10 Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read

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10 Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read
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• Regardless of age and experience, entrepreneurs
  endure a continuous learning process when
  establishing, launching and maintaining a
  business. The best way to continue enhancing your
  skills and knowledge as an entrepreneur is
  through picking up, and reading a book. Im a
  strong advocate of continuous improvement, and I
  believe that continuous improvement of your
  business starts with you.

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• Generally, entrepreneurs are people who like to
  innovate through using teachings from the past,
  and present to pave the way for the future. When
  carrying out research, the technology
  entrepreneurs have available is in abundance, but
  I still believe the old tried and tested methods
  stand the test of time. By simply picking up a
  book you can gain insight to some of the greatest
  minds and teachers from the past and present. It
  doesnt matter if you are on a budget or one of
  the richest young entrepreneurs, you can still
  gain access to some of these gems.

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• Where do you start when choosing a book? By
  carrying out a random search on Amazon or Google
  you will be inundated, and overwhelmed by all the
  suggestions. Separating and distinguishing
  between the weak, and the strong contenders can
  be overwhelming. Hopefully this article will do
  some of that work for you

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• From classics to new releases, here are 10 great
  books that I believe all entrepreneurs and those
  fascinated by startups should find the time to
  read.

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1. The Innovators Dilemma The Revolutionary
Book That Will Change The Way You Do Business by
Clayton M. Christenen, 1997

• This book from leading Harvard professor Clayton
  Christenen looks at how key technologies cause
  disruptive change, and propels their exploiters
  into the lead. Christensen takes the position
  that great companies can fail precisely because
  they do everything right.Large established
  companies cling to the status quo, whilst
  deliberating about innovation it is the
  entrepreneur who takes the initiative and forces
  through innovation. Without legacy systems and
  overbearing bureaucracy it is the entrepreneur
  who has the upper hand.

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2. The Lean Startup How Todays Entrepreneurs
Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically
Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, 2011.

• The book deals primarily with the strategy of
  building startups, and in particular, with those
  that require innovation to stake their claim in
  the modern entrepreneurial environmental. Eric
  highlights that validated learning as opposed
  to failure is the most effective way of learning,
  and successfully launching a startup. He says, a
  failure to deliver results is due to either a
  failure to plan adequately or a failure to
  execute properly.

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2. The Lean Startup How Todays Entrepreneurs
Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically
Successful Businesses by Eric Ries, 2011.

• The book deals primarily with the strategy of
  building startups, and in particular, with those
  that require innovation to stake their claim in
  the modern entrepreneurial environmental. Eric
  highlights that validated learning as opposed
  to failure is the most effective way of learning,
  and successfully launching a startup. He says, a
  failure to deliver results is due to either a
  failure to plan adequately or a failure to
  execute properly.

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3. How to Win Friends and Influence People by
Dale Carnegie, 1936

• A classic book that has assisted people from all
  walks of life for over 80 years. The magic and
  success of this book is the easy to read material
  and the practical references such as, six ways to
  get people to like you, 12 ways to encourage
  others to buy into your thinking or nine ways to
  change peoples minds without any resentment.

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4. The Startup of You Adapt to the Future,
Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career by
Reid Hoffman, 2012

• Written by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and
  author Ben Casnocha. This book shows that being
  an entrepreneur isnt really about starting a
  business. Its a way of looking at the world
  seeing opportunity where others see obstacles,
  taking risks when others take refuge. Whatever
  career youre in or want to be in The Startup
  of You holds lessons for success.

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5. The 100 Startup Reinvent the Way You Make a
Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau, 2012

• In The 100 Startup, Chris Guillebeau (author of
  The Art of Non-Conformity) accomplishes something
  unique. Instead of discussing how to grow, scale,
  leverage, and sell a new business, which is
  typical of much of the entrepreneurship
  literature out there. He focuses entirely on
  microbusinesses tiny, one- or two-person
  operations that maximize freedom and generate
  roughly 50,000 per year.
• Much of Chris advice will benefit solo creatives
  who rely upon strong online presences, as Chris
  himself makes a living from writing, blogging,
  and selling digital guides.

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6. Business Model Generation by Alexander
Osterwalder, 2010

• Freethinking entrepreneurs and visionaries swear
  by this book. As business structures and
  practices change, it makes sense that business
  models also evolve. This book disrupts the
  traditional thought patterns that get in the way
  of fresh thinking. Most importantly, the book
  practices what it preaches.

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7. The Practice Of Management by Peter Drucker,
2006

• The late Peter F. Drucker is the most
  influential management thinker of the 20th
  Century. This book was first published in 1955,
  and is often credited with single-handedly
  creating and popularising the idea that
  management was something that could be studied,
  measured, and improved. Not fads can be found in
  this book, just solid and detailed reference on
  the problems and challenges of management and the
  practice of management.

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8. Stress Test Reflections on Financial Crises
by Timothy F. Geithner, 2014

• Sensational . . . Tims book will forever be the
  definitive work on what causes financial panics
  and what must be done to stem them when they
  occur. Warren Buffett

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9. Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter
Drucker, 2006

• Drucker was one of the top management thinkers
  of his generation. In this book he provides a
  detailed analysis of the sources of innovation
  and strategies for the implementation of
  innovation-based changes. He uses real examples
  to demonstrate how systematic innovation can be
  applied to business, government, politics,
  non-profit and service organizations.?His
  analysis is thorough, well structured and easy to
  understand. He finishes with an interesting
  discussion on why innovation is so necessary
  today. All of this is backed-up with examples of
  areas of society that are still operating on
  dated assumptions, and he offers some insightful
  innovations.

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10. Cold Calling Techniques (That Really Work) by
Stephen Schiffman, 2014

• This book goes back to basics. Forget social
  media, and new technology. As an entrepreneur, at
  some point you are going to have to pick up the
  phone, or meet someone face-to-face to convince
  them to support your idea in some capacity. The
  real gold is in the simple approach. The book
  cuts through tons of theory, and tells you what
  works.

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