During my reverse advent throughout December, I will be giving away a business book to someone.
If you had to choose any business book to give to a friend or colleague what would it be?
I have asked my network for some of their top reads and here are 50 titles that have been mentioned, some numerous times (in no particular order):
- The Second Bounce Of The Ball: Turning Risk Into Opportunity Paperback — Sir Ronald Cohen
- Eat that Frog — Brian Tracy
- The Success Principles — Jack Canfield
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not -Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The E-myth — Michael Gerber
- The Chimp Paradox — Steve Peters
- How the Mighty Fall — Why Some Companies Fail — Jim Collins.
- Good to Great — Jim Collins
- Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
- Emergence — Derek Rydall
- This is Marketing — Seth Godin
- Start with Why — Simon Sinek
- Be More Pirate — Sam Connie
- Make Your Bed Admiral William H McRaven
- Better Than Before — Gretchen Rubin
- The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
- Linchpin — Seth Godin
- Jolt: Shake Up Your Thinking — Richard Tyler
- Dare To Lead — Brene Brown
- The Power of Habit — Charles Duhigg
- The Icarus Deception – Seth Godin
- Feel the fear & do it anyway – Susan Jeffers
- Thinking fast & slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance — Angela Duckworth
- Tools of Titans — Tim Ferris
- Work Like A Woman – Mary Portas
- Founders Dilemma — Noam Wasserman
- The ONE Thing – Jay Papasan & Gary Keller
- Business Model Generation – Alexander Osterwalder.
- Go for No – Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz.
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship — Peter Drucker
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers — Ben Horowitz
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language — Steven Pinker
- How to Be A Productivity Ninja – Graham Allcott
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R Covey
- What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School – Mark McCormack
- The Magicians Way – William Whitecloud
- The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zander.
- Words that Change Minds – Shelle-Rose Charvet
- Work Smarter: Live Better – Cyril Peupion
- Talk Like TED – Carmine Gallo
- Business Is Personal – Penny Power
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck – Mark Manson
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business – Patrick Lencioni
- Find Your Thing: Lucy Whittington
- Thrive – Ariana Huffington
- The 80:20 Principle – Richard Koch
- Black Box Thinking – Matthew Syed
- Revisionist Histories – Malcolm Gladwell
- Get Social – Michelle Carvill
What are your favourites, on or off the list and why?
2 Responses
Seeing as you already have Sapiens (great book!) I would suggest The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It’s all about incredibly improbable or unpredictable events and how we rationalise them. I read it after his previous book (Fooled by Randomness) when trying to understand market trading psychology and the propensity of people to dissociate trading financial markets from the concept of gambling, but as a business owner, this one made me think about building robustness in the face of the unforeseen and being adaptable to ever-changing technology and industry.
This book changed my perspective on running a business, how purpose drives profit and how to create a tribe of true believers – Leading with Noble Purpose – Lisa Earle McLeod.