Gruntled Employees

Bob Pritchett: Fire Someone Today: And Other Surprising Tactics for Making Your Business a Success

Bryan A. Garner: Garner's Modern American Usage

Ronald J. Baker: Professional's Guide to Value Pricing
The soup-to-nuts guide to getting free of the billable hour.

Ken Blanchard: Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
Best book on customer service. Takes about 45 minutes to read.

Tom Peters: Re-imagine!
A new classic. The world's foremost business guru reimagines the workplace.

James C. Freund: Smart Negotiating: How to Make Good Deals in the Real World
Forget Getting to Yes. This is the best, most practical book on negotiating.

The Chicago Manual of Style
The classic style guide; completely comprehensive; newly revised with more on usage and grammar.

Michael E. Gerber: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
How to run a business without it running you. I've given this out to many people.

William Strunk Jr.: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Indispensable. Anyone who writes anything must have this classic.

Paul Dunn: The Firm of the Future: A Guide for Accountants, Lawyers, and Other Professional Services

Brian E. Becker: The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance
How to quantify HR.

Jac Fitz-Enz: The ROI of Human Capital: Measuring the Economic Value of Employee Performance
A new way of looking at HR.

Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Look at the world in a new way. It's not really a business book, and yet it is.

Brian Fugere: Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide
The title says it all.