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...
Many business books have the same formula: Identify a problem Show your unique way of solving the problem Do so within 300 pages or fewer This means that there’s a predictable comfort with such books. But it also means only a very few go on to become truly...
Ask most business school students and they will often nod their heads in recognition when you mention The Goal. It’s been a mainstay of business school curriculums for decades and despite the fact that it was published in 1984, it still retains relevance today. ...
