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30.8.06

What is the best business management book?

Some people say....

Microsoft Small Business Kit
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/7123.asp

According to Amazon the best book on business management is "The Ultimate Competitive Advantage" by by Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, B. Thomas Golisano

t depends, of course, on what you want to learn from the book.

For example, Peter Drucker is considered the father of modern management theory. He is easy to read and has lots of great insight. Here is a terrific starting place:
http://www.buch-info.net/ISBN/006093574X

You might want something that is a bit more "personal" and I really like the book by Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, called "Pour Your Heart into It".
http://www.buch-info.net/ISBN/0786883561

If you are interested in something like influencing others, as one of the other answers suggests, then the most important book on the topic is by Robert Cialdini, a respected researcher and the world's leading expert on influence and persuasion (it is a great book):
http://www.buch-info.net/ISBN/0688128165
There are lots of others out there. Ask great managers you know to make a recommendation.

What is a "Googly"?

A Cricket Term:

From wikipedia:

In cricket, a googly is a type of delivery bowled by a right-arm leg spin bowler. It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie (or Bosey) after its supposed inventor Bernard Bosanquet; in Australia it is commonly referred to as a wrong'un.

While a normal leg break spins from the leg to the off side, away from a right-handed batsman, a googly spins the other way, from off to leg, into a right-handed batsman. The bowler achieves this change of spin by rotating his wrist from the normal leg break delivery so that the ball rolls out the back of his hand with clockwise spin (from the bowler's point of view). A googly may also be achieved by bowling the ball as a conventional leg break, but spinning the ball further with the fingers just before it is released.

This change of wrist action can be seen by a skilled batsman and the change of spin allowed for when playing a shot at the ball. Less skilled batsmen, or ones who have lost their concentration, can be deceived completely, expecting the ball to move one direction off the pitch, only for it to move the other direction. If the batsman is expecting a leg break, he will play outside the line of the ball after it spins. This means the ball can either strike the pads for a potential lbw appeal, or may fly between the bat and the pads and hit the wicket.

The googly is a major weapon in the arsenal of a leg spin bowler, and can be one of the bowler's most effective wicket-taking balls. It is used infrequently, because its effectiveness comes mostly from its surprise value.

Left-arm unorthodox spinners, commonly known as "chinaman" bowlers, can bowl with the googly action using the left arm. This delivery is usually known as a chinaman googly and turns away from a right-handed batsman, like a leg break or left-arm orthodox spinner. The googly is similar in principle to the doosra, the ball from an off-spinner which turns the opposite way from his stock ball.