Business Books: Entrepreneurs Pick Their Favorites

Q: What is your favorite business book and why?

--Sally, Arizona

The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council. Founded by Scott Gerber, the Y.E.C. is a nonprofit organization that provides young entrepreneurs with access to tools, mentorship, community and educational resources that support each stage of their business's development and growth. The organization promotes entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment and underemployment.

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Anything By John C. Maxwell

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John Maxwell is a rare breed of author who's actually walked the talk and speaks from experience. Having built several successful businesses, his books are filled with actionable content and outstanding advice. From relationship building to dealing with setbacks, he offers clear and sound advice on succeeding as a leader. --Lisa Nicole Bell (@LisaNicoleBell), Inspired Life Media Group

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John Maxwell is a rare breed of author who's actually walked the talk and speaks from experience. Having built several successful businesses, his books are filled with actionable content and outstanding advice. From relationship building to dealing with setbacks, he offers clear and sound advice on succeeding as a leader.
--Lisa Nicole Bell (@LisaNicoleBell), Inspired Life Media Group

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[Dinesh R Makwana]

02:13 PM on 06/03/2011

Newspapers with their reviews help books and they maintain a special channel of communication care in my opinion.I would strongly recommend Winning by Jack Welch and Suzy Welch. If you judge books by class and content, Jack Welch's Winning certainly grabs your attention. Powerful testimonials on the back come from none other than the superbly talented Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rudy Giuliani, and Tom Brokaw, and other praise comes from Fortune, Business Week, and Financial Times. As the legendary retired CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch has won many friends and admirers in high places. In this latest book, he strives to show why. Winning describes the management wisdom that Welch built up through four and a half decades of work at GE, as he transformed the industrial giant from a sleepy "Old Economy" company with a market capitalization of some $4 billion to a new dynamic giant one worth nearly half a trillion dollars.
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DINESH R MAKWANA (DREAMWORDS AND INORBITS)

[Number2CaliGirl]

10:32 PM on 05/16/2011

Excuses Begone by Wayne Dyer. Love this list of 30. AHHHH. So much to read, so little time!

[Nei Grando]

06:12 PM on 05/13/2011

Some of my favorite business books:

- Business Model Generation, by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur;
- Do More Faster, by TechStars;
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany, by Steve Blank (Lean Startup);
- Personal MBA, by Josh Kaufman;
- Rework, by 37Signals;
- Winning, by Jack Welch; .

[ViviMarr Williams]

10:40 AM on 05/11/2011

John C Maxwell is the best business writer - positive & powerful ideas for work and life. I have all his books and my favorites at the moment are "Thinking For A Change" and "Talent Is Never Enough".

Tom Peters - he challenges you to think from different perspectives. Love "Reimagine".

[themodernleader]

01:42 AM on 05/10/2011

  Most of what is written about business is not business.

[radrave]

12:55 AM on 05/07/2011

These "blog talk entrepreneurs" crack me up. This is what passes for entrepeneurship in America these days?

[EricBishop]

11:21 PM on 05/04/2011

It's nice that the "Young Entrepreneur Society" guy looks like he's 43.

[mooklyn]

10:44 AM on 05/04/2011

Probably should be some books about failures as well. I do not recall the title, but on NPR, an author describes the nightmare of the death spiral of a successful publishing company because the other partner, who was a friend of his father, was an alcoholic.

The moral of the fable, was "Know the people you're going into business with."

[Marty Nickison]

07:44 AM on 05/04/2011

5 I recommend:

1. The E Myth (try to find the original edition), Mike Gerber
2. The Success System That Never Fails, William Clement Stone
3. The 4 Hour Work Week, Tim Feriss
4. Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, Mary Buffett and David Clark
5. How to Hire A-Players, Eric Herrenkohl

...and one more for the win:

6. Getting to Plan B, John Mullins and Randy Komisar



Marty Nickison
www.collegesuccessshow.com