7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy is a business strategy book by Hamilton Helmer. It provides a framework that helps managers and business leaders understand the key concepts behind sustained business success. The book identifies and articulates seven distinct sources of power that a company can possess: scale economies, network economies, counter-positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resource, and process power.
Written by Christine Comaford, ‘7 Business Habits That Drive High Performance’ is a guide for business leaders aiming to improve their company’s performance. The book outlines seven key habits that, according to the author, can significantly enhance a company’s productivity, innovation, loyalty and, ultimately, its bottom line.
60 Seconds & You’re Hired! by Robin Ryan is a comprehensive guide to job interviews. It provides a variety of tools, techniques, and practical tips to succeed in a job interview, and ultimately secure a job offer. Robin emphasizes the importance of first impressions, how to answer tough interview questions, and how to effectively negotiate salary and job conditions.
In ‘The Ideal Team Player’, Patrick Lencioni identifies the three characteristics that all great team players possess, illustrates them with real-life stories, and provides practical advice about how to instill these virtues in the workplace. The three virtues are humility, hunger, and people smarts.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things is a candid and realistic guidebook for leaders, CEOs, and entrepreneurs. It provides useful advice for dealing with tough issues that arise in business including firing personnel, experiencing failure, and learning from their own mistakes.
The Greatest Salesman in the World is a guide by Og Mandino that lays out a philosophy of salesmanship for individuals, indicating that success in sales is a matter of mindset, not a plethora of techniques. The book provides a set of principles to succeed in life, not just in sales. It uses a storytelling technique to present these principles in a captivating manner.
The Goal, by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, is a business novel about a plant manager, Alex Rogo, who is tasked with improving the performance of a failing manufacturing plant within a three-month deadline. The novel presents the Theory of Constraints, a management philosophy that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints.
Written by Jon Gordon, ‘The Energy Bus’ takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment. The protagonist, George, learns valuable life lessons from a unique bus driver, Joy, and her delightful group of passengers.
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It is a book written by Michael E. Gerber. It explores the myth that most businesses are started by people with tangible business skills, when in fact most are started by ‘technicians’ who know nothing about running a business. Gerber’s E-Myth shows that a successful business must have a balance of three key roles: the entrepreneur, the manager, and the technician.