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The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business
Ken Blanchard, Don Hutson, ...
Doubleday Business, 2008
I trust the authors and I love the message!
+ John
+ Great work.....AGAIN!!!
"One-Minute" has become a learning model that the world loves. Two reasons for this are: the story format makes you part of the lesson and the distilled wisdom in each lesson is both profound and simple.
I've known Ken Blanchard and Don Hutson for over 20 years. We've worked together, ...
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The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch
Doubleday Business, 1999
Great Book top 20% of books I've ever read.
+ A Solid Principle and a Solid Explanation
+ Change the way you look at your life!!!!
+ THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE IS 90% ACCURATE
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Six Disciplines for Excellence: Building Small Businesses That Learn, Lead and Last
Gary Harpst
Synergy Books, 2007
Excellent Book, Buy it!
+ LIFE CHANGING! .. no exaggeration
+ Straight to the point, well-organized, and extremely practical.
+ Good Insight, Quick/Easy Read
+ Excellent
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Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done
William A. Malek, Mark Morgan, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Perils and opportunities in the six domains of the strategic execution network
+ Connects Strategy with Project Management
In this volume, Mark Morgan, Raymond Levitt, and William Malek focus their attention on "engaging in strategic project portfolio management for successful execution" and more specifically on the six domains of the strategic execution network, their acronym INVEST: Ideation (clarify and communicate ...
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Business Plus, 2000
Rich in other ways too!
+ Tip Of The Iceberg
+ APPLY THIS TO YOUR LIFE!
+ A gift for you and your kids!
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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big
Bo Burlingham
Portfolio Hardcover, 2005
Great Case Stuides for Building a Great Company
+ Defining Good Growth
+ Hybridizing Non-profit and For-profit Goals
Bo Burlingham has done a great job assembling a group of companies that shunned the normally accepted path of explosive growth in order to truly be great at what they do. The variety of companies and industries profiled are helpful for CEOs of any size firm in nearly any vertical to take nuggets ...
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
Crown, 2007
We did it!
+ Great Book, Well Worth Reading
+ SO EPIC. THIS BOOK IS CHANGING MY LIFE.
I started reading this book last October and was inspired by the mini-retirement aspect. Ironically, I was let go from my job during the time I was reading this. I discussed taking a mini retirement with my husband and convinced him we could go away for the summer and he could work while we were ...
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Winning
Jack Welch, Suzy Welch
Collins Business, 2005
Management teextbook
+ "Calling it like it is"
+ High on the "Stories from Utopia" bookshelf
+ Clarifying Business
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
HarperCollins, 1995
The foundation of forward thinking. It just makes sense!
+ great book for new business owners
+ Many New Customers (and Profits)
+ A story of my business!
+ A must read for every business owner or entrepreneur
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Strategy: Create and Implement the Best Strategy for Your Business
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Essential guide to implementing business strategy
+ Review
Too many businesses fail to make the connection between strategy and implementation. Having great ideas is terrific, but they won't do you much good if you can't execute them. Years ago, Sam Walton may have suspected that high volume and low prices would lead to extraordinary retail success, but he ...
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Jack: Straight from the Gut
Jack Welch, John A. Byrne
Business Plus, 2003
Straight from the guts
+ Corporate growth strategies
+ Straight From The Gut And Straight To The Point
+ A Passion for Excellence & Bringing Out the Best in People
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The McKinsey Way
Ethan M. Rasiel
McGraw-Hill, 1999
Phenomenal!
+ A great read for a targeted audience...
+ Inside view for on cosulting
I have to say, that as a businessman, this book is incredible! I have reread it four times, and I live by what is inside. If you are thinking of going into consulting, this book is a must-have, but if you are a manager in any capacity you need to have this book in your collection. You can apply ...
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Small Business For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))
Eric Tyson, Jim Schell
Wiley, 2008
A book for all entrepreneurs
+ Good, solid start to exploring the business owner's world
+ Excellent Resource!
+ Great Review
+ A very useful book to have
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Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, ...
St. Martin's Press, 2006
Great book
+ Applicable to Nonprofit organizations too
+ Wonderful Book on Change Management
+ Amusing & Enlightening
+ Anyone in Business Should Read this Book
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The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives
Wiley, 2006
Outstanding Book
+ Dense read, but very entertaining and comprehensive
+ Very good essays.
+ Very informative, intriguing business analysis
+ Great insight
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