The Two Business Books You Must Read

If I had to tell you which two business books to read it would be these two:

Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy will teach you everything you need to know about analyzing your business, coming up with opportunities and making a viable business model

And Chester Karass's book on negotiation - Give and Take - will cover the day today of making business deals.

And that's as quick and dirty as I can make it.

Getting Book Reviews

Don't forget book reviews! Most databases will allow you to select book reviews as a source type. Reason: find out a book's reputation, any hidden context, its significance among experts, and any problems with the book. Most authors are pretty persuasive and you need a second opinion.

Be sure to limit by document type check box

New York Times archives is a good option for nonacademic books published before 2006.

Your best bets for economics are:

Econlit, Business Source and JSTOR.

Be sure to limit results to "review" or "book review," depending on the interface. In Business Source Complete, you gotta click Show More types, and then choose doc types.





You can also use these databases:

InfoTrac Small Business Collection - focuses on less scholarly and practical titles - current management techniques and real world advice about business topics. You can search by book title or type your subject and then "book review."

Wilson OmniFile FullText. A good grabbag. You can limit it to search "book reviews" by a particular. discipline

These are not your only options but are some of the best. You can always check your favorite database to see if it has book reviews.