Business Acumen
If there is one thing business books will do without fail it is to provide you with business acumen. They will teach you the common business concepts you need to be fluent in conversations with other business people. Reading widely will introduce you to concepts with which you are not yet familiar.
Books help us in so many ways to succeed as an entrepreneur. They can be a source of inspiration, develop skills, and provide tips and business strategies. They can help us to become successful by providing the right knowledge, new ways of thinking, new insights and help us to develop necessary skills.
Research shows that regular reading:
improves brain connectivity.
increases your vocabulary and comprehension.
empowers you to empathize with other people.
aids in sleep readiness.
reduces stress.
lowers blood pressure and heart rate.
fights depression symptoms.
prevents cognitive decline as you age.It is a great motivation for an individual to do better in life. The more one individual reads, the more his understanding and comprehending skills improve. Better a reader, the easier it becomes for him to complete an assigned work. The habit of reading goes parallelly with the attainment of knowledge.
Here then are 7 highly reviewed books that deserve your reading time:
Working Actor: Breaking in, Making a Living, and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business
Veteran character actor David Dean Bottrell draws on his 35+ tumultuous years of work in the entertainment industry to offer a guide to breaking in, making a living, and making a life in the fabulous trenches of show business.
The Focus Project: The Not So Simple Art of Doing Less
Whether you’re an executive, a mom, a CEO, a teacher, or an entrepreneur…THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF: 1. You feel stretched too thin by trying to do too much.2. There’s no time for relaxation or deep thinking.3. You’re completing thousands of tasks without achieving your goals.Welcome to The Focus Project, a book designed to provide answers and solutions to the challenge of focusing in an unfocused world.
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David translates this skill into a valuable methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of business. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir of leadership and success: The executive chairman of Disney, Time’s 2019 businessperson of the year, shares the ideas and values he embraced during his fifteen years as CEO while reinventing one of the world’s most beloved companies and inspiring the people who bring the magic to life.
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
Upstream probes the psychological forces that push us downstream—including “problem blindness,” which can leave us oblivious to serious problems in our midst. And Heath introduces us to the thinkers who have overcome these obstacles and scored massive victories by switching to an upstream mindset. One online travel website prevented twenty million customer service calls every year by making some simple tweaks to its booking system. A major urban school district cut its dropout rate in half after it figured out that it could predict which students would drop out—as early as the ninth grade. A European nation almost eliminated teenage alcohol and drug abuse by deliberately changing the nation’s culture. And one EMS system accelerated the emergency-response time of its ambulances by using data to predict where 911 calls would emerge—and forward-deploying its ambulances to stand by in those areas.
Starting a Business QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner’s Guide to Launching a Successful Small Business, Turning Your Vision into Reality, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream
This book shows you EXACTLY what you need to know to stand out from the crowd! Do you have an idea for an amazing product or service but you aren’t sure how to build a business around it?
Then you NEED this book. Buy now and start reading today!
HBR’s 10 Must Reads Boxed Set (6 Books) (HBR’s 10 Must Reads)
You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them—in a set of HBR’s 10 Must Reads. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on strategy, change leadership, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your performance.
This six-title collection includes only the most critical articles from the world’s top management experts, curated from Harvard Business Review’s rich archives. We’ve done the work of selecting them so you won’t have to. These books are packed with enduring advice from the best minds in business such as: Michael Porter, Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Jim Collins, Ted Levitt, Gary Hamel, W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne and much more.
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