Books, Business & Investing, Small Business & Entrepreneurship

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Good to Great CD: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
by HarperAudio (CD) (Release Date: 2005-06-14)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

Timothy Ferris
The 4-Hour work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Blackstone Audio Inc. (CD) (Release Date: 2007-04-24)

Tim Ferriss is an extraordinary young man on a mission. The twenty-eight-year-old serial vagabond and successful entrepreneur has been teaching a wildly popular course at Princeton University for the past four years--a how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success (balancing life and work, retiring well, having a great nest egg) and replacing them with a whole new way of living. Readers can lead a rich life by working only four hours a week, freeing up the rest of their time to spend it living the lives they want.

Michael Lewis
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street
by W. W. Norton & Company (Hardcover)

In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through the jungle of a powerful investment bank. In two short years he rose from trainee to a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call.

Michael E. Gerber
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by HarperCollins (Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-03-03)

In this first new and totally revised edition of the 150,000-copy underground bestseller, The E-Myth, Michael Gerber dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business. He walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective, the guiding light of all businesses that succeed. He then shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business—whether or not it is a franchise. Finally, Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in. your business. After you have read The E-Myth Revisited, you will truly be able to grow your business in a predictable and productive way.

Guy Kawasaki
Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
by Portfolio Hardcover (Hardcover)

More uncommon common sense from the bestselling author of The Art of the Start. In Silicon Valley slang, a “bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don’t make sense” . . . it’s time for a reality check. For nearly three decades, Kawasaki has earned a stellar reputation as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and irreverent pundit. His 2004 bestseller, The Art of the Start, has become the most acclaimed bible for small business. And his blog is consistently one of the fifty most popular in the world. Now, Kawasaki has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in handy book form. From competition to customer service, innovation to marketing, he shows readers how to ignore fads and foolishness while sticking ...

Charles D Ellis
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
by Tantor Media (CD)

With unparalleled access to the firm's enigmatic leadership, The Partnership chronicles the brilliant men who built one of the world's largest investment banks.

Curt Coffman
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Simon & Schuster Audio (Audio Cassette)

Ken Fisher
The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!) (Fisher Investments Press)
by Fisher Investments Press (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-20)

Kenneth H. Blanchard, Spencer Johnson
The One Minute Manager
by William Morrow (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1982-09-01)

For more than twenty years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed The One Minute Manager's techniques, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. These very real results were achieved through learning the management techniques that spell profitability for the organization and its employees. The One Minute Manager is a concise, easily read story that reveals three very practical secrets: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings, and One Minute Reprimands. The book also presents several studies in medicine and the behavioral sciences that clearly explain why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. By the book's end you will know how to apply them to your own situation and enjoy the benefits. That's why The One Minute Manager has continued to appear on business bestseller lists for more than two decades, and has become an international sensation.

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