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800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources, compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide.

Here are the Top 25 from February’s list, plus descriptions of the Top 10.

Here’s what the top 10 are about:

1. “Good to Great”: How good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies, achieve enduring greatness.

2. “Animals Inc.”: The Gallup Organization’s classic parable, featuring a group of unforgettable barnyard animals trying to run a successful business.

3. “The Attitude of Leadership”: Identifies 21 strategies that influence both leaders and their employees to aspire to excellence on and off the job.

4. “Leadership From the Inside Out”: Redefining leadership by focusing on the seven pathways to grow as a person in order to grow as a leader.

5. “Stretch!: How Great Companies Grow in Good Times and Bad”: Presents a step-by-step plan for companies to maintain positive organic growth even in the toughest of economic times.

6. “Purple Cow”: A manifesto for marketers who want to help create products that are worth marketing in the first place.

7. “Authentic Leadership”: Former Medtronic chairman and CEO Bill George shows how to get the job done right – with pride, ethics and integrity.

8. “The Informed Investor”: Exchanging irrational investor behavior for an educated strategy that yields the highest return with the lowest risk.

9. “Fortune Favors the Bold”: Analysis of the new global economy linking the fortunes of every nation, the ills of that globalization and the solutions.

10. “Execution”: How to close the gap between results promised and results delivered, whether running an entire company or in your first management job.

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