We’ve run into Bo Burlingham here on Book Club before. We’ve reviewed his groundbreaking Small Giants book and he was seen as a major source for Dan Andrews’ Before the Exit as well. Burlingham characterizes this as an “end-up” book as opposed to a “start-up” book....
The subtitle of Aaron Muller’s book is “How to Buy a Business, Grow Your Profits, and Make it Run Without You.” While entrepreneurship has perhaps never been more in the public consciousness, the phrase “lifestyle business” is still not commonly known in the general...
Many business books offer solutions or systems or case studies to make their point. Very few offer a simple narrative with lessons gleaned on the journey. Tony Hsieh’s Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, happens to be one of those books. ...
There are some books out there that can tell you the financial side of how people exited their businesses, but there’s not too much literature on the emotional process of selling. Bo Burlingham often refers to a sale as just another “phase” of the business. Dan...
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People was the book that kickstarted the personal development genre that continues to grow every single year. While some have attacked some of Carnegie’s methods as “forced”, its continued selling power since 1936...
We’ve already spoken about a John Warrilow book before, namely The Automatic Customer, which is all about how creating subscription streams of income is something incumbent upon (and doable for!) most businesses today. But before he wrote that, he wrote a book...
