Recommended Reading
How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinc: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Fantastic book for multi-passionate entrepreneurs! Ever been told that you should only focus on one thing at a time? Visionary thinker Michael J. Gelb offers a different approach on how to create space for multiple passions and priorities in your life. Check it out!
How to Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System for Business Breakthrough Success
Another thought provoking book by thought-leader Michael J. Gelb that offers key insights into unlocking the corners of your mind and empowering innovation. A great read for entrepreneurs and corporate team leaders alike, it will change the way you approach problem-solving with Gelb’s carefully researched, easy-to-follow 5-step process modeled on Edison’s own creation methodology.
Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking: Uncork Your Creative Juices
Prolific business visionary Michael J. Gelb’s latest work combines two of my passions – wine drinking and inspired thinking! It explores the power of wine (and other yummy substances) in unlocking the creative part of the brain and develop solutions to challenges large and small. It also provides context around the combination of wine and thinking by many of history’s most profound minds. So uncork a bottle of your favorite vino and let the inspired reading – and thinking – begin!
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin is one of the premier thought leaders in today’s business. This incredibly powerful book – easily digestible in a coast-to-coast flight – lays out an indisputable case on why entrepreneurs must step up and claim their “Tribe”. Only by connecting with those who resonate with their ideals, values and offerings while taking a much-needed leadership role, can business owners survive and thrive in the coming global shift. This book is one of the 2-3 most influential business books I have read in the past decade. Do yourself a favor and pick it up!
The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by vagabond Lifepreneur Tim Ferriss became an instant best seller and really pushed the envelope around how workers and entrepreneurs could streamline their jobs/businesses, design mini-retirements and generally live life more fully. Well Tim is back with a new and expanded edition that provides more guidance, more case studies, more “how-to”. If you are ready to quit “living to work” and start “working to live”, you must own this book!
eMyth Revisited
These are a must-read for anyone who has gone into business for themselves. Understanding how many of us fall into our businesses, the cycles we go through and how to really think like a business owner and not just the work you do is essential for anyone who wants to be truly successful.
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
Tal Ben-Shahar is one of the most popular professors at Harvard for his class on Positive Psychology. In short, we learn that happiness CAN be taught and he takes you through a very practical & thoughtful approach to creating greater happiness and fulfillment in your life.
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers will Rule the Future
Daniel Pink does it again! This wildly successful author and speaker makes a strong case for the global shift that is coming as a result of Abundance, Asia and Automation. If you want to be on the cuttting edge, want to know the 21st century skills that you and your business will need to have, then you MUST read this soon!
