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Looking for your next book to read? Read to improve your business. Check out our collection of books especially helpful to small businesses.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to do about itBy Michael Gerber
Gerber walks you through the steps in the life of a business and shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business, whether or not it is a franchise. |
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal ChangeBy Stephen R. Covey
Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. |
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important GoalsBy Chris McChesney
A simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind. |
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership FableBy Patrick Lencioni
Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results). |
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your LifeBy Martin E.P. Seligman
Learned Optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. |
The Six SIGMA Handbook: A Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts and Managers at All LevelsBy Thomas Pyzdek
You'll get a complete overview of the management and organization of Six Sigma and the philosophy that underlies it. You'll see how best to prepare management for the idea of using proven scientific methods to run a business and how to build the groundwork for their roles. |
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and CourageBy Brene Brown
We associate vulnerability with emotions we want to avoid such as fear, shame, and uncertainty. Yet we too often lose sight of the fact that vulnerability is also the birthplace of joy, belonging, creativity, authenticity, and love. |
Situational LeadershipBy Kenneth H. Blanchard
Situational leadership refers to when the leader or manager of an organization must adjust his style to fit the development level of the followers he is trying to influence. |
The 4-Hour WorkweekBy Timothy Ferriss
Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. |
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to LeadBy Sheryl Sandberg
Sandberg digs deeper into these issues, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to cut through the layers of ambiguity and bias surrounding the lives and choices of working women. |
Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer GrowthBy Gabriel Weinberg
Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and how to pick the right ones for your business. |
The War for TalentBy Edward G. Michaels III
This book argues that winning the war for leadership talent is about much more than frenzied recruiting tactics. It's about the timeless principles of attracting, developing, and retaining highly talented managers - applied in bold new ways. |
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and others don’tBy James C. Collins
The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. |
The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes EverythingBy Stephen Covey
Covey shows how trust—and the speed at which it is established with clients, employees and constituents—is the essential ingredient for any high–performance, successful organization. |
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work and team with Positive EnergyBy Jon Gordon, Kenneth Blanchard
The book takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. |
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak PerformanceBy Timothy Gallwey
This book shares a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning. |
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changes, and ChallengersBy Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
A handbook striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. |
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your WorldBy Don Tapscott
This book reveals how the digital world created a generation that thought, played, and related to their world in a way radically different from that of their parents. |
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy and the WorldBy Jeremy Rifkin
Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful "Third Industrial Revolution." |
What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative ConsumptionBy Rachel Botsman & Roo Rogers
Collaborative Consumption is a timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. |
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceBy Malcolm Gladwell
Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas. |
The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That will Change the Way You Do BusinessBy Clayton Christensen
Focusing on "disruptive technology" of the Honda Supercub, Intel's 8088 processor, and the hydraulic excavator, Christensen shows why most companies miss "the next great wave." |
The Little Black Book of Innovation: How It works, How to Do ItScott D. Anthony
Anthony draws on stories from his research and field work with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. |
The Start-up Owner’s Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great CompanyBy Steve Blank
The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work. |
Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful BusinessesBy Eric Ries
Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, this book relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. |
The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your BusinessBy Rita Gunther McGrath
McGrath argues that it’s time to go beyond the very concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning. |
Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with PicturesBy Dan Roam
Drawing on twenty years of experience and the latest discoveries in vision science, Roam teaches readers how to clarify any problem or sell any idea using a simple set of tools. |
Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t WorkBy Dan Roam
Roam proves that Vivid Thinking is even more powerful. This technique combines our verbal and visual minds so that we can think and learn more quickly, teach and inspire our colleagues, and enjoy and share ideas in a whole new way. |
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and DeliveryGarr Reynolds
Reynolds shows readers there is a better way to reach the audience through simplicity and storytelling, and gave them the tools to confidently design and deliver successful presentations. |
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