Business Leadership Resources
SMALL BUSINESS COACH RECOMMENDED BOOKS
| Books/Audio Recordings (We highly recommend these books) | Author |
| The Holy Bible |
God
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| The Power of Positive Thinking | Norman Vincent Peale |
| The Ultimate Sales Machine | Chet Holmes |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu |
| How to Win Friends & Influence People | Dale Carnegie |
| The Great Game of Business | Jack Stack |
| Open Book Management | John Case |
| As A Man Thinketh | James Allen |
| The Servant | James Hunter |
| Half Time | Bob Buford |
| E-Myth Revisited | Michael Gerber |
| God’s Word of Life for Leaders | Organized Scripture |
| Think and Grow Rich | Napoleon Hill |
| Developing the Leader Within You | John Maxwell |
| Love and Profit- Art of Caring Leadership | James Autry |
| The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen Covey |
| The Greatest Salesman in the World | Og Mandino |
| Rich Dad, Poor Dad | R. Kiyosaki, S. Lechter |
| The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership | John Maxwell |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius |
| Raving Fans | K. Blanchard, S.Bowles |
| Good to Great | Jim Collins |
| The Richest Man In Babylon | George Samuel Clason |
| Benjamin Franklin’s Secret of Success and What it Did for Me | Frank Bettger |
| The Science of Getting Rich | Wallace D. Wattles |
| The Secret | Rhonda Byrne |
| The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires | Brian Tracy |
| The Prophet | The Complete Fables | Kahlil Gibran |
| The Practice Of Management | Peter F. Drucker |
| The 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership | John C. Maxwell |
| Way of the Peaceful Warrior | Dan Millman |
| Acres of Diamonds | Russell Conwell |
| See You at the Top | Zig Ziglar |
| The Power of Positive Thinking | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Financial Destiny! | Tony Robbins |
| The One Minute Manager | Ken Blanchard |
| Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t | Jim Collins |
| The Automatic Millionaire | David Bach |
| Who Moved My Cheese? | Dr. Spencer Johnson |
Business Leadership Resources
| TV SHOWS |
| Shark Tank |
| The Profit |
| Restaurant Impossible |
| Undercover Boss |
| Undercover Billionaire |
| Books/Audio (We highly recommend these books) | Author |
| The Success Principles | Jack Canfield |
| Start With Why | Simon Sinek |
| Built to Sell | John Warrilow |
| Small Business Solutions | |
| Guerilla Marketing | Jay Conrad Levinson |
| The Startup Owner’s Manual | Steve Blank |
| The Lean Startup | Eric Ries |
| Exactly What to Say | Phil Jones |
| 12 Rules For Life | Jordan Peterson |
| Blue Ocean Strategy | Renee Mauborgne |
| Scaling Up | Verne Harnish |
| This is Marketing | Seth Godin |
| Building a Story Brand | Donald Miller |
| Good Leaders Ask Great Questions | John Maxwell |
| Way of the Wolf | Jordan Belfort |
| The 12 Week Year | Brian Morgan |
| The Goal | Eliyahu Goldratt |
| The 4-Hour Workweek | Tim Ferriss |
| Content Inc | Joe Pulizzi |
| Traction | Gino Wickman |
| High Performance Habits | Brendon Buchard |
| Sales Revelation | Jim Rohn, Zig Ziglar, Others |
| Organizations |
| Business Networking International |
| Toastmasters |
| Small Business Development Centers |
| Magazine Subscriptions | |
| World Magazine | https://world.wng.org/ |
| Entrepreneur | https://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine |
| Inc Magazine | https://www.inc.com/ |
In addition to the amazing benefits of coaching and mentoring, entrepreneurs and business owners can grow dramatically through getting knowledge.
“If you’re green you’re growing, if you’re ripe you rot.” ~Ray Kroc
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