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Books That Changed How I Think
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items Books are among the best investments if you are serious about personal and professional growth. Here are some that have changed my life. They range from career to entrepreneurial, personal branding, growth mindset, leadership, job search, and parenti...
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Career Books
Entrepreneurial Books
Personal Branding Books
Growth Mindset Books
Job Search Books
Parenting Books
Career Books
These growth mindset books provide guidance and resources for navigating the various stages of your professional life.
Here are the top 10 career books that can transform your professional trajectory.
Top 10 career books for professional growth
This book is a perennial favorite. It’s been helping job seekers for over five decades.
What Color Is Your Parachute? Career Guide
This book is essential for anyone actively job searching or preparing for a career transition.
The 2-Hour Job Search, 2nd Edition
Entrepreneurial Books
These entrepreneurial books offer guidance and inspiration if you want to start, manage, and grow your business.
Do you have an email list? You can start printing cash with new product launches if you do.
Launch: How to Sell Online & Build a Business
One of my favorite books of all time. This is a must read. Dale Carnegie has time-tested advice that you must learn about.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
It's important to start something with purpose before action. Understand the "why" behind your business.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire
Why do certain companies make the leap from good results to great results? This book will help you answer this question.
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap
Learn about Steve Jobs and how he built Apple, one of the most successful companies of all time. This book is the inspiration for the movie of the same name.
Steve Jobs
What makes high-achievers different? This book will help you with business decision making.
Outliers: The Story of Success
This book explains the tipping point phenomenon and how you think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Matter
What are the secrets behind truly exceptional companies? How are they built to last? This book answers these questions and much more.
Built to Last: Habits of Visionary Companies
The author provides his marketing wisdom in one place. This is a must-read if you are a marketer and/or entrepreneur.
This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen
If you want to take your business to the next level, this is the book for you.
The Ultimate Sales Machine: 12 Key Strategies
Every business wants double digit growth. The author says that growing your company 10%+ can happen without cheating.
Double-Digit Growth: How Great Companies Achieve It
What's the secret to sales success? The best salespeople challenge their customers. This book explores this question.
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control
Personal Branding Books
These personal branding books guide you in developing and promoting your unique professional identity, using digital platforms to establish your expertise and influence.
Here are 10 of the best personal branding books. They will help you start building a strong and memorable personal brand.
10 personal branding books to elevate your career
In this book, you’ll discover why some ideas thrive. You’ll understand why other ideas die on the vine.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive
In this book, you’ll discover that a personal brand is more than just a business card and a resume. Learn how to expand your personal brand through social media.
Personal Branding For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Growth Mindset Books
These growth mindset books believe that abilities and intelligence can be developed through dedication, hard work, and learning from failure (growth mindset), rather than believing in fixed traits (fixed mindset).
These growth mindset books have guided millions of readers toward more fulfilling and successful lives.
10 essential growth mindset books for personal development
The book provides actionable strategies for building systems that support long-term growth and development.
Atomic Habits: Easy Way to Build & Break Habits
The book provides timeless personal and professional development principles that align perfectly with the growth mindset philosophy.
7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Ed
This book talks about the power of connectivity over content. It's all about making strategic choices.
The Content Trap: Guide to Digital Change
Job Search Books
These job search books offer guidance on various aspects of finding employment, from creating must-read resumes and compelling cover letters to acing job interviews.
From the same author of 2-Hour Job Search, learn how to simplify the process of finding work.
The Job Closer: Techniques for Resumes & Interviews
How do you sell yourself without turning off those you're trying to impress? This book helps you answer this question.
Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn
This book your study guide for how to ace any job interview (not just at Amazon).
Cracking the Amazon Interview: Step-by-Step Guide
Parenting Books
Parenting books offer guidance, strategies, and support for how to best raise your children.
This book is the gold standard for how to best discipline your kids.
Positive Discipline: Guide to Child Development
If you love Postive Discipline book, here's your A to Z library for raising kids who are responsible, respectful, and resourceful.
Positive Discipline A-Z: 1001 Parenting Solutions
The title says it all. This is the "parenting bible” on how to effectively communicate with your children.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Talk
Learn how to get your kids to do the right things without yelling, threatening or using force. Hint: connect then correct.
Connect To Correct: Create Boundaries Without Yelling
Leadership Books
These leadership books offer guidance, new perspectives, and inspiration on how to develop your leadership skills and understand effective leadership principles.
This book illustrates the 8 step process of change. It is an easy-to-read story about penguins. They realize their iceberg is melting, and go about making necessary changes to improve the situation.
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing & Succeeding
What fuels long-term business success? Hint: Management innovation. This book dives into this question on how to best manage people.
The Future of Management
What factors cause a person to say “yes” to a request? This book explores this question and the psychological principles behind human behavior.
Influence: Science and Practice