"Possibly the BEST list of business books ever. "
May 20, 2009
No, I am not talking about our book. Twitter was a-flitter with this message today: RT @TPEntrepreneur Possibly the BEST list of business books ever. Totally unexpected stuff!
No, I am not talking about our book.
Twitter was a-flitter with this message today:
RT @TPEntrepreneur Possibly the BEST list of business books ever. Totally unexpected stuff! http://budurl.com/xl2s
Mike Michalowicz, author of the Toliet Paper Entreprenuer, pulled together a list of 66 books recommended by the TPE community. I am always sucker for a good list of business books.
Mike says the problem with business books is "chances are you have read 90% of them already." Based on our experience with The 100 Best, people have generally not read more than ten of our recommended books, so I am not sure that holds water. The biggest problem is that people don't read the right books (check out our essay in Gitomer's Sales Caffeine this week about this very problem).
Anyway, here is the list for you to look over and you can jump over to the TPE site for further commentary on each book:
- The Key by Cheri Huber
- Yes, You Can! by Sam Deep
- The Winning Spirit by Lisa Wicker
- Oh, The Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
- How to Own the World by Stephen K Hayes
- Click by George C Fraser
- Critical Thinking by R. Buckminster Fuller
- Improv by Keith Johnstone
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Stirring It Up by Gary Hirshberg
- The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus
- The Brand YU Life by Hajj E Flemings
- The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin
- Ants at Work by Deborah Gordon
- The Pawnshop Chronicles by Jack E Rossin
- The Bible,The Koran & The Talmud
- It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer
- The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten
- The White Tiger by Arvind Adiga
- WorkLaughs by Allen Klein
- The SPEED of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
- Leaving Microsoft To Change The World by John Wood (800-CEO-READ is a huge fan of Room To Read)
- The Saint, The Surfer, and The CEO by Robin Sharma
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- Inner Game of Management by Flamholtz
- Selling with Emotional Intelligence by Mitch Anthony
- Wacky Days! by Tom Peric
- The Purpose Driven Life by Warren Robert
- Mozart's Brain and The Fighter Pilot by Richard Restak
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- Thinking For A Change by Max Lucado
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Innovator's Solution by Clay Christensen
- The Ice Cream Maker by Subir Chowdhury
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Millionaire in the Mirror by Gene Bedell
- Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
- Shotgun Shopping by Sheevaun OConnor Moran
- Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor
- How to Make Luck by Marc Myers
- The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- The Tao Of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
- The Silva Mind Control Method by Jose Silva
- Power vs Force by David R. Hawkins
- Quantum Leap Thinking by James Mapes
- The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
- Power For Living by Jamie Buckingham
- The Wizard of Ads by Roy Williams
- The Power of Now by Eckhardt Tolle
- You Can't Send A Duck To Eagle School by Mac Anderson
- Ripples from the Zambezi
- The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
- Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
- Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
- Never Give Up by Joyce Meyers
- Employee to Entrepreneur by Suzanne Mulvehill
- Rubies in the Orchard by Lunda Resnick
(I wanted to get the list up quickly. We'll add links and some comments over the next day or so.)