I’m often asked “what’s some recommended readings?” while I’m at a presentation or coaching a group.
A KEY question that I ask the groups I facilitate is “What’s on your nightstand?” WHAT are they reading? What do leaders have on their nightstand? What do CEOs have on their nightstand? What do successful solopreneurs have on their nightstand?
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Mouth To Mouth Marketing: Breathe Life Into Your Business-Maria Elena Duron
Packed with practical and inspirational practices to help you get connected, nurture those connects and profit from them!
Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand - Kirsten Dixson, William Arruda
Readers will learn to manage their brand and their online identities using innovative tools to differentiate their candidature and stand out from their peers. This book is the instruction manual for creating a rewarding career in the new world of work.
SUCCESSFUL HIGH RESULTS SALES PEOPLE - What’s on their nightstand?:
Book Yourself Solid - Michael Port
This is the modern day version of all those business networking books that sell their system. This is the professional day book that includes all the aspects of technology and our fast-paced environment to do business by referral.
The written and spoken word can engage and empower someone or take away and repel them. Triggers brings the genius of key words and phrases to make you money.
You can’t do business with someone if they don’t remember who you are! Be remarkable and be remembered! The ultimate inspiration to being visible.
Major Account Sales Strategies - Neil Rackman
Major accounts are those big elephants that take time to bag! Here are the tips to systematize and shortcut that effort to results!
10 Secrets of Time Management for Salespeople: Gain the Competitive Edge and Make Every Second Count - Dave Kahle
Time management and sales don’t seem to go hand-in-hand. Learn 10 key things you can do to be effective in your time management and have great sales!
SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS - What’s on their nightstand?:
You Can’t Steal Second With Your Foot On First - Burke Hedges
This book is an amazing synopsis about the disease of “jobism” and how it pulls people away from their dream. This book is NOT for everyone. It is only for those who have known “there’s more to this”!
Before You Quit Your Job - Robert Kiyosaki
More of the same from the author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”. If you “got it” with the original “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” then LEAVE this book behind. However, if you had “wished” there was a “plan” given with “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” or that someone would just organize it in a step-by-step fashion - then this is the book for you.
The Renaissance Soul – Margaret Lobenstine
Those people with several passions who can pursue many are magnificient. Never let anyone else tell you again to FOCUS! Strengthen your strengths and go far.
Success Principles – Jack Canfield
Anything from Jack Canfield is great. Especially in building your emotional, self-confidence “bank account” to ensure that you can risk enough to get ahead.
Cracking the Networking CODE: Four Steps to Priceless Business Relationships -Dean Lindsay
I have a comment actually IN this book! Great practical tips on “how to work a room”!
Grow Your Business Without Driving Yourself Crazy – Mike Van Horn
Great reference book on “how to” deal with anything that happens in a new and growing business.
Refuse To Choose – Barbara Sher
Just say “no” to those boring people who tell you to focus! This one is so that you can SOAR on your strengths.
The Dream Giver - Bruce Wilkinson If you are surrounded by “dream stealers” or “dream killers” (those well meaning friends or family members who want to DEFINE who you are) then this book is for you.
One Minute Millionaire - Robert Allen This is an inspirational book AND a practical book. If you want to understand the “how tos” of mulitiple streams of income or how to implement what you read in “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” this is an important book to have.
SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IN BUSINESS - What’s on their nightstand?:
In The Company of Women - by Pat Heim, Susan Murphy, and Susan K. Golant Working with women in business or in groups, bring an entirely different dynamic. Learn what those dynamics are an how to apply that knowledge!
Wildly Wealthy Fast - Sandy Forster Your relationship with money and abundance is key to making money in any endeavor. This practical book provides step by step exercises to get you wildly, wealthy fast.
Achieving Success Through Social Capital - Baker Social Capital is just as important investment as your financial capital. Learn how to utilize it from the expert…his work is quoted in all those business networking books that sell their system. Here’s hard-core info without the sales pitch!
This Is How We Do It: The Working Mother’s Manifesto - Carol Evans Finally a book that truly addresses the challenges and triumphs of working mothers! The good ol’ boy circle needs to learn about the mothers that work and the companies that employ them. If you are a working mother, this book is a powerhouse for you!
SUCCESSFUL LEADERS - What’s on their nightstand?
Good to Great - Jim Collins Learn the “hedgehog” technique here. It will be powerful as you decide the right people to be on the bus in the right seats. Works for solopreneurs and their resource contacts or managers and their team.
Your Marketing Sucks - Mark Stevens Marketing is not just about advertising. Nothing happens until a sale is made. Your marketing needs to directly produce sales, period. How do you evaluate your marketing? Great evaluation tool in this book.
E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber This is the original book on how to systematize your business. Stop working only “in” your business but work “on” your business. This book is the info - straight from the horse’s mouth.
The Etiquette Advantage in Business - Peggy Post Professional image is key to doing business. It takes 7 - 15 seconds to create a first impression and then 56 other contacts to “change” that first impression. Why put obstacles in your way? Why waste time?
The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness - Stephen Covey Here’s where the seven habits go from information to implementation. A great learning tool.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey Bare minimum attributes to nurture in you. If you don’t know what they are, you can’t nurture them.
First Things First - Stephen Covey How to plan your day and your life so that you take care of what matters most.
Getting Organized - Chris Crouch This is the definitive “how to” book on how to put to practice “organization” in your life, desk and business! Better than the explanation in “Getting Things Done” this is a practical, how to put those 43 file systems in place.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki The “how to” book on how the rich get rich and stay rich and how the poor do the same. Learn “what to do”.
The Path - Laurie Beth Jones Looking to formulate your actual mission statement? Here is a step-by-step how to!
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