The Business Owner’s Library Shelf

Staying ahead of the curve means staying on top of the industry.

A collection of business books that will help business owners become more successful in the operations of their business.

  1. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, by Michael Gerber (1995)
  2. Too Big to Fail, Andrew Ross Sulkin, (2009)
  3. The Dilbert Principle: A Cubicle's-Eye View of Bosses, Meetings, Management Fads, and Other Workplace Afflictions, by Scott Adams (1996)
  4. First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman (1999)
  5. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't, by Jim Collins (2001)
  6. How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie (1936)
  7. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham (2008)
  8. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, by Yvon Chouinard (2005)
  9. Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, by Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg (1996)
  10. Personal History, by Katharine Graham (1997)
  11. The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter (1998)
  12. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know by Jim Camp (2002)
  13. Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch, (2006)
  14. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum (1988)
  15. Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey (1992)
  16. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (1990)
  17. First Things First by Stephen R. Covey (1995)
  18. Leadership by the Book by Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels, and Phil Hodges (1990)
  19. The Heart of a Leader by Ken Blanchard (1999)
  20. Lincoln on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips (1992)
  21. Robert E. Lee on Leadership by H.W. Crocker III (1999)
  22. The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt (2004)
  23. Deming’s Road to Continual Improvement by William W. Scherkenbach (1991)
  24. The Fail Proof Enterprise by Bob Thomas (2003)
  25. Reagan on Leadership—Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator by James Strock (2008)
  26. Executive EQ by Robert K. Cooper and Ayman Sawaf (1997)
  27. Manager’s Guide to Operations Management by John Kamauff (2009)
  28. Hundred Percenters: Challenge your Employees to Give it Their All and They Will Give You Even More by Mark Murphy (2009)

 

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