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Steven Schussler’s It’s A Jungle In There
Serial entrepreneur Steven Schussler's new book, "It's a Jungle in There: Inspiring Lessons, Hard-Won Insights, and Other Acts of Entrepreneurial Daring", is an interesting recollection of his entrepreneurial journey over the years.
[Review] Startup From The Ground Up
Startup founder and consultant Cynthia Kocialski shares hard-earned knowledge in her new book Startup from the Ground Up, which provides many practical insights for entrepreneurs to bring their ideas to fruition into a thriving business.
6 Parts Of Your Company That Should Be Listening To Social Conversations
Businesses need to pay attention to discussions online via social media listening. Authors of The Now Revolution Jay Baer and Amber Nashlund outline six areas of your business that should be listening.
60 Great Books To Spur Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
The selection of books on business seems limitless, but entrepreneurs can pay special attention to those that offer a spark of entrepreneurial spirit. Inspiration, innovation, management, leadership, and more are all addressed in these books.
[Review] Startup: The Complete Handbook for Launching a Company for Less
If you're starting on your entrepreneurial journey, here's one book you must definitely consider: Elizabeth Edwards' Startup: The Complete Handbook for Launching a Company for Less is an excellent resource and step-by-step guide for the aspiring and budding entrepreneur.
[Review] 6 Secrets To Startup Success
In "6 Secrets to Startup Success", author John Bradberry explores the reasons why there's such a massive gap between the high levels of desire of entrepreneurship to what entrepreneurs actually achieve, and looks at lessons on how to improve their chances of success.
[Review] Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?
"You are not a faceless cog in the machinery of capitalism..." In fact, according to Seth Godin's latest book Linchpin, you are an "artist who can give good gifts".
[Review] Freelancer’s Guide To Finding Clients
Freelance writer, graphic designer and photographer Martha Retallick shares her own system and ways of sourcing for clients in her e-book "Freelancer's Guide to Finding Clients".
[Review] Futuretainment: Yesterday the World Changed, Now It’s Your Turn
Futuretainment packs a good dose of wisdom in the form of 23 insights on how social media and technologies change the way entertainment is consumed.
[Review] Citizen Marketers: When People Are The Message
Admittedly, the social media universe have changed since Citizen Marketers was published in 2007. However, some of its principles are still enduring.
[Review] 30-Minute Social Media Marketing
You can manage your social media marketing in all of 30 minutes, posits Susan Gunelius in her book 30-Minute Social Media Marketing.
[Review] The Mom’s Guide To Running A Business
Country Living's "The Mom's Guide to Running a Business", written by Michelle Lee Riberio, looks at the remarkable stories of 28 enterprising 'mompreneurs' who juggle family commitments while running their own businesses.
[Review] Social Nation
How does one leverage on the power of social communities? What does it mean to build a "Social Nation"? Seasoned marketer Walter Lim found out the answers to these and more after reading Barry Libert's breezy volume "Social Nation".
[Review] Killing Giants
In the book "Killing Giants: 10 Strategies to Topple the Goliath in Your Industry", marketing strategist and author Stephen Denny offers ten strategies on how small, nimble companies can outsmart, out-innovate and outfight the larger competitors in their industry.
[Review] Small Message, Big Impact
How can you communicate convincingly with your message in a short amount of time? In the book "Small Message, Big Impact", author Terri L. Sjodin shares how to work your presentations effectively and efficiently.
[Review] How To Speak American
"How to Speak American" is really a part-sociology, part-marketing book about addressing the need for brand marketers to embrace the largely ignored - in the marketing scheme of things - "New Heartland" of the United States.
[Review] Enterprise Social Technology
Enterprise Social Technology offers an actionable 12-step process for those who intend to harness social technologies for business and enterprise use, and one that is interestingly crowdsourced in its making.
[Review] Knock ‘Em Dead: Secrets & Strategies For Success In An Uncertain World
"Knock 'em Dead - Secrets and Strategies for Success in an Uncertain World" by international best selling author and acclaimed thought leader on career issues Martin Yate is one of the better self-help books out there to help you land a perfect job and plan your career success.
[Review] The Benevolent Dictator
To successfully launch and lead a successful startup, there needs to be a benevolent dictator, asserts Michael Feuer, author of The Benevolent Dictator: Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition".
[Review] One Simple Idea
Inventor and entrepreneur Stephen Key shares his blueprint of how you can look for ways to turn your creativity into profit in new book "One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work".
[Review] Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
"Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul", written by its CEO Howard Schultz, a wonderful story about the origins of the company, its ensuing growth and its drive towards constant reinvention, and also a cautionary tale for companies who run the dangers of pandering to Wall Street, instead of keeping the company focused on real, sustainable growth.
[Review] Guide To Getting Paid
If collecting credit is a problem that is plaguing your small business, then "The Guide to Getting Paid: Weed Out Bad Paying Customers, Collect on Past Due Balances, and Avoid Bad Debt" by Michelle Dunn is the book for you.
[Review] Entrepreneurial DNA
"Entrepreneurial DNA: The Breakthrough Discovery that Aligns Your Business to Your Unique Strengths" by serial entrepreneur and author Joe Abraham helps you identify what kind of entrepreneur you are so that you can optimize and leverage your business approach, processes and relationships for maximum success.
20 Biographies Every Serious Entrepreneur Should Read
Whether they’re rising from poverty, picking up the pieces and trucking on after multiple failures or ditching the familiar 9-5, these entrepreneurs have not only stories, but lessons to share.
[Review] The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook
Whether you are an established or aspiring entrepreneur with the desire to promote positive change, "The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook" is for you.
[Review] Everything We Know Is Wrong: The Trendspotter’s Handbook
Furturist Magnus Lindkvist shows us how to be a successful, observant trendspotter in his recent book, "Everything We Know is Wrong!: The Trendspotter's Handbook".
[Review] The Superwoman Lifestyle Blueprint
In her new book, “The Superwoman Lifestyle Blueprint”, entrepreneur and business coach Vicki Irvin inks a blueprint that breaks down the steps you can follow to achieve career or business success while holding on to the other important things in life.
[Review] Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People
Brian Tracy's book "Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People" is really about fully engaging people - your employees, for example - so as to maximize their potential and work effectiveness.
[Review] Unusually Excellent
Are you an unusually excellent leader? Leadership expert John Hamm's book, "Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership" delves deep into the key aspects that defines a great leader and sets a framework for helping you apply these fundamentals of leadership.
[Review] The Entrepreneur Equation: Evaluating the Realities, Risks, and Rewards of Having Your Own...
"The Entrepreneur Equation" by Carol Roth is a hard book to read, but only because it poses the aspiring entrepreneur the most difficult questions that need answering.