Books To Grow You And Your Business
I often get asked for book recommendations from clients and prospects. Usually it’s ‘what business book would you recommend’. The challenge is there are so many great books out there that I could give you a long list which will leave you overwhelmed.
Instead, think hard about what area you want to improve in and ask for a book for that specific area.
You must remember though, that reading and learning doesn’t get things done. Only taking ACTION does that. Here’s my simple formula for success:
DREAMS X GOALS X LEARN X PLAN X ACTION = SUCCESS
Here are a few to get you started.
Marketing
The Purple Cow – Seth Godin
Expert Secrets – Russel Brunson (and Traffic Secrets by Russell Brunson)
Building A Story Brand 2.0 – Donald Miller
Start With Why – Simon Sinek
Buying Customers 2.0 – Brad Sugars
The Referral Machine – John Jantsch
Sales
Questions Are The Answers – Allan Pease
Spin Selling – Neil Rackham
Gap Selling – Keenan
The Art Of Closing The Sale – Brian Tracy
$100m Offers – Alex Hormozi
Exactly What To Say – Phil M. Jones
Fanatical Prospecting – Jeb Blount (marketing, sales and mindset)
The Perfect Close – James Muir
The Compound Effect – Darren Hardy
Negotiation
Never Split The Difference – Chris Voss
Getting To Yes – Roger Fisher, William Ury
Start With No – Jim Camp
Difficult Conversations – Bruce Patton
Management, Leadership and Coaching
Key Person Of Influence – Daniel Priestly
The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team – Patrick Lencioni
Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
Coaching For Performancec – Sir John Whitmore
The Coaching Habit – Michael Stanier Bungay
Legacy – James Kerr
Dare To Lead – Brene Brown
Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard
The One Minute Manager Meets The Monkey – Ken Blanchard
Culture and Communication
Surrounded By Idiots – Thomas Erikson (and others in the Surrounded By series)
The Psychology Of Stupidity – Jean-Francois Marmion
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster – Ben Hunt-Davis
The Culture Map – Erin Mayer
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Marshall Goldsmith
Talk Like TED – Carmine Gallo
Thinking Fast And Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Radical Candour – Kim Scott
Business Systems
The E-Myth Revisited – Michael E. Gerber
Systemology – David Jenyns
Measure What Matters – John Doerr
Traction – Gino Wickman
Scaling Up – Verne Harnish
Customer Service
The Edge – Michael Heppell
Five Star Customer Service – Michael Heppell
Celebrity Service – Geoff Ramm
Unreasonable Hospitality – Will Guidara
Mindset
You can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins
Atomic Habits – James Claer
High Performance – Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes
Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey
Seven Strategies For Wealth And Happiness – Jim Rohn
Think And Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
Right, that’s a hell of a reading list to get you started. What other specific areas do you want to learn about?
Remember reading and learning doesn’t get things done though. Only taking ACTION will do that.
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