2009 was a great year of business reading for me. I was determined to read as much as I could in order to learn ways to take our company to the next level. Unfortunately, during the prior years, I didn’t read as much as I needed to read. Honestly, after four years in business school and three years in law school, I was a little burnt out on reading. Sad but true story. This year was different and I was yearning to learn anything I could. (And just a side note, for the people that think that they have been in the business for a long time and know what they are doing and don’t need to read or learn more, you are fooling yourself! We never stop learning and when you do stop, you might as well close up shop. If you don’t, the shop will close up on you, I promise!) Anyway, I read or re-read close to 50 business books this year and I have listed ten of my favorites below (in no particular order.) Also, check out the authors to these books, because lots of them have several books that are worth reading.
1. Never Fly Solo: Lead with Courage, Build Trusting Partnerships, and Reach New Heights in Business by Robert “Waldo” Waldman
2. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
3. Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing by Harry Beckwith
4. Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk
5. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
6. Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us by Seth Godin
7. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
8. Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even If You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port
9. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
10. The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness by Jeffrey Gitomer
Now, I know it may seem nerdy, but not only did I read a lot of books this year, I took notes on every one of them. I encourage you to do the same. Whether you are reading them with your colleagues, staff, or just by yourself, having the notes to review after you have read the book is so beneficial. I actually started an online business book library for our company which has a digital copy of my notes. This makes it easy to compare notes and/or allows other team members to review the notes that I took.
So tell me, what were your top 10 books this year?
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