Todd Sattersten at 800-CEO-READ has provided his list of leadership classics.
The list includes:
- Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter
- Execution by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck
- In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
This is a great list. I'd put The Effective Executive #1. It is still hard to imagine a list of classics without Covey's Seven Habits.