Living Life Looking UP

Borrow My Business Books

February 28, 2018 by Kevin Conklin

I have a problem. Or so I have been told. A book problem.

I frequent thrift stores and browse the book section. And I usually walk out with at least a few business, entrepreneur, or business related “self-help” books.

At one particular thrift store near my home, I can get 3 hardcover books for $0.25 when they have their book sale. Otherwise, they are an astronomical $0.25 each. And paperbacks are $0.17. Typically at Goodwill, the hardcovers are $2.00; paperbacks, $1.00

So, I have three shelves full of business books. Some are classics, some great, others… not so much. But most of them are worth at least a cursory read.

I would like to meet up with other area entrepreneurs and lend each other business books or other material. Here is my proposal: If you see something you might want to read, leave me a comment and tell me what it is, then tell me about something you would be willing to lend – a book, DVD, etc. Let’s exchange for a few days.

Leave a comment for me and let me know what you think.

Here is a partial list of the books on my shelf:

Leadership

• The Leadership Challenge –Kouzes, Posner
• On Becoming a Leader –Bennis
• What the Best CEOs Know –Krames
• Lead Like Jesus –Blanchard, Hodges
• Jesus, CEO –Jones
• Together is Better –Sinek
• Leaders Eat Last –Sinek
• Start With Why –Sinek
• The Servant –Hunter
• Lead or Get Off the Pot! –Croce

Management

• The 10-Minute Marketer’s Secret Formula –Feltenstein
• Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager –Blanchard, Fowler, Hawkins
• It’s Okay to Be the Boss –Tolgen
• The One Minute Manager –Blanchard, Johnson
• Managers, Can You Hear Me Now? –Strigl

Startups

• The Ultimate Small Business Guide
• Start Your Own Business –Lesonsky
• The Art of the Start –Kawasaki
• School for Startups –Beach, Hanks, Beasley
• High Tech Startup –Nesheim
• Your First Business Plan –Covello, Hazelgren
• Growing a Business –Hawken
• The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial Success –Grunder

Success / Winning

• Playing To Win – How Strategy Really Works –Lafley, Martin
• Winning –Welch
• The Winner’s Way –Brill
• Success is Not an Accident –Newberry

Getting Stuff Done

• Making Ideas Happen –Belsky (founder of Behance)
• Ready, Set, Done –Carroll
• Getting Things Done –Allen
• Execution – The Discipline of Getting Things Done –Bossidy, Charan
• Goals! –Tracy
• Results –Neilson, Pasternack

Sales

• Sell Yourself –Berns
• The One Minute Sales Person –Johnson, Wilson
• Spin Selling –Rackham

General Business Performance / Customer Service

• Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization –Blanchard, Bowles
• Rules For Renegades –Comaford-Lynch
• The Portable MBA
• Enterprise One to One – Tools for Competing in the Interactive Age –Peppers, Rogers
• The Relationship Edge in Business –Acuff, Wood
• Good To Great –Collins
• Primed To Perform –Doshi, McGregor
• Hug Your Customers –Mitchell
• Doing Business by the Good Book –Steward, Shook
• First, Break All the Rules –Buckingham, Coffmann
• The Belief System –Green, Hayes
• Mentoring –Wickman, Sjodin
• Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal? –Mittelstaedt
• Street Trends –Lopiano-Misdom, De Luca
• Curation Nation –Rosenbaum
• The Elephant in the Room –Baker
• Switch – How to Change Things When Change is Hard –Heath
• Freakonomics –Levitt, Dubner

Personal Improvement / Motivational / Attitude

• Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading Program –Frank
• How to Win Friends and Influence People –Carnegie
• How To Start a Conversation and Make Friends –Gabor
• Reinventing Your Life –Young, Klosko
• How Full is Your Bucket? –Rath, Clifton
• Life Makeovers –Richardson
• Excuses Begone! –Dyer
• No Excuses! –Tracy
• Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude –Gitomer
• Awaken The Giant Within –Robbins
• Seeing Yourself as Others Do –Keers, Mungavan
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People –Covey
• You Can read Anyone –Lieberman
• Now, Discover Your Strengths –Buckingham, Clifton
• Strengthsfinder 2.0 –Rath
• Key to Living the Law of Attraction –Canfield &, Watkins
• Psych Yourself Rich –Torabi
• Making a Life Making a Living –Albion

Don’t Worry. Be Happy.

• Happier –Shahar
• Take Time For Your Life –Richardson
• A Short Guide to a Happy Life –Quindlen
• The Power of Nice –Thaler, Koval
• Resisting Happiness –Kelly
• The Happiness Project –Rubin
• Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and it’s all small stuff –Carlson
• Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff at Work –Carlson
• Don’t Worry, Make Money –Carlson