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Business Week's
Hardcover Best-Sellers
of 2000

BusinessWeek's list of the best-sellers of 2000 includes plenty of new titles--many echoing themes that also were popular in 1999. Narratives and how-to's dealing with the digital world claim several spots, and there are management and inspirational books galore. But above all, readers remain interested in money--both how to make it and how some have squandered it.

1. WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?
by Spencer Johnson, M.D. (Putnam $19.95) Learning to stop worrying and accept change.

2. THE MILLIONAIRE MIND by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD Andrews McMeel $26.95) The values of the wealthy revealed.

3. THE TIPPING POINT by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown $24.95) How new ideas and trends get spread like epidemics.

4. THE NEW NEW THING by Michael Lewis (Norton $25.95) Silicon Valley and its representative man, Jim Clark.

5. FIRST, BREAK ALL THE RULES by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (Simon & Schuster $26) A Gallup investigation into managerial success.

6. THE CLUETRAIN MANIFESTO by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger (Perseus $23) The Web is a conversation--one that's changing markets.

7. WHEN GENIUS FAILED by Roger Lowenstein (Random House $26.95) Inside hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.

8. GUNG HO by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles (Morrow $20) How Walton Works No. 2 fired up its employees.

9. THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM
by Suze Orman (Crown $23) Practical and ''spiritual'' steps for managing money.

10. FISH! by Stephen C. Lundin, PhD, Harry Paul, and John Christensen (Hyperion $19.95) Motivating employees the Pike Place Fish Market way.

11. HIGH TECH START UP by John L. Nesheim (Free Press $50) A handbook for startup success, by a Silicon Valley veteran.

12. SIX SIGMA by Mikel Harry, PhD, and Richard Schroeder (Currency/Doubleday $29.95) Improvements in quality can boost profits, say two Motorola veterans.

13. THE 21 IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP by John C. Maxwell (Thomas Nelson $17.99) A minister's down-to-earth rules.

14. RAVING FANS by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles (Morrow $20) Turning customers into your biggest boosters.

15. BLOWN TO BITS by Philip Evans and Thomas S. Wurster (Harvard Business School $27.50) How the Internet is reshaping business models.

BUSINESSWEEK'S Best-Seller List is based on a survey of chain and independent booksellers that carry a broad selection of books on economics, management, sales and marketing, small business, investing, personal finance, and careers. Well over 1,000 retail outlets nationwide are represented. Current rankings are based on a weighted analysis of unit sales, January through December, 2000.

Reprint courtesy of Business Week.

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