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101 Business Books For Entrepreneurs & Leaders

    101 Business Books

    Reading books is one of the best ways to educate yourself on any subject. If you are reading this blog you want to educate yourself on business, how to start a business, build a brand, become profitable and build your team. I have included some of the best books about Leadership, Management, Marketing, Branding, Finance and Team Building. All of them are great tools to help you in your entrepreneur journey.

    Most of these helped me on my journey as I started my business, built my team and brand, franchised my business, grew into a multi-million dollar business which I ended up selling. I highly believe these books will help you on the right path of your journey.

    Leadership/Entrepreneurship

    Good To Great – Jim Collins

    Start With Why- Simon Sinek

    Serve 2 Win: Eight Steps To Making a Living & A Life – Mitch Durfee

    Extreme Ownership How U.S.Navy Seals Lead and Win – Jocko Willink

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey

    How To Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

    Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek

    The Innovators Dilemma – Clayton M. Christensen

    Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success – Adam Grant

    Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell

    The One Minute Manager – Ken Blanchard

    Radical Condor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity- Kim Scott

    The Coaching Habit Say Less, Ask More & Change The Way You Lead Forever – Michael Bungay Stanier

    The Art of War – Sun Tzu

    Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill

    Primal Leadership: Unleashing The Power of Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman & Richard E. Boyatzis

    Leadership And Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box – The Arbinger Institute

    Principles – Ray Dalio

    Developing The Leader Within You – John C Maxwell

    Turn The Ship Around! A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders – L. David Marquet

    #Girlboss – Sophia Amoruso

    Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader – Herminia Ibarra

    EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches – Dave Ramsey

    Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us – Seth Godin

    Management

    First, Break All The Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently – Jim Harter, Marcus Buckingham & Gallup Organization

    Getting Things Done the art of stress-free productivity – David Allen

    The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done – Peter F. Drucker

    Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – Jim Collins & Jerry I Porras

    The 4-Hour Work Week – Timothy Ferriss

    The Manager’s Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change – Camille Fournier

    Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters – Richard Rumelt

    In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies – Thomas J. Peters & Robert H. Waterman Jr.

    Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant – W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne

    Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life – Spencer Johnson

    The Goal: The Process of Ongoing Improvement: Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox

    Competing For The Future – Gary Hamel & C. K. Prahalad

    Strengths Finder 2.0 – Tom Rath

    The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right – Atul Gawande

    The Great Game of Business: The Only Sensible Way To Run A Company – Jack Stack & Bo Burlingham

    Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management – Scott Berkun

    High Output Management – Andrew S. Grove

    The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results – Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

    The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals – Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Huling

    Marketing/Advertising/Branding

    Contagious: Why Things Catch On – Jonah Berger

    Building a Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen – Donald Miller

    Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini

    How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don’t Know – Byron Sharp

    All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works –and Why Authenticity Is The Best Marketing Of All – Seth Godin

    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell

    Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products – Nir Eyal

    Epic Content Marketing: How to Tell a Different Story, Break through the Clutter, and Win More Customers by Marketing Less – Joe Pulizzi

    Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers – Jay Baer

    Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence and How You Can, Too- Gary Vaynerchuk

    Selling The Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing – Harry Beckwith

    Dotcom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online- Russell Brunson

    Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business – Gino Wickman

    Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising – Ryan Holiday

    NonObvious: How To Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future – Rohit Bhargava

    The Conversion Code: Capture Internet Leads, Create Quality Appointments, Close More Sales – Chris Smith

    Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team – Alina Wheeler

    Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy – Martin Lindstrom

    Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip Heath

    A Technique For Producing Ideas: A simple five step formula for producing ideas – James Webb Young

    Sales

    Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversion, Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text and Cold Calling – Jeb Blount

    How To Master The Art of Selling – Top Hopkins

    How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling – Frank Bettger

    The Way Of The Wolf: Straight Line Selling: Master the Art of Persuasion, Influence, and Success – Jordan Belfort

    The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies – Chet Holmes

    Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal – Oren Klaff

    Cracking The Sales Management Code: The Secrets to Measuring and Managing Sales Performance – Jason Jordan

    Coaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions: A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives – Keith Rosen

    Secrets of Closing the Sale – Zig Ziglar

    The Challenger Customer: Selling to The Hidden Influencer Who Can Multiply Your Results – Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, Pat Spenner and Nick Toman

    Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It – Chris Voss & Tahl Raz

    Swim With Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition – Harvey B. Mackay

    The Science of Selling: Proven Strategies To Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal – David Hoffeld

    Sell of be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life – Grant Cardone

    Selling To The C-Suite: What Every Executive Wants You To Know About Successfully Selling to the Top – Nicholas A.C. Read & Stephen J. Bistritz

    Words That Sell: More than 6,000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services and Ideas – Richard Bayan

    Team Building

    The Five Dysfunctions of A Team: A Leadership Fable – Patrick Lencioni

    The Culture Code: Secrets of Highly Successful Groups – Daniel Coyle

    The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues – Patrick Lencioni

    Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World – General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell

    The Soul Of A Team: A Modern-Day Fable for Winning Teamwork – Tony Dungy & Nathan Whitaker

    The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization – Jon R. Katzenback & Douglas K. Smith

    The Power of a Positive Team: Proven Principles and Practices That Make Great Teams – Jon Gordon

    Nine Lies About Team Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide To The Real World – Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall

    One Mission: How Leaders Build A Team of Teams – Chris Russell, C.W. Goodyear & General Stanley McChrystal

    Unstoppable Teams: Transforming Your Mindset to Create Change, Accelerate Results, and Be the Best At What You Do – Dave Anderson

    Debugging Teams: Better Productivity Through Collaboration – Brian W. Fitzpatrick & Ben Collins-Sussman

    Group Genius : The Creative Power of Collaboration – Keith Sawyer

    High Five The Magic of Working Together – Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles

    Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for transforming Underperforming Teams – Joe Frontiera, Daniel Leidl, James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

    Finance

    Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not – Robert T. Kiyosaki

    The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America – Warren E. Buffet & Lawrence A. Cunningham

    Financial Intelligence: A Managers Guide To Knowing What Numbers Really Mean – Karen Berman, Joe Knight & John Case

    The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy – Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko

    The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel – Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig & Warren E. Buffet

    Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track – Garrett Sutton & Gerri Detweiler

    Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine – Mike Michalowicz

    The Richest Man In Babylon – George S. Clason

    If you don’t like reading books and prefer to listen to audiobooks you can get my best selling book The Millionaire Business Mindset for free when you sign up for Audibles. Click here

    What Did You Think?

    What books have you read that helped you in your business? I would love to hear what you think. Leave me a comment or a questions below.

    Related: 12 Real Estate Investing You Need To Read

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