Top 5 Christmas Gifts for Entrepreneurs
Published:Do you know a start up junkie? Here are the best entrepreneur books to fuel their business adventures! Business books make a perfect Christmas gift for entrepreneurs!
1) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- David Allen’s Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era
- Ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional & personal tasks, & has spawned an entire culture of websites, organizational tools, seminars, & offshoots
- Helps Entrepreneurs take control & get more value from their time
- "The Bible of business and personal productivity" — Lifehack
- #1 Best Seller in Time Management
2) The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
- Dispels the myths surrounding starting your own business and shows how commonplace assumptions can get in the way of running a business
- 66% of small businesses fail, and it isn't for the reasons you think. Why do they fail?
- Walks you through the steps in the life of a business from entrepreneurial infancy, through adolescent growing pains, to the mature entrepreneurial perspective
- Shows how to apply the lessons of franchising to any business whether or not it is a franchise.
- Finally, the book draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business & working in your business.
3) The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
- The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched
- The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively
- Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want
- Enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute
- Provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever
4) Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
- Has been called the "Granddaddy of All Motivational Literature"
- This is the updated version of the 1937 classic, written for modern readers
- Deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth
- Boldly asks, "What makes a winner?"
- And then answers it.
5) How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
- Creator of the Dilbert comic strip
- Uses his own life to illustrate his thesis that failure isn’t necessarily a bad thing
- Adams’ own list of failures is—surprisingly lengthy: a couple of unsuccessful restaurants as well as computer games, inventions, and online businesses that all tanked
- Key element of his philosophy—you learn by trying, not by succeeding
- The book does a great job blending humor with serious advice
