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How to Become a Great Boss: The Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees by Jeffrey J. Fox. Employment is a contract with obligations on both sides. Hiring people, managing them, and firing them when they need to go are core executive functions that often are ignored in today's information-obsessed corporations. Fox's insights are grounded in age-old conflicts between ego and results, partnership and competition, self and organization. His primer on evaluating an employee's performance, attitude, and priorities is a common sense guide to communicating and socializing when you're the boss.

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael E Gerber This book should be required listening for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organized and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business.