{Heart} Books
Today is National Book Lover’s Day and so I am sharing with my fellow small business owners my ten favorite business books:
- Plowing the Sea: Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World by Michael Fairbanks and Stace Lindsay
- Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living by Tsh Oxenreider
- Blueprint to a Billion: Seven Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth by David G. Thomson
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
- Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company by Tom Searcy and
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits by C.K. Prahalad
- As One: Individual Action, Collective Power by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley
- Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas by James Butman
- The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy by Pietra Rivoli
I’d be grateful if you would share your recommendations with me. As part of my commitment to implement the tenets of “Essentialism”, I donated over 1200 books to a library and have a new system for managing my reading list. I keep a running “wish list” of books I want to read and then check them out of the local public library, taking advantage of the inter-library loan program if my local branch does not have the book. I take careful notes and digitize them before returning the book. If the book is one that I will return to often and I want to make it a permanent part of my collection, I will get the Kindle version or maybe wait until it comes out in paperback to purchase it. This process frees up space in my home office and I feel less overwhelmed.