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AUGUST 7, 2006
The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List 1. THE WORLD IS FLAT By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- $30) Globalization is great -- sort of, says a columnist for The New York Times. Last Month: 1, Months on List: 14 2. FREAKONOMICS By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (Morrow -- $25.95) Crack gangs, the Ku Klux Klan, and more, examined by a University of Chicago economist. Last Month: 2, Months on List: 15 3. BLINK By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown -- $25.95) Snap judgments deserve careful consideration, says a writer for The New Yorker. Last Month: 3, Months on List: 18 4. JIM CRAMER'S REAL MONEY By James J. Cramer (Simon & Schuster -- $26) Trading tips from CNBC's wild man. Last Month: 6, Months on List: 15 5. THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SELLING By Jeffrey Gitomer (Bard Press -- $19.95) Why people buy. Last Month: 4, Months on List: 22 6. SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND By T. Harv Eker (HarperBusiness -- $19.95) Shape your financial destiny. Last Month: 7, Months on List: 15 7. WAITING FOR YOUR CAT TO BARK? By Brian Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg (Nelson Business -- $19.99) Marketing to independent-minded customers. Last Month: --, Months on List: 1 8. THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF SALES ANSWERS By Jeffrey Gitomer (Prentice Hall-- $19.99) ``Fatal flaws'' of selling and more. Last Month: 5, Months on List: 4 9. THE CULTURE CODE By Clotaire Rapaille (Broadway -- $24.95) How national cultures shape buying habits and behavior in general. Last Month: --, Months on List: 1 10. THE MONEY BOOK FOR THE YOUNG, FABULOUS & BROKE By Suze Orman (Riverhead -- $24.95) Career plans, credit, etc. Last Month: --, Months on List: 11 11. THE FRED FACTOR By Mark Sanborn (Currency/Doubleday -- $14.95) Bringing creativity to your work and life, just like this mailman does. Last Month: 9, Months on List: 17 12. THE TOTAL MONEY MAKEOVER By Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson-- $24.99) Getting rid of debt and building up your reserves. Last Month: 13, Months on List: 18 13. RULE # 1 By Phil Town (Crown -- $25) Think like a business owner and target your investments accordingly, says this former river-rafting guide. Last Month: 12, Months on List: 4 14. SUCCEED ON YOUR OWN TERMS By Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney (McGraw-Hill -- $21.95) Profiles of successful folks -- and a personality test for yourself. Last Month: --, Months on List: 1 15. THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER By Kenneth Blanchard, PhD, Spencer Johnson, M.D. (Morrow -- $19.95) Three management techniques conveyed in brief story form. Last Month: 14, Months on List: 14 1. GOOD TO GREAT AND THE SOCIAL SECTORS By Jim Collins (Collins -- $11.95) How noncorporate organizations can excel. Last Month: 1, Months on List: 7 2. COLLAPSE By Jared Diamond (Penguin -- $17) From Easter Island to Mayan Central America, why civilizations fall apart. Last Month: 4, Months on List: 5 3. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? By Richard Nelson Bolles (Ten Speed Press -- $17.95) The 2006 edition of the enduring job-search bible. Last Month: 3, Months on List: 7 4. RICH WOMAN By Kim Kiyosaki (Rich Press -- $18.95) How women can take control of their finances. Last Month: 9, Months on List: 2 5. THE AUTOMATIC MILLIONAIRE By David Bach (Broadway -- $12.95) Put your investment program on autopilot. Last Month: 2, Months on List: 6 6. THE 8TH HABIT By Stephen R. Covey (Free Press-- $15) Leadership in the new workplace. Last Month: --, Months on List: 4 7. THINK AND GROW RICH By Napoleon Hill (Ballantine -- $7.99) Willpower and a positive attitude are the keys to achieving wealth. Last Month: 10, Months on List: 14 8. FIND IT, FIX IT, FLIP IT! By Michael Corbett (Penguin -- $15) Profiting from real estate, by a television-show host. Last Month: 5, Months on List: 5 9. A GUIDE TO THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE By Project Management Institute (PMI Publications -- $49.95) Delivering results. Last Month: 6, Months on List: 7 10. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House -- $14.95) Luck, risk, and probability in the markets. Last Month: --, Months on List: 2 11. THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, REVISED EDITION By Benjamin Graham, with Jason Zweig (HarperBusiness -- $19.95) The classic treatise on ``value investing.'' Last Month: 12, Months on List: 14 12. THE MILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE AGENT By Gary Keller, Dave Jenks, Jay Papasan (McGraw-Hill -- $21.95) Real estate careers. Last Month: --, Months on List: 20 13. THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM By Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind (Portfolio -- $16) An adept account of Enron's implosion by two writers from Fortune. Last Month: --, Months on List: 9 14. THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE By James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (Jossey-Bass-- $22.95) The core concepts of leadership, with case studies and plans for action. Last Month: --, Months on List: 3 15. OVERCOMING THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM By Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass -- $24.95) A fable about fixing crippling teamwork problems. Last Month: --, Months on List: 1 GOOD TO GREAT By Jim Collins (HarperBusiness -- $27.50) NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS By Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (Free Press -- $30) THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM By Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass -- $22.95) WHO MOVED MY CHEESE? By Spencer Johnson (Putnam -- $19.95) FISH! By Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, John Christensen (Hyperion -- $19.95) EXECUTION By Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan (Crown -- $27.50) RICH DAD, POOR DAD By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Warner -- $16.95) THE TIPPING POINT By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay -- $14.95) THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE By Stephen R. Covey (Free Press -- $15) GETTING THINGS DONE By David Allen (Penguin -- $15) THE E-MYTH REVISITED By Michael E. Gerber (HarperBusiness -- $16) GETTING TO YES By Roger Fisher, William Ury, Bruce Patton (Penguin -- $15) THE RICHEST MAN IN BABYLON By George S. Clason (Signet -- $6.99) RICH DAD'S CASHFLOW QUADRANT By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter (Warner -- $17.95) RICH DAD'S GUIDE TO INVESTING By Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, C.P.A. (Warner -- $19.95) THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR By Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (Pocket Books -- $15) THE 48 LAWS OF POWER By Robert Greene (Penguin -- $18) SMART WOMEN FINISH RICH By David Bach (Broadway -- $14.95) BusinessWeek's Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers. Well over 1,000 retail outlets nationwide are represented. Current rankings are based on a weighted analysis of unit sales in June.  Get BusinessWeek directly on your desktop with our RSS feeds.  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