📚 Performance

Books with performance on their catalogue record, first published between 1844 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject performance in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 36,176 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Key performance indicators	David Parmenter	2007	14
	Performance management systems	Arup Varma	2008	13
	Effective phrases for performance appraisals	James E. Neal	1986	11
	Secrets of Closing the Sale	Zig Ziglar	1984	9
	Performance management	Michael Armstrong	1994	8
	Audition success	Don Greene	1998	8
	The Tyranny of Metrics	Jerry Z. Muller	2018	7
	How Buildings Learn	Stewart Brand	1994	6
	A Complaint Free World	Will Bowen	2007	6
	Winners	Alastair Campbell	2015	6
	Execution	Ram Charan	2002	5
	Analysis techniques for racecar data acquisition	Jorge Segers	2008	5
	Talent is Overrated	Geoff Colvin	1844	4
	Human competence	Thomas F. Gilbert	1978	4
	Anatomy of the orchestra	Norman Del Mar	1981	4
	Great at Work	Morten T. Hansen	2018	4
	Raise Your Game	Alan Stein Jr.	2019	4
	Human performance	Paul Morris Fitts	1967	3
	Mastering the art of performance	Gordon, Stewart	2005	3
	The musician's way	Gerald Klickstein	2009	3
	Peak	Anders Ericsson	2016	3
	Centrifugal compressor design and performance	David Japikse	1988	2
	Reaching the Top	Zig Ziglar	1997	2
	Theories of Performance	Elizabeth Bell	2008	2
	The leading brain	Friederike Fabritius	2017	2
	Estimating centrifugal compressor performance	Ronald P. Lapina	1982	1
	Elements of airplane performance	G.J.J Ruijgrok	1990	1
	How to build Honda horsepower	Richard Holdener	2002	1
	Forced induction performance tuning	A. Graham Bell	2002	1
	Making sense of squiggly lines	Christopher Brown	2011	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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