101 Business Books For Entrepreneurs & Leaders

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

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