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105 books in this section — 52 with a full summary so far

001#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness— Gary Vaynerchuk
#AskGaryVee grew out of Gary Vaynerchuk's weekly video Q&A show of the same name, in which he answered rapid-fire questions from entrepreneurs, marketers, and fans. The book takes the format of that show and organizes hundreds of the sharpest answers into thematic sections,…
003100 Great Business Ideas: From Leading Companies Around the World— Jeremy Kourdi
100 Great Business Ideas is a reference-style compendium rather than a single argument developed across chapters. Business writer and consultant Jeremy Kourdi, formerly a senior vice-president at The Economist Group, collects one hundred discrete ideas drawn from real companies…
006201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business (3rd Edition)— Jane Applegate (Bloomberg Press)
201 Great Ideas for Your Small Business, now in its third edition from Bloomberg Press, is a practical reference guide by longtime small-business journalist and consultant Jane Applegate. Like Jeremy Kourdi's similarly structured 100 Great Business Ideas, the book presents its…
019All for One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships— Andrew Sobel
All for One is Andrew Sobel's guide to a specific, high-value business problem: how professional service firms and individual advisors move beyond being a useful "steady supplier" to becoming a "Level 6 Trusted Client Partner" — a category of relationship broad, deep, and…
021Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur— Derek Sivers
Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' short, first-person account of founding and running CD Baby, the online music store he built almost by accident after musician friends asked him to help them sell CDs online — and which grew into the largest seller of independent music before…
377Atomic Habits— James Clear
Atomic Habits argues that meaningful life change rarely comes from one dramatic overhaul — it comes from small, consistent adjustments that compound over time, the same way money grows through compound interest. Clear's central claim is that habits are the atomic units of…
037Bí Quyết Gây Dựng Cơ Nghiệp Bạc Tỷ— Adam Khoo
Bí Quyết Gây Dựng Cơ Nghiệp Bạc Tỷ is the Vietnamese edition of a business-building book by Singaporean entrepreneur and educator Adam Khoo, framed as the second half of a two-book set alongside his earlier Bí Quyết Tay Trắng Thành Triệu Phú (roughly, "The Secret to Becoming a…
052Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too— Gary Vaynerchuk
*, revisiting its central thesis roughly a decade later with updated platform guidance and dozens of real success stories from people who built businesses or brands using the original book's advice. The core argument hasn't changed: anyone, in any niche or industry, can build a…
058Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger— Janet Lowe
" is Janet Lowe's biography of Charles T. Munger, the famously blunt vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett's longtime intellectual partner. Written with Munger's reluctant but eventually substantial cooperation, the book traces his life from a comfortable but…
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose— Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh's book is part memoir and part business philosophy, tracing his path from a childhood obsessed with side-hustles, through selling LinkExchange to Microsoft for $265 million while feeling personally empty, to co-founding and running Zappos into a billion-dollar…
064Digitally Transforming the Mortgage Banking Industry: The Maverick's Quest for Outstanding Profit and Customer Satisfaction— James M. Deitch, CPA, CMB
This book is James M. Deitch's account of what separates the most successful, "maverick" mortgage banking CEOs from the rest of the industry, based on interviews Deitch conducted with roughly fifty mortgage-industry CEOs, twenty-five of whom he identified as standout performers…
068Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us— Daniel H. Pink
"Drive" argues that the traditional carrot-and-stick model of motivation — rewarding desired behavior and punishing undesired behavior — is not just outdated but actively counterproductive for the kind of creative, complex, judgment-based work that increasingly dominates modern…
081Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used— Peter Block
*Flawless Consulting* addresses a specific, often underexamined problem: technical expertise alone doesn't guarantee that a consultant's advice actually gets used by a client organization, and Peter Block argues the real determinant of consulting effectiveness is the quality of…
085Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People— Brian Tracy
Full Engagement! is Brian Tracy's guide for managers on how to move employees from passive compliance to genuinely engaged, high-performing effort. Its core premise, laid out in the introduction, is that how a manager treats people emotionally — the trust, respect, and clarity…
086Get a Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable— Gino Wickman & Mike Paton
Get a Grip is a business fable written to make Gino Wickman's Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) — first introduced in his earlier book Traction — concrete and emotionally real by walking through a single fictional company's year-long implementation of it. The story follows…
088Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations— William Ury
Getting Past No is William Ury's answer to the question he says he was asked more than any other after co-writing Getting to Yes: what do you do when the other side simply won't cooperate? Where the earlier book focused on principled negotiation between reasonably willing…
089Getting Started in Consulting— Alan Weiss
Getting Started in Consulting is Alan Weiss's practical, step-by-step guide for anyone leaving employment to build an independent consulting practice, built around a central promise: that low overhead combined with genuine organizational discipline can produce a six- or even…
097Golf: Những Bí Mật Về Môn Thể Thao Quý Tộc (Golf: Secrets of the Noble Sport)— Bùi Xuân Phong
"Golf: Những Bí Mật Về Môn Thể Thao Quý Tộc" (subtitled, per its publisher, "Từ Clubhouse Đến Hố 18" — "From the Clubhouse to the 18th Hole") is a Vietnamese-language book by author Bùi Xuân Phong focused on the business and operational side of the golf industry, rather than…
104Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want— Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni
"Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go" tackles a specific, practical management problem: career development is consistently shown to be one of the most powerful levers for employee engagement and retention, yet most managers avoid it because they believe it requires large blocks of…
108How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits— Judy Robinett
Judy Robinett wrote *How to Be a Power Connector* after decades spent moving between Silicon Valley boardrooms, venture capital circles, and small-town Idaho roots, and the book is built around a single conviction: your net worth is a function of your network, and most people…
124It Starts with Clients: Your 100-Day Plan for Building Relationships That Last a Lifetime— Andrew Sobel
Andrew Sobel has spent decades studying what separates professionals who build decades-long, deeply trusted client relationships from those who win one-off projects and then have to start the sales cycle over from zero. It Starts with Clients distills that research into a…
126Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone— Mark Goulston
Mark Goulston is a psychiatrist with a background working with police hostage negotiation training, and Just Listen applies techniques originally developed for defusing extremely high-stakes, resistant conversations to the much more ordinary problem of getting through to people…
132Kinh Nghiệm Thành Công Của Ông Chủ Nhỏ— Lão Mạc (translated by Tuệ Văn)
Kinh Nghiệm Thành Công Của Ông Chủ Nhỏ is a Chinese business book, translated into Vietnamese, built around a large collection of short real-world vignettes about small and micro business owners — street vendors, shopkeepers, and modest local operators — rather than around a…
141Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't— Simon Sinek
S. Marine Corps — that officers eat only after every enlisted person has been served — and builds an argument that this kind of visible, costly sacrifice from leadership is what creates a "Circle of Safety," an organizational culture where people feel genuinely protected from…
142Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask— Michael J. Marquardt
Michael Marquardt's central claim is disarmingly simple: the leaders who get the best results are not the ones with the best answers, but the ones who ask the best questions. Drawing on decades of research into "action learning" and on interviews with dozens of executives across…
143Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration— Keith Ferrazzi (with Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich)
Keith Ferrazzi's core argument in Leading Without Authority is that the traditional org chart — where influence flows from title and position — is increasingly useless for solving the problems modern teams actually face. Cross-functional projects, remote and hybrid work, and…
145Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won't Teach You at Business School— Richard Branson
Like a Virgin is Richard Branson's attempt to distill four decades of building the Virgin Group — from a mail-order record business to an empire spanning music, airlines, mobile phones, health clubs, and space travel — into short, punchy lessons that deliberately don't read like…
151Managing a Small Business in Australia: The Complete Handbook— John W. English and Babette Moate
Managing a Small Business in Australia is a practical, reference-style handbook by John English and Babette Moate aimed at Australian small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, structured around the full lifecycle of building and running a business — from initial decision…
159Million Dollar Consulting: The Professional's Guide to Growing a Practice— Alan Weiss
*Million Dollar Consulting* is Alan Weiss's foundational guide for independent consultants who want to build a serious, high-earning practice rather than trade hours for modest fees as a solo operator. The book's central argument is that most consultants underprice and…
164Multiply Your Business: New Marketing Realities to Catapult Your Income— Gerry Robert
*Multiply Your Business* is Gerry Robert's marketing-focused follow-up to his earlier bestseller *The Millionaire Mindset*, aimed at small-business owners and entrepreneurs whose core expertise lies outside marketing but who need practical, low-cost strategies to attract…
169Never Eat Alone— Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz
Never Eat Alone makes a blunt claim: career and business outcomes are driven far more by the depth and generosity of a person's relationships than by raw talent, credentials, or hard work in isolation. Ferrazzi's target is the common failure mode where networking gets treated as…
170Never Split the Difference— Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
Never Split the Difference distills Chris Voss's career as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator into a direct challenge to how most people think negotiation works. Voss argues that the conventional wisdom - built on rational compromise, 'win-win' frameworks, and…
200Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others— Andrew Sobel & Jerold Panas
Power Questions is built around a simple but demanding premise: that the quality of a professional relationship — with a client, a prospective business partner, a donor, or a colleague — is shaped less by what you tell people than by what you ask them. Andrew Sobel, a consultant…
204Publish a Book & Grow Rich— Gerry Robert
Gerry Robert's *Publish a Book & Grow Rich* makes a single, sustained argument: that writing and publishing a book is one of the most effective, underused business tools available to entrepreneurs, coaches, consultants, and professionals — not primarily as a source of royalty…
205QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life— John G. Miller
*QBQ! ") with a better question — the Question Behind the Question — that starts with "What" or "How," is framed in the first person singular ("I"), and focuses on action the individual can personally take right now. John G…
207Quản Lý Nghiệp (Karmic Management: What Goes Around Comes Around in Your Business and Your Life)— Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally, and Michael Gordon
*Karmic Management* (published in Vietnamese as *Quản Lý Nghiệp*) is the sequel to Geshe Michael Roach's bestselling business-Buddhism book *The Diamond Cutter*, co-written with Lama Christie McNally and Michael Gordon, the founder of the hair-care company Bumble and bumble.…
033Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job— Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter
Before You Quit Your Job is Robert Kiyosaki's attempt to warn aspiring entrepreneurs about what actually happens after they hand in their resignation. Rather than a cheerleading pitch for self-employment, the book is built around ten hard lessons drawn from Kiyosaki's own…
218RISE— Mark Bouris
RISE is Mark Bouris's more personal, biographically grounded follow-up to his earlier business advice books, written and published during a period of major global disruption (the early COVID-19 pandemic era) as both a memoir of his own path from a working-class upbringing in…
225Siêu Cò (Vietnamese edition of *How to Be a Power Connector: The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits*)— Judy Robinett
Judy Robinett's core claim is disarmingly simple: in business, who you know outweighs how smart or skilled you are, and the ability to build a strategic network is a learnable craft rather than an inborn gift. Drawing on her decades as a corporate executive, startup CEO, and…
228Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big— Bo Burlingham
Bo Burlingham, a longtime Inc. magazine editor, opens *Small Giants* with a simple but pointed observation: business culture treats growth as an unquestioned good, and a company that isn't scaling is assumed to be failing or timid. Burlingham set out to find companies that had…
231Start With Why— Simon Sinek
Start With Why argues that the most influential leaders and organizations — from Apple to Martin Luther King Jr. to the Wright Brothers — communicate and operate in a specific, counterintuitive order: they start with why (the underlying purpose or belief driving them), move to…
232Start Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them— Garrett Sutton, Esq.
Garrett Sutton, a corporate attorney and one of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad Advisors," wrote this book to answer a question he says he hears constantly from clients: why does forming a corporate or LLC entity matter so much, and how does someone actually go about doing it? His…
235Straight from the CEO: The World's Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas That Every Manager Can Use— Edited by G. William Dauphinais and Colin Price
*Straight from the CEO* is a 1998 compilation edited by G. William Dauphinais and Colin Price, both then affiliated with the consulting firm Price Waterhouse (later PricewaterhouseCoopers), gathering firsthand perspectives from roughly three dozen chief executives of major…
249The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People— Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People argues that lasting effectiveness in work and life is built from the inside out: genuine character — integrity, humility, fairness, courage — rather than the surface-level "personality ethic" of quick-fix techniques, charm, and image…
276The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It— Michael E. Gerber
Michael Gerber's central claim in The E-Myth Revisited is that the entrepreneurial legend most people believe in — the risk-taking visionary who spots an opportunity and builds a business around it — is largely a myth, and that believing it is the single biggest reason small…
279The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers— Ben Horowitz
The Hard Thing About Hard Things grew out of Ben Horowitz's popular "Ben's Blog," and its core argument is that nearly all business writing addresses the easy things — how to write a product spec, how to run a board meeting — while almost none of it addresses the hard things:…
280The Infinite Game— Simon Sinek
The Infinite Game borrows a distinction from game theorist James P. Carse — finite games have known players, fixed rules, and an endpoint where someone wins; infinite games have known and unknown players, rules that evolve, and no fixed endpoint, so the only real objective is to…
285The Lean Startup— Eric Ries
The Lean Startup opens with a provocation: most startups fail not because their teams lack discipline, but because they apply rigorous discipline to the wrong thing. ' Traditional management tools, built for organizations executing a known plan against a knowable market,…
332Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business— Gino Wickman
Traction is Gino Wickman's manual for the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a complete set of simple tools meant to solve the same five recurring frustrations he saw in hundreds of small and mid-sized businesses: lack of control, people problems, profit problems, nothing…
339Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell— Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
Trillion Dollar Coach is a collective portrait of Bill Campbell, the former college football coach turned Silicon Valley executive who became the confidential coach and mentor to Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, and dozens of other top technology leaders,…
255Trump: The Art of the Deal— Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz
Trump: The Art of the Deal is part memoir and part business-advice book, built around Donald Trump's account of the real estate deals that built his reputation in New York and Atlantic City through the mid-1980s. It opens with a chapter following a single week of Trump's…
376Zero to One— Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
Zero to One argues that real progress comes in two fundamentally different forms: horizontal progress (globalization — taking something that already works and copying it everywhere, going from 1 to n) and vertical progress (technology — doing something genuinely new that didn't…

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