5 Business Books You Should Be Reading
How do you build your business? What are the oncoming trends that you must pay attention to? Will some new philosophy come along to change the way business is done? Each year hundreds of thousands of pages and countless digital gigabytes are devoted to these questions. No matter how dedicated you are, you’ll never have time to read them all. You probably shouldn’t even try. Here are five of the best 2016 has to offer:
Invisible Selling Machine by Ryan Deiss. Making money is hard work, so why not try to do some of it in your sleep? Diess shares his knowledge of marketing automation tools and provides tips you can use to generate more sales in your business. In addition, he covers the five phases of the prospect/ customer lifecycle and tells you how to automate your marketing at each stage.
Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big by Julia Pimsleur. The CEO of Little Pim, Pimsleur shares her story of becoming one of the few women backed by venture capital. How does a female entrepreneur get past the ‘mom and pop’ stage and push onward towards huge growth? Pimsleur provides answers and introduces the reader to other women who have built powerful fund raising networks for their businesses.
Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval. Success is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. That’s the motto of this book as the authors chronicle the lives of Steve Jobs, Colin Powell and others— people who grew up ordinary, yet who went on to do extraordinary things.
The Power of Broke: How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage by Daymond John and Daniel Paisner. Most entrepreneurs don’t start out with deep pockets. They may not even want to. This book follows the story of Daymond John, the founder of FUBU, a $6 billion dollar clothing company, and shows how being broke can teach you to think more creatively and use your resources more effectively.
Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life by Jason Selk, Tom Bartow and Matthew Rudy. Not every business leader or star athlete is successful because they have the most talent. How did they get where they are? The authors show you in this book that demonstrates that great habits rather than innate talent can be the key to your success.
A great book on business, like a great novel, can inspire you to think in new ways. These books may inspire you to dust off your Kindle or iPad or settle in with some old-fashioned paper and start innovating. Happy Reading.