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From shipping to management methods, there's a book on almost everything related to business out there. You've got a business to run, so instead of sorting through the bad to find the good, here's a list of thirty of the best business management books out there that every entrepreneur should read and put to good use.

1) Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, by Peter Bernstein

2) The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, by Guy Kawasaki

3) The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.

4) Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell, by Nancy F. Koehn

5) The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and other Workplace Afflictions, by Scott Adams

6) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber

7) The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, by Peter Drucker

8) The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter Senge

9) First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

10) Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the LeapAnd Others Don't, by Jim Collins

11) The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company, by Jack Stack

12) Growing a Business, by Paul Hawken

13) green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, by Daniel Esty and Andrew Winston

14) How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie

15) The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firsms to Fail, by Clayton Christensen

16) Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, by Thomas A. Stewart

17) The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham

18) Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, by Yvon Chouinard

19) Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Don't, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

20) The New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, by Michael Lewis

21) Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, by Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg

22) Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Obilvy

23) On Competition, by Michael Porter

24) Personal History, by Katharine Graham

25) Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang

26) Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham

27) Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder

28) The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

29) What Management Is: How It Works and Why It's Everyone's Business, by Joan Magretta and Nan Stone

30) The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, by James Surowiecki

SOURCE: F@st Company magazine, April 2009

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