John Daly’s Recommended Reading List for CFOs and Aspiring CFOs
John L. Daly is a Chelsea, Michigan based management consultant specializing in costing, pricing strategy and pricing model development. He has taught continuing professional education courses since 1995. Earlier in his career, John was Chief Financial Officer for a Tier 1 automotive parts supplier. He also has been CFO for a large restaurant chain and COO for a window treatments manufacturer and retailing chain. He is the owner of Executive Education, Inc., and author of Pricing for Profitability published by Wiley & Sons.
Activity-Based Costing: Making It Work for Small and Mid-Sized Companies by Douglas T. Hicks, Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, Harper Business Essentials, 1994
Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael Porter, Free Press, 1998
Crucial Accountability: Tools for Resolving Violated Expectations, Broken Commitments, and Bad Behavior, Second Edition ( Paperback) by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, McGraw-Hill, New York 2005
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss, Penguin, 2004
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t by Jim Collins, HarperCollins, 2001
Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen, HarperBusiness, 2011
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins, HarperCollins, 2009
How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated by James Womack and Daniel Jones, Free Press, 2003
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Little-Brown, 2008
Pricing for Profitability: Activity-Based Pricing for Competitive Advantage by John L. Daly, Wiley & Sons, 2001
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work by Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare, 2007
The Non-Designer’s Design Book (3rd Edition) by Robin Williams, Peachpit Press, 2004
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffery F. Liker, McGraw-Hill, 2004
The Big Book of Writing (Originally Published as The Writing Code): The Complete How-To Guide to Writing, With 100 Short Case Studies and Hints from Masters in All Genres by Charles Euchner, Kindle Books, 2010
Growing a Business by Paul Hawken, Simon & Schuster, 1987
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley, PhD, William D. Danko, PhD. Taylor Trade Publishing, 1986
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain, 2012
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg, Random House, 2013
The Little Book of Bulletproof Investing: Do’s and Don’ts to Protect Your Financial Life by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth, Wiley & Sons, 2010
