I know I am a little late on getting the Strategy and Business list posted, but here is a summary of the list with the books and the links to the articles. The first book under each heading s+b’s top shelf pick for that subject:

• Strategy
• Confronting Reality by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
• The Future of Competition by C.K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy
• Strategy Maps by Robert S. Kaplan and David
• Management
• The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance L. Hays
• Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development by Henry Mintzberg
• A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time by Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal
• Army Leadership Field Manual: Battle-Tested Wisdom for Leaders in Any Organization by Department of the Army
• The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works by Ricardo Semler
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the Worlds Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffery Liker
• Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them by Max Bazerman and Michael Watkins
• IT & Innovation
• The Keystone Advantage: What the New Dynamics of Business Ecosystems Mean for Strategy, Innovation, and Sustainability by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
• The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times and Bad by Michael A. Cusumano
• Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage by Nicholas G. Carr
• Leadership
• Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George
• Ready to Lead? A Story for Leaders and Their Mentors by Alan Price
• Why CEOs Fail: The 11 Behaviors That Can Derail Your Climb to the Top and How to Manage Them by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo
• Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild by Christopher Byron
• The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul ONeill by Ron Suskind
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Governance
• Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World by Colin B. Carter and Jay W. Lorsch
• Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value by Bill George
• Corporate Governance and Chairmanship: A Personal View by Sir Adrian Cadbury
• The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance by Paul MacAvoy
The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business by Don Tapscott and David Ticoll
• Change Management
• Change Without Pain: How Managers Can Overcome Initiative Overload, Organizational Chaos, and Employee Burnout by Eric Abrahamson
• Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change by Robert E. Quinn
• Changing Minds: The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People’s Minds by Howard Gardner
• The Bubble
• Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think by Michael J. Mandel
• Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing by Roger Lowenstein
• Behavioral Economics
• The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright
• The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society by Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
• The New Consumer
• The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel
• Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by Paco Underhill
• On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense by David Brooks

Here is a link to our entry on Strategy + Business’ Best of 2003