Books for Business

Below is a list of my favorite business and leadership books.

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Leadership

The Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Virtues: A Leadership Fable

Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you're a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team:

A Leadership Fable

In keeping with the parable style, Patrick Lencioni begins by telling the fable of a woman who, as CEO of a struggling Silicon Valley firm, took control of a dysfunctional executive committee and helped its members succeed as a team. Story time over, Lencioni offers explicit instructions for overcoming the human behavioral tendencies that he says corrupt teams (absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results).

Dare to Lead: Brave Work.

Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, Brené Brown shows us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and has the courage to develop that potential. When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it's necessary to do good work.

Leadershift: The 11 Essential Changes

Every Leader Must Embrace

Change happens so rapidly today that leaders must be nimble and ready to adapt. Otherwise, they won't survive. International leadership expert John Maxwell says, the key is to learn how to “leadershift.”In
Leadershift, John C. Maxwell helps listeners make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. He does this by sharing the 11 shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Each shift changed his trajectory and set him up for new and exciting achievements, strengthening and sustaining his leadership abilities and making him the admired leadership expert he is today.

For Anyone In Business

Business Growth Journal: A journal for ambitious women who want more money, time, and freedom in their business.

If you've ever felt stuck or unsure about how to turn your business dreams into reality, then this journal is tailor-made just for you! Get ready for an incredible journey of growth, clarity, and focus.Are you filled with passion and big ideas yet face obstacles that make you doubt yourself? This journal is here to empower you like never before. It's time to break free from limitations, overcome challenges, and embrace the incredible potential within you and your business.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their businesses. This revolutionary method for connecting with customers provides listeners with the ultimate competitive advantage, revealing the secret for helping their customers understand the compelling benefits of using their products, ideas, or services. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching listeners the seven universal story points all humans respond to, the real reason customers make purchases, how to simplify a brand message so people understand it, and how to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media.

For Mompreneurs

(Business, Life, and Motherhood)

Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to

Growing an Intentional Life

Author, business owner, and mom to three Lara Casey offers this grace-filled advice: we can't do it all and do it well, but we can choose to cultivate what matters. Written as part encouragement anthem and part practical guide, Cultivate offers wisdom from God's Word alongside lessons Lara has learned in her own life—and in her garden—giving you the tools you need to: Discern what matters most to you. Embrace the season of life that you're in. Find the joy and freedom that comes with cultivating what matters Let Lara be your guide as you learn to cultivate what matters, little by little, with the help of God's transforming grace.

Girl, Stop Apologizing (Audible Exclusive Edition): A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

In this book, Rachel Hollis helps you to: identify the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, And the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself. Hollis shares stories and principles with raw honesty that inspires her audiences to discover and take the practical steps that will put them on a lifelong path of personal growth. Girl, Stop Apologizing is the life-changing guide you need to dump your excuses, embrace your dreams, set boundaries, and gain real confidence in life.

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