I grew up on Long Island and lived and worked in Manhattan for many years. When the weather started to turn warm, most news media published a “Summer Reading List”. I now live in Southeast Florida where the winters are much more appealing to me. So I am offering my “Winter Reading List of Classic Business Tomes” which has been compiled from suggestions from smart business advisors including my colleagues at Vistage.
I hope that you may find something here that will get your juices going to help you grow your businesses. Several members of my Vistage CEO group have recently read Napoleon Hill’s book Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success, which was written in 1938. I just ordered it myself. It is next on my list.
BOOKS TO INSPIRE PEOPLE
Offered by Vistage Chairs
Hard Optimism – Price Pritchett
Full Throttle – 122 Strategies to Supercharge Your Performance at Work – Gregg Steinberg
Managing Thought – Mary Lore
Leap of Strength – Walt Sutton
What Happy People Know – Dan Baker
MoJo – Marshall Goldsmith
Play to win. Larry Wilson
Making the Impossible Possible – by Bill Strickland
Favorite Books to Enhance Strategic Thinking
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne |
Good to Great by Jim Collins. |
A book that I have found to great blend of strategy and execution for the small-medium-sized business owner called Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. |
Discipline of Market Leaders by Michael Treacy |
Top Management Strategy: What it is and how to make it work by Benjamin Tregoe and John Zimmerman |
Hands-On Strategy by William Finnie. |
Chart your own Course by Caryn Spain, Vistage Speaker |
The Breakthrough Company” by Keith R. McFarland. Targets Vistage size companies |
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell |
Traction by Gino Wickman |