Book Reviews
Tips and FAQ for a Home Business

One of the most important things you can have when starting or running your own business is knowledge. You want to know up front what works, what doesn't work, what is well worth your time, what is a waste of your time. There are many, many books out there that can help you with these issues. Sometimes devoting an hour to reading a book can save you weeks of effort.

Keep a business book in your bathroom. Get business books on audio tape for your commutes. A lot of these books have 10 pages of generic information and then 1 really valuable tip. They are perfect for skimming a chapter at a time, and then focussing on the one gem you have learned as a result.

Starting your Own Business
Career Renegade - Jonathan Fields

Organization and Planning
The Change Your Life Challenge - Brook Noel
First Things First - Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill
Getting Things Done - David Allen
The Now Habit - Neil Fiore
Take Time for Your Life - Cheryl Richardson
Retire and Start Your Own Business - Sargent

Finances
50 Simple Steps you can take to improve your Personal Finances - Ilyce R. Glink
Investing for Change - Augustin Landier
Lower Your Taxes - Big Time - Sandy Botkin
Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is - Natalie Pace
Self-Employed Tax Solutions - June Walker

Business Relationships
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
Motivation and Goal-Setting - Jim Cairo
The Art of War for Women - Chin-Ning Chu

Motivation and Inspiration
100 Ways to Motivate Others - Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson
1001 Ways to Energize Employees - Bob Nelson
1001 Ways to Reward Employees - Bob Nelson
Fired Up or Burned Out - Michael Lee Stallard
Reward Systems - Steve Kerr

Leadership and Management
13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them - W. Steven Brown
Coaching for Improved Work Performance - Ferdinand Fournies
Everything I Know About Business I Learned from my Mama - Tim Knox
The First 90 Days - Michael Watkins
The Girl's Guide to Being a Boss - Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio
Managing Difficult People - Marilyn Pincus
Retaining your Best People - Harvard Business School
Smarter, Faster, Better - Karlin Sloan
To Lead is To Serve - Shar McBee
Volunteers - How to Get Them, How to Keep Them - Helen Little
What To Do when You Become the Boss - Bob Selden
Why Employees Don't Do What They're Supposed To Do and What To Do About It - Ferdinand F. Fournies
Why should anyone be led by you? - Rob Goffee

Running a Business
Rethink - Ric Merrifield

Networking
The Art of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
I Can See You Naked - Ron Hoff
Mental_Floss - The Magazine
Sell the Feeling - Larry Pinci
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Marketing
Marketing for Dummies - Alexander Hiam
New Rules of Marketing and PR - David Meerman Scott
Rubies in the Orchard - Lynda Resnick

Self Evaluation
A Complaint Free World - Will Bowen
Courage Doesn't Always Roar - Mary Anne Radmacher
Enough Already - Peter Walsh
Get a Life that Doesn't Suck - Michelle DeAngelis
Hell, Yes! - Elizabeth Cogswell Baskin
Help is Not a Four-Letter Word - Peggy Collins
The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch
Lessons of a Turtle - Sandy Gingras
Live with Meaning, Die with Passion - Fumitada Naoe
A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
Paving it Forward - Elisabeth Fayt
Positive Thinking Every Day - Norman Vincent Peale
Pout or Purpose - Harold Kerr
The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
The Story of You - Steve Chandler
The 10 Golden Rules - M.A. Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas
The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People - David Niven
Think and Make It Happen - Dr. Augusto Cury
Your Truest Self - Janice Lynne Lundy
The Vision Board - Joyce Schwarz

Humor
Momnesia - Shannon Payette Seip & Adrienne Hedger
The Nature of Friendship - Maryjo Koch
Relative Discomfort - Jeremy Greenberg
What are Friends For? - Marsha Karzmer

Writing
The Writer's Journey - Christopher Vogler
Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips - Mignon Fogarty

Reading Accessories
Amazon Kindle Book Reader
Mighty Bright - LED Book Light

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