One of the best pieces of advice I received in my early years as an accountant and before starting my own business, was to read regularly.<\/p>\n
In business, it can be said that no problem or challenge is truly original. Any problem you face as a business owner has likely been experienced by someone else. Learning from the experiences of others can help us to succeed.<\/p>\n
They can help us to become successful by providing the right knowledge, new ways of thinking and new insights. They can also help us to develop necessary skills – skills we all need as business owners to make us more creative, more efficient, more productive, and more profitable.<\/p>\n
Do you wonder if reading will actually help your business? Here is what some highly successful business owners have to say.<\/p>\n
One piece of advice Warren Buffett calls “the key to his success” is to go to bed a little smarter each day. Within a few years, it starts to yield results. “That’s how knowledge builds up. Like compound interest.” And the best way to start doing this is to read.<\/p>\n
Mark Cuban, billionaire businessman and Shark Tank investor, says:<\/p>\n
\u201cI read every book and magazine I could. Heck, three bucks for a magazine, twenty bucks for a book. One good idea would lead to a customer or a solution, and those magazines and books paid for themselves many times over. Some of the ideas I read were good, some not. In doing all the reading I learned a valuable lesson.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Bill Gates reads one book a week. \u201cReading is still the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is our list of top 10 recommended books for business owners:<\/span><\/h2>\n
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The E Myth Revisited Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It<\/a> \u2014 Michael Gerber<\/p>\n
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People 30th Anniversary Edition<\/a> \u2014 Stephen Covey<\/p>\n
Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity<\/a> \u2014 David Allen<\/p>\n
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals<\/a> \u2014 McChesney, Covey & Huling<\/p>\n
Scrum: A revolutionary approach to building teams, beating deadlines and boosting productivity<\/a> \u2014 Jeff Sutherland<\/p>\n
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable<\/a> \u2013 Patrick Lencioni<\/p>\n
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action<\/a> \u2013 Simon Sinek<\/p>\n
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, Second Edition (Paperback)<\/a> \u2013 Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzer<\/p>\n
Opportunity<\/a> – Eben Pagan<\/p>\n