Well, as promised, I’ve shared below some of my personal favourites—books that have helped shaped my experiences and learning thus far—I’d also love it if you shared your favourite books on my FACEBOOK PAGE (see you there).
Business Strategy and Planning
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t (Jim Collins)
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Jim Collins)
- Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All (Jim Collins)
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It (Michael E. Gerber)
- The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business (Patrick Lencioni)
- Re-imagine! (Tom Peters)
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant (W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne)
Marketing
- Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers (Seth Godin)
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Seth Godin)
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (Seth Godin)
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping (Paco Underhill)
Personal and Leadership Development
- How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
- 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You (John C. Maxwell)
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Stephen R. Covey)
- The Brand You 50: Reinventing Work (Tom Peters)
- Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality (Dr. Henry Cloud)
- Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward (Dr. Henry Cloud)
- Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons (Seymour Schulich)
Fun Concepts
- Outliers: The Story of Success (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)
- Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner)
So buy or borrow a book you don’t have and start reading, or pull down a favourite and re-read it (and maybe pour yourself an extra cup of coffee).
