6 Books every entrepreneur should read.
The 7 habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Covey.
The principles presented in this book for personal effectiveness are a must in your personal life and this will transpire into your business life.
Start With Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek.
Simon provides a framework upon which organisations can be built, movements can be led and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
The E Myth – Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work And What To Do About It by Michael E Gerber.
This book is required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that step. It will help you to learn true entrepreneurship and work on your business rather than working in your business.
Great By Choice by Jim Collins and Morten T Hansen.
This book describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies and how most companies fail to make the transition. The ‘Good to Great’ companies studied all had some form of catalyst that put them on a much higher projectile.
Mastering The Rockefeller Habits – What You Must Do To Increase The Value Of Your Growing Firm by Verne Harnish.
From Verne’s famous One Page Strategic Plan to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best run companies in the world.
In Search Of Excellence - Lessons From America’s Best Run Companies by Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Jnr.
An oldie but a beauty. Considered by many to be the greatest business book of all time. Based on a study of 43 of America’s best run companies. It describes 8 basic principles of management – action-stimulating, people orientated, profit-maximizing practices - that made these organisations successful.