertile Ground: Identifying Extraordinary Opportunities for New Ventures (Scott A. Shane, Pearson, 2005) –for technology ventures*

front of the University Book Center

stack of eight books




2020 cohort of SMLP student at front of auditorium

Cohorts

Meet our current and past Southern Management Leadership Program students.