Professional Business Support - Recommended Reading

Books provide a wealth of both entertaining enjoyment and educational information. Each of the books in the recommended reading list below provide lessons to increase your business and to improve the foundation for your professional business support. Reading helps you focus on your success.

These books can be found in the business, self help and new age sections of your book store.

Let's start with a classic, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People helps you interact with others whether they are employees, partners, customers or friends and family.

In a similar style, Zig Ziglar talks about improving personal traits in Better Than Good and Over the Top. Both of these provide excellent advice on how to improve work and working relationships.

Brian Tracy offers prioritization advice in Eat That Frog! where the worst task should be done first.

In The E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber discusses what it takes for an entreprenuer to be successful in business.

Joe Calloway offers work advice for both business owners and employees in Work Like You're Showing Off! A favorite quote from this book is "Showing off is about squeezing maximum fun out of any situation, and having the brains, guts and creativity to not only make lemonade when life throws you lemons, but also make lemon meringue pie, a lemon cake with festive lemon icing rosettes, and a lemon 'watch this' soufflé."

Larry Winget, The Pitbull of Personal Development, gives advice for living and working in today's world. Admittedly, some repetition occurs across this series of books, but they all provide lessons for growing as individuals and as business people. The first two, Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get a Life and It's Called Work for a Reason include more work related lessons on life.  The next two with the in-your-face titles, You're Broke Because You Want to Be and People Are Idiots and I Can Prove It! focus more on individual lessons. Yet those lessons can be applied to work as well.

Two lessons from Winget's Shut Up, Stop Whining & Get a Life book should be reminders for anyone working today.

"Three reasons you go to work every single day: 1) To keep existing customers, 2) To create new customers, and 3) To make yourself and your organization the kind that other people want to do business with."

"#1 Work/Business Lesson: Do what you say you are going to do, when you said you were going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it." 

Wouldn't it be a different world if all workers kept those lessons as their watchword every day?

In The Fred Factor, Mark Sanborn provides the lessons Fred the postman taught him about "going the extra mile" and doing more than people expect without expecting more for yourself.

John C. Maxwell describes personal goal setting and accountability to one's self in Make Today Count. His steps guide you to making the most of your activities each day.

Have you heard of or seen on TV the Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, Washington? Not only do they throw large fish across the market successfully, they have great customer service, have low employee turnover and make selling fish fun. Fish! by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul and John Christensen teaches the lessons of a successful business that is both productive and profitable. 

In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller discusses that root causes behind work related issues frequently are different than they first seem.

Brian Tracy, one of the best-selling achievement authors today, talks about how to increase productivity and satisfaction in Change Your Thinking Change Your Life. 

Dr. Joe Vitale authored and co-authored several books that on the surface may sound like self-help, but in reality include lessons on increasing business. Hypnotic Writing talks about the strength of words and selling. Your Internet Cash Machine gives advice about how the internet can grow business. The Seven Lost Secrets of Success provides lessons from Bruce Barton, one of the greatest marketers of all time. Another book by Vitale, Attractor Factor, focuses more on personal growth advice that applies to the working environment too. 

The New Rules of Marketing & PR by David Meerman Scott outlines how you can increase your business using the internet and the latest communications vehicles.

Jack Canfield's The Success Principles, How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be could be considered a handbook on what you need to do to improve.

There are many books to add to this list, but for now, let's end with another classic, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. The book was first published in 1937, but the lessons he took twenty-five years to write are timeless.

Per Orison Swett Marden:

"Two parts of success:
Get-to-it-iveness
Stick-to-it-iveness"

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