How do you get smarter? Who are the mentors to the ultrarich and mega successful? How do they achieve their success?
Often…it’s because they are READERS. In my blogpost this week, I list 10 Must-Read business books.
Share your favorite books below or on the comment section of my blog.
1) Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less by S.J. Scott
This books helps you focus on key habits to be successful in your business and personal life. I am a big believer in the layering effect. The concept of habit stacking is, from my perspective, the only way it works.
2) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
This is one of the best books about setting up a business; it uses the philosophy of not working in your business but on your business. I think of this concept as taking a 10,000-foot view of the whole big picture.
3) Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
This book was inspired by Andrew Carnegie, one of the richest businessmen of the 19th century. For over 20 years, Hill studied the lives of some of history’s most successful people. I think I have read this book five or six times and still get so much out of it.
4) The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
This book teaches readers that the key to success is a focused, intentional, and positive mindset. Just getting your attitude “right” will shift the experiences you have in your life (and business).
5) Insight: Why We’re Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed At Work and Life by Tasha Eurich
This book encourages the reader to take a good look within for self-examination. Of the subjects Tasha studied, 95% believed they were already self-aware, yet most of them were well off the mark in perceiving how others saw them.
6) Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build The Future by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
This book is a collection of lectures by Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor who founded PayPal in collaboration with one of his former students, Blake Masters. They share valuable insight for entrepreneurs, startup companies, and those venturing out on their own to consider while building their business’s future.
7) Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags by Linda Rottenberg
If sometimes you think you are crazy or most of the time other people think you are, then this book will validate, inspire, and propel you forward to follow your passion and keep going anyway (crazy is the new creative expressed).
8) Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
Richard Branson is an iconic billionaire who shares how he built his famous epic brand, Virgin. His philosophy “Oh, screw it, let’s do it” is the foundation of his fail to succeed and keep-going mindset (meeting Sir Richard Branson is on my bucketlist).
9) How Successful People Think: Change Your Thnking, Change Your Life by John C. Maxwell
This book emphasizes the key elements to consider as a leader and the way successful people think differently (I am obsessively interested in success mindedness).
10) Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
This book focuses on the bigger meaning of why your company exists and what that long-term vision looks like. (I’ve talked about the importance of knowing your WHY to fuel you through your tough times, too.)
