Do you know a start up junkie? Here are the best entrepreneur books to fuel their business adventures! Business books make a perfect Christmas gift for entrepreneurs!
1) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era
Ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional & personal tasks, & has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, & offshoots
Helps Entrepreneurs take control & get more value from their time
"The Bible of business and personal productivity" — Lifehack
2) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business
66% of small businesses fail, and it isn't for the reasons you think. Why do they fail?
Walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective
Shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a franchise.
Finally, the book draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business & working in your business.
3) The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively
Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want
Enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute
Provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever
4) Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
Has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature"
This is the updated version of the 1937 classic, written for modern readers
Deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth
5) How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Creator of the Dilbert comic strip
Uses his own life to illustrate his thesis that failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing
Adams’ own list of failures is—surprisingly lengthy: a couple of unsuccessful restaurants as well as computer games, inventions, and online businesses that all tanked
Key element of his philosophy—you learn by trying, not by succeeding
The book does a great job blending humor with serious advice
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