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The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List
1.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
by:
Josh Kaufman
4.10 avg rating — 46,039 ratings
2.
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by:
William B. Irvine
4.19 avg rating — 26,604 ratings
3.
The Art of Exceptional Living
by:
Jim Rohn
4.28 avg rating — 3,459 ratings
4.
Lead the Field
by:
Earl Nightingale
4.04 avg rating — 4,677 ratings
5.
Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes
by:
Harry Browne
3.95 avg rating — 3,377 ratings
6.
I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
by:
Ramit Sethi
4.20 avg rating — 60,070 ratings
7.
The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by:
Thomas J. Stanley
4.05 avg rating — 130,130 ratings
8.
Your Money or Your Life
by:
Joe Dominguez
3.99 avg rating — 29,876 ratings
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The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
by:
Gerald M. Weinberg
3.95 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
10.
Getting Started in Consulting
by:
Alan Weiss
3.91 avg rating — 2,500 ratings
11.
Universal Principles of Design
by:
William Lidwell
4.16 avg rating — 5,855 ratings
12.
The Design of Everyday Things
by:
Donald A. Norman
4.15 avg rating — 46,466 ratings
13.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by:
Peter F. Drucker
4.08 avg rating — 10,937 ratings
14.
The Myths of Innovation
by:
Scott Berkun
3.85 avg rating — 4,603 ratings
15.
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
by:
Twyla Tharp
4.08 avg rating — 40,111 ratings
16.
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
by:
W. Chan Kim
4.01 avg rating — 84,946 ratings
17.
Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
by:
Clayton M. Christensen
3.94 avg rating — 5,094 ratings
18.
Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
by:
Michael E. Porter
4.17 avg rating — 16,878 ratings
19.
Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies: The Starting Point of Great Companies
by:
Nikos Mourkogiannis
4.01 avg rating — 4,327 ratings
20.
Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams
by:
Lou Adler
3.99 avg rating — 612 ratings
21.
The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways To Do Less And Accomplish More
by:
William D Jensen
3.94 avg rating — 4,777 ratings
22.
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
by:
Peter F. Drucker
4.08 avg rating — 37,231 ratings
23.
The Unwritten Laws of Business
by:
W.J. King
3.99 avg rating — 5,122 ratings
24.
The Economist Numbers Guide 6th Edition: The Essentials of Business Numeracy
by:
The Economist
4.06 avg rating — 815 ratings
25.
How to Lie with Statistics
by:
Darrell Huff
3.84 avg rating — 17,590 ratings
26.
Marketing Metrics: 50+ Metrics Every Executive Should Master
by:
Neil T. Bendle
4.01 avg rating — 1,652 ratings
27.
Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving
by:
Jonathan G. Koomey
3.87 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
28.
Thinking Statistically
by:
Uri Bram
3.86 avg rating — 940 ratings
29.
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
by:
Sam Carpenter
3.87 avg rating — 6,299 ratings
30.
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
by:
Donella H. Meadows
4.19 avg rating — 20,776 ratings
31.
Results Without Authority: Controlling a Project When the Team Doesn't Report to You
by:
Tom Kendrick
3.83 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
32.
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management
by:
Scott Berkun
3.97 avg rating — 5,257 ratings
33.
The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, And Get Immediate Results
by:
George B. Bradt
3.99 avg rating — 5,951 ratings
34.
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
by:
Marshall Goldsmith
3.95 avg rating — 30,856 ratings
35.
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
by:
Stewart D. Friedman
4.04 avg rating — 5,457 ratings
36.
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
by:
Seth Godin
3.80 avg rating — 42,052 ratings
37.
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
by:
Philip M. Rosenzweig
3.89 avg rating — 5,625 ratings
38.
The Halo Effect
by:
Anne D. LeClaire
4.07 avg rating — 6,675 ratings
39.
The Essential Drucker
by:
Peter F. Drucker
4.09 avg rating — 10,302 ratings
40.
Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers
by:
Erika Andersen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,141 ratings
41.
12: The Elements of Great Managing
by:
Rodd Wagner
3.98 avg rating — 5,765 ratings
42.
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by:
Marcus Buckingham
3.94 avg rating — 41,319 ratings
43.
The Partnership Charter
by:
David Gage
3.97 avg rating — 1,452 ratings
44.
3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals
by:
David A. Lax
3.88 avg rating — 3,700 ratings
45.
Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
by:
G. Richard Shell
3.91 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
46.
The 48 Laws of Power
by:
Robert Greene
4.10 avg rating — 210,235 ratings
47.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
by:
Kerry Patterson
4.07 avg rating — 79,661 ratings
48.
How To Win Friends and Influence People
by:
Dale Carnegie
4.22 avg rating — 1,110,894 ratings
49.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
by:
Robert B. Cialdini
4.22 avg rating — 170,809 ratings
50.
Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
by:
Stephen Few
3.92 avg rating — 4,522 ratings
51.
The Copywriter's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Copy That Sells
by:
Robert W. Bly
3.92 avg rating — 5,921 ratings
52.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by:
Chip Heath
3.98 avg rating — 97,582 ratings
53.
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
by:
Garr Reynolds
4.05 avg rating — 14,690 ratings
54.
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by:
William Zinsser
4.24 avg rating — 30,211 ratings
55.
Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life
by:
Ronald A. Howard
4.02 avg rating — 5,877 ratings
56.
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
by:
John S. Hammond
4.02 avg rating — 6,486 ratings
57.
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
by:
Gary Klein
3.97 avg rating — 2,967 ratings
58.
Self-Directed Behavior (PSY 103 Towards Self-Understanding)
by:
David L. Watson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,243 ratings
59.
Re-Create Your Life: Transforming Yourself and Your World With the Decision Maker Process
by:
Morty Lefkoe
3.98 avg rating — 1,022 ratings
60.
The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
by:
Robert Fritz
4.06 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
61.
The Power Of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential
by:
Leo Babauta
3.71 avg rating — 10,503 ratings
62.
Learning from the Future: Competitive Foresight Scenarios
by:
Liam Fahey
3.93 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
63.
Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing
by:
Mark Levy
3.93 avg rating — 2,183 ratings
64.
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
by:
Richard Koch
3.98 avg rating — 29,817 ratings
65.
Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
by:
Mark Hurst
3.70 avg rating — 2,567 ratings
66.
StrengthsFinder 2.0
by:
Tom Rath
3.93 avg rating — 56,412 ratings
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by:
Jim Loehr
3.98 avg rating — 15,508 ratings
68.
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by:
David Allen
4.01 avg rating — 165,261 ratings
69.
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
by:
Laurence Gonzales
3.94 avg rating — 14,161 ratings
70.
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes our Choices
by:
Paul R. Lawrence
3.98 avg rating — 3,976 ratings
71.
Making Sense of Behavior: The Meaning of Control
by:
William T. Powers
4.02 avg rating — 806 ratings
72.
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (Book & DVD)
by:
John Medina
4.01 avg rating — 34,188 ratings
73.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by:
Daniel Kahneman
4.17 avg rating — 564,613 ratings
74.
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
by:
Brad Feld
4.11 avg rating — 17,045 ratings
75.
How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers
by:
John A. Tracy
3.92 avg rating — 4,626 ratings
76.
Accounting Made Simple: Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less (Financial Topics in 100 Pages or Less)
by:
Mike Piper
3.93 avg rating — 5,435 ratings
77.
The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow
by:
Rafi Mohammed
3.91 avg rating — 640 ratings
78.
Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits!: 4 Keys to Unlock Your Business Potential
by:
Greg Crabtree
4.15 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
79.
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
by:
Karen Berman
4.19 avg rating — 2,821 ratings
80.
Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation
by:
James P. Womack
3.92 avg rating — 5,933 ratings
81.
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by:
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
4.08 avg rating — 81,110 ratings
82.
Indispensable: How To Become The Company That Your Customers Can't Live Without
by:
Joe Calloway
3.91 avg rating — 2,036 ratings
83.
SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-payoff
by:
Neil Rackham
4.01 avg rating — 12,074 ratings
84.
Value-Based Fees: How to Charge - and Get - What You're Worth (The Ultimate Consultant Series)
by:
Alan Weiss
4.05 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
85.
The Ultimate Sales Machine: Turbocharge Your Business with Relentless Focus on 12 Key Strategies
by:
Chet Holmes
3.97 avg rating — 9,063 ratings
86.
Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal
by:
Oren Klaff
4.06 avg rating — 11,388 ratings
87.
The Psychology of Selling: Increase Your Sales Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible
by:
Brian Tracy
4.16 avg rating — 8,341 ratings
88.
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
by:
Jay Abraham
3.95 avg rating — 8,313 ratings
89.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
by:
Al Ries
4.06 avg rating — 22,074 ratings
90.
Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
by:
Seth Godin
3.92 avg rating — 14,775 ratings
91.
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World
by:
Seth Godin
3.88 avg rating — 16,198 ratings
92.
How to Make Millions with Your Ideas: An Entrepreneur's Guide
by:
Dan S. Kennedy
3.92 avg rating — 6,753 ratings
93.
New Business Road Test, The: What Entrepreneurs And Investors Should Do Before Launching A Lean Start-Up
by:
John W. Mullins
3.97 avg rating — 5,857 ratings
94.
Rework
by:
Jason Fried
3.98 avg rating — 173,127 ratings
95.
Bankable Business Plans
by:
Edward G. Rogoff
3.96 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
96.
Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur
by:
Pamela Slim
3.84 avg rating — 5,649 ratings
97.
Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat
by:
Michael Masterson
3.96 avg rating — 7,174 ratings
98.
Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs
by:
Norm Brodsky
4.14 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
99.
The Lean Startup
by:
Eric Ries
4.11 avg rating — 356,011 ratings
100.
Go It Alone!: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own
by:
Bruce Judson
3.92 avg rating — 1,038 ratings