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Home > Self-Employed Success Blog > Running a Strong & Efficient Business > Business Books Recommended by My Facebook Friends
Business Books Recommended by My Facebook Friends

Business Books Recommended by My Facebook Friends

Karyn Greenstreet

I’m collecting a list of must-have business books…books you’ve read (and maybe re-read) that clearly helped the way you think and the way you do things in your business, above all other books.
Are there one or two books that you would add to this list?

Here’s how my Facebook friends responded:

  • Sherry Davies-Selak says:  Think and Grow Rich would have to be up there. Also Psycho-cybernetics. and Fearless Living by Rhonda Britten, not about business specifically but about everything that we don’t do because of fear.
  • Cathy Jennings says: The Success Principles by Jack Canfield and Get Clients Now by CJ Hayden
  • Beth Silver Pilchik says: Strengthsfinders 2.0. I am always recommending this book to my clients.
  • Mary C. Weaver says:  Thick Face, Black Heart
  • Lenore Smathers says:  The E Myth … by Michael Gerber.  Wish it was the first book I read pre-going into biz
  • Janet Eisenbise says:  Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity by Stacy Hall & Jan Brogneiz. Am reading it for the QSCA coaching course, and finding it very helpful!
  • Dana Lutton Baedke says: Totally agree with The EMyth, it is a game-changer. I also highly recommend Jim Collins’ Good to Great and two from Michael Port – Book Yourself Solid and Beyond Booked Solid. Can’t wait to see the entire list!
  • Téa Silvestre says:   Social Media is B.S. by B. J. Mendelson;  Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate;  Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath;  Launch by Michael Stelzner; Content Rules by Ann Handley;  Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust; Engagement from Scratch by Danny Iny.
  • Jim Perry says: Daniel Pink’s “A Whole New Mind“
  • Rita Guthrie says: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell!  He talks about how ideas, mindset, trends, …& the sale of products…  evolve & spread virally. I use Gladwell’s theories a lot when teaching clients & groups how their personality & connectivity has great power…& how to use it best.
  • Suzanne Hiscock says: Work Less, Make More by Jennifer White; Start With Why By Simon Sinek.
  • Elizabeth Trezise Barbour says: The Four Agreements (not biz but biz, ya know?!)
  • Jen Phillips April says:  Just finished “Switch” by Dan and Chip Heath — deals with making change easier.
  • Saralyn Monroe Collins says:  The Oz Principle and all books connected with that! They are fantastic!
  • Chellie Campbell says: I vote for “Fearless Living” by Rhonda Britten, and I’d add “Secrets of Closing the Sale” by Zig Ziglar (or anything else of his).
  • Kelly Schaefer says:  How to be a rainmaker;  Referral of a Lifetime;  The War of Art
  • Gudmundur Sigurdarson says: The unfair advantage
  • Sherry Davies-Selak says:  Oh and ‘Influence- the psychology of persuasion by  Robert Cialdini
  • Lynn James says: Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazi; Who’s Got Your Back, Keith Ferrazi; The Path, Laurie Beth Jones; The Brand Within, Daymond John
  • Donna Klaffky Pullan says: The Slight Edge…great for all aspects of life…personal & professional. There is a teen version too that I had my son read over spring break and we are always referencing it.  A MUST READ!!
  • Ariane Cherbuliez says: Primal Leadership
  • Sherice Jacob says: Linchpin;  The Magic of Thinking Big;  The Millionaire Mind
  • Kate Frank says: The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics
  • Joe McCready says:  Love Bob Burg’s Endless Referrals
  • Jim Buttjer says:  How to win friends and influence people and 7 habits of highly effective people.
  • Zac Vega says: Thanks for asking:  How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur’s Guide – Dan S. Kennedy ; Rich Dad, Poor Dad – Robert T. Kiyosaki; Looking out for #1  – Robert J. Ringer;  The magic of thinking big – David Schwartz;  The Innovation Paradox – Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes. It’s funny how I have many of the recommendations people are posting, that’s why I won’t add duplicates, like The 7 habits
  • Sally Cevasco says:  “Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You’ve Got” by Jay Abraham
  • Greg Boretz says: Here’s one that you may not have considered but is chocked full of insights that have transformed entire industries. The Power of Habit
  • Dorian Lynn Hidy says: Karyn two on the sales side are: SNAP Selling by Jill Konrath
  • Kate Williams says: Seth Godin Lynchpin and The Icarus Deception; Getting Things Done by David Allen.
  • Karen Senteio says: The Spark, the Flame and the Torch,  by Lance Secretan
  • Cherry Garcia-Reyes says: John Maxwell’s “21Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” 🙂
  • Marty Marsh says: People Buy You by Jeb Blount, Make a Name for Yourself by Scott Ginsberg, 7 Graces of Marketing by Lynn Serafinn (and about a hundred others!)
  • Charles Villanueva says: “Enchantment” by Guy Kawasaki, the art of changing hearts, minds, and actions.

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  1. Dana Baedke

    September 18, 2013 at 9:54 am

    I have to add Erik Wahl’s Unthink: Rediscover Your Creative Genius. Reading this one now.

    http://www.amazon.com/Unthink-Rediscover-Your-Creative-Genius/dp/0770434002

    • Karyn Greenstreet

      September 18, 2013 at 1:42 pm

      Thanks for the book suggestion, Dana. (I think it’s time I invested in more book shelves. LOL)

  2. Kelly

    September 18, 2013 at 12:39 pm

    What a great compilation… We could keep the book stores in business for life! Or perhaps start up a book swap! Hmmm. Ideas!

    • Karyn Greenstreet

      September 18, 2013 at 1:41 pm

      That’s a brilliant idea, Kelly! Hmmm…how to create a country-wide book swap of business books??? Now you’ve got my head spinning. 🙂

  3. Lucy Graham

    October 21, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    On the subject of strategic planning and management, you’ll be hard pushed to find a better and more informative read that The Institute Way. https://balancedscorecard.org/Shop/ProductDetails/tabid/498/ProductID/1/Default.aspx

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