Le TIME Magazine propose la liste des 25 livres de business qui ont eu le plus d'influence, on retrouve de nombreux livres du Personal MBA :
- The Age of Unreason (1989), de Charles Handy
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), de Jim Collins et Jerry Porras
- Competing for the Future (1996), de Gary Hamel et C.K. Prahalad
- Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries et Competitors (1980), de Michael E. Porter
- Emotional Intelligence (1995), de Daniel Goleman
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), de Michael E. Gerber
- The Essential Drucker (2001), de Peter Drucker
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art et Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), de Peter Senge
- First, Break All the Rules (1999), de Marcus Buckingham et Curt Coffman
- The Goal (1984), de Eliyahu Goldratt
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), de Jim Collins
- Guerilla Marketing (1984), de Jay Conrad Levinson
- How to Win Friends et Influence People (1936), de Dale Carnegie
- The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), de Douglas McGregor
- The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), de Clayton Christensen
- Leading Change (1996), de John P. Kotter
- On Becoming a Leader (1989), de Warren Bennis
- Out of the Crisis (1982), de W. Edwards Deming
- My Years with General Motors (1964), de Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
- The One Minute Manager (1982), de Kenneth Blanchard et Spencer Johnson
- Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), de James Champy et Michael Hammer
- The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), de Stephen R. Covey
- The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola et other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), de Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman et Roland R. Cavanagh
- Toyota Production System (1988), de Taiichi Ohno
- Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), de Spencer Johnson
Et vous, quels seraient le ou les livres que vous recommenderiez ?
