“What book should I read?”
There’s a reason entrepreneurs ask each other this question. That’s because the best books aren’t just a good book — they’re comprehensive guides on how to build, grow, and tackle your biggest challenges. So, what should you read?we got a lot of books entrepreneur, and wanted to highlight some of the content that bounced off the page in the last year. The following books can help you overcome adversity, make more money, build a stronger company, and discover overlooked benefits… exit?
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BUILD FOR TOMORROWJason Feffer
The perfect book: Anyone facing a major career change.
About this book: The most successful people fail. and failed. and failed. However, they kept going—reinventing themselves, adapting to change, and turning adversity into opportunity. How did they do that?That’s it entrepreneur Editor-in-Chief Jason Feifer wanted to know, so he spent years researching the brightest and most successful entrepreneurs.
In this book, he puts their experience into practice: he provides a concrete plan for anyone struggling with change and gives readers a competitive advantage. You’ll learn how to think more optimistically, how to expand your skills, how to treat failure as data, and most importantly, how to let go of yesterday – build for tomorrow.
quitAnnie Duke
The perfect book: Anyone feeling stuck.
About this book: Quitting has a bad reputation, writes former poker player and accomplished decision-making expert Anne Duke. In this book, she presents a very different exit—not as a sign of failure, but as an important decision-making tactic that can free us from potentially dead-end projects. “If you’re near Everest and the weather changes, you want to turn around,” she wrote. “It’s true for small things like your major, your job, or your career direction, or a relationship, or piano lessons, or even the movie you’re watching.”
exist quitDuke convincingly argues the benefits of quitting smoking, and then helps us easily make one of the toughest decisions we can make.
The Cold Start Problem, Andrew Chen
The perfect book: A founder who wants to grow and grow.
About this book: A lot of people talk about “network effects,” but Andrew Chen noticed a problem: few people really understand what they are, or how they can help businesses. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and set out to solve this problem with his book.
A network effect, he wrote, refers to a company becoming more valuable as more people use it. (Tinder and Airbnb are good examples: they’re not very useful unless there are a lot of people involved.) So how can founders create network effects quickly — and what anyone in any industry can learn to build one Passionate community user? His book is a guide to doing so, and it’s counterintuitive: To build a large audience, he says, you have to start by purposely narrowing it down.
Miss Independenceby Nicole Lapin
The perfect book: A hard worker who wants to be a real earner.
About this book: If you want to actually make money, you don’t just work.you invest. Here’s information from best-selling financial expert Nicole Lapin, his book Miss Independence A 12-step plan for anyone who wants to start investing and think more seriously about building wealth.
Can’t understand these things? That’s Lapin’s specialty. She breaks down life’s most complex financial decisions, such as taking out a mortgage or owning an investment property, and also provides a guide to investment vehicles like stocks, bonds, REITs, and cryptocurrencies. “You’ll never be as young as you are today,” she wrote, “and it’s never too late to strengthen your independence.”
best no BSDan S. Kennedy
The perfect book: Marketers looking to increase sales.
About this book: Serial entrepreneur Dan S. Kennedy loves great sales and marketing—he turns a blind eye to everything else. His long-running series No BS has been outspoken about business for years, and now he’s compiling the best advice in one place.
This anthology covers everything from how to best spend your marketing dollars, how to turn passive content into an active conversion tool, how to master the art of dropshipping, and he even devotes a chapter to ripping apart a very real magazine ad…and then explaining (in great detail) !) Anyone can do better.
clueVanessa Van Edwards
The perfect book: Introverts who want to stand out.
About this book: Humans speak an unspoken language. It happens in our gestures, gestures, and the little signals we send and receive—often without thinking. So what happens if you learn to read these signals better and then communicate with them more consciously? That’s what Vanessa Van Edwards, self-proclaimed “Recovery Awkward People,” teaches in this book, which helps introverts and ambiverts connect with others and communicate more convincingly.
For example, we all use “soothing gestures”—little gestures that distract us from uncomfortable situations, but also make us appear less attractive. Van Edwards lists them and then offers “replacement strategies” to give our neural bodies better things to do.
The Power of Conflict, Jon Tarver
The perfect book: Someone who works hard to get what they want.
About this book: Jon Taffer is known for yelling.It’s something he often does on TV shows bar rescue, where he indulges misguided restaurateurs and their ungrateful employees. But in his new book, Tarver explains that not all conflicts are created equal.
Most people use conflict emotionally, which he says can backfire. But when conflict is used respectfully and purposefully, it can be a powerful personal and business tool.exist the power of conflictTaffer offers a guide to embracing conflict and using it to its advantage—these lessons are just as useful for conflict avoiders as for the less well-informed bragging.
