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January

• "The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell" reviewed by Roger Lirely
• "The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life" reviewed by James H. Murphy
• "Globalization and its Discontents" reviewed by Austin Spencer
• "Confessions of A Street Addict" reviewed by Josh Scales

February

• "Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management" reviewed by David Coffee
• "It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy" reviewed by Terry Kinnear
• "Pro-Sumer Power" reviewed by Julie Johnson

March

• "Managing Workplace Negativity" reviewed by John Beegle
• "The Haves and the Have Nots: The Abuse of Power and Privilege in the Workplace…And How to Control It" reviewed by Hollye Moss
• "The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership" reviewed by Gary Jones

April

• "What Management Is" reviewed by Max Schreiber
• "Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law" reviewed by E. Malcom Abel
• "Cracking Your Retirement Nest Egg Without Scrambling Your Finances" reviewed by Austin Spencer
• "The Dynamics of Firm and Industry Growth: the Swedish Computing and Communications Industry" reviewed by Robert Mulligan

May

• "Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower and the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused" reviewed by Steve Jarrell
• "Producing, Financing, and Distributing Film" reviewed by Philip Little

June

• "John Maynard Keynes, Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946" reviewed by James Ullmer

July

• "The Future of the American Labor Movement" reviewed by Steve Owens

September

• "Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard" reviewed by Michael Smith
• "Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO" reviewed by Michael Thomas
• "What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett" reviewed by Debra Burke

October

• "Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters" reviewed by Beth Jones

November

• "Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age" reviewed by Jeanne Dorle
• "Adventures in Misplaced Marketing" reviewed by Myron Leonard

December

• "Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" reviewed by Dan Clapper
• "The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth" reviewed by Frank Lockwood