You Think You Read A Lot of Books?

Robert Morris is my hero. He's a management consultant from Texas and a Top 10 reviewer of biz books for Amazon. He estimates he's read over 1500 biz books. Amazon customers voted him one of the most helpful reviewers.

Harvard Business Review has a Q&A with him in the current October 2005 issue. He says he spends time with books based on research like Jim Collins' Good to Great and Jason Jennings' Think Big Act Small. Morris says all the books he reads helps him see a big picture on how business works. The piece ends with his recommendations:

Big Insight Books

• Knowing Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton (HBSP, 2000)
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown, 2005)
• Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen (Doubleday, 2002)

Business Classic Morris re-reads every year

• The Lever of Riches by Joel Mokyr (Oxford, 1992)
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn (University of Chicago, 1996)
• On the Profession of Management by Peter Drucker (HBSP, 2003)
• Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler (Random House, 1987)
• Holding On to Reality by Albert Borgmann (University of Chicago, 1999)

Excuse me, I've gotta go place a couple of orders on Amazon...