Montreal Business Book Review – Best Business Books Of 2006

We are getting close to that time of year when everybody pumps every possible media channel with their “best of…” Why should we be any different? So, here it is: The Montreal Business Book Review – Best Business Books of 2006.
It was not a formal process. I simply looked at my bookshelf and took ten titles that really struck me this year.
1. Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.
2. Zag: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands by Marty Neumeier.
3. S.C.O.R.E. for Life: The Secret Formula for Thinking Like a Champion by Jim Fannin.
4. The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class by Robin Sharma.
5. Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing by Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, and Lisa T. Davis.
6. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson.
7. Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin.
8. Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships by Jeffrey Gitomer.
9. The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life) by John Maeda.
10. The Laws of Lifetime Growth: Always Make Your Future Bigger Than Your Past by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura.
Hopefully, some of these titles will inspire you to pick them up and give them a good read.