2016's Best Books for Entrepreneurs (So Far)
A selection of newly published books to help you
become more successful in life and in business.
1. Originals
Subtitle: How Nonconformists Move
the World
Author: Adam Grant
Five-Second Summary: Explores how
to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition
of allies, choose the right time to act, manage fear and doubt, nurture
originality in children, and build cultures that welcome dissent.
Best Quote: "To be an
original, you need to take radical risks. This belief is embedded so deeply in
our cultural psyche that we rarely even stop to think about it. We admire
astronauts like Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride for having 'the right stuff'--the
courage to leave the only planet humans have ever inhabited and adventure
boldly into space. We celebrate heroes like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
King Jr., who possessed enough conviction to risk their lives for the moral
principles they held dear. We idolize icons like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for
having the audacity to drop out of school and go for broke, holing up in
garages to will their technological visions into existence."
2. #AskGaryVee
Subtitle: One Entrepreneur's Take
on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Five-Second Summary: Presents
advice on marketing, social media, entrepreneurship, including the use of
Twitter to launch a small business, hiring superstars to creating a personal
brand, launching products, and even staying healthy.
Best Quote: "The vast
majority of people tend to plate to the middle, which is why they usually only
succeed up to a certain level and then plateau. Alternatively, they get stuck
in one or the other, getting so bogged down by minutiae or politics they
lose sight of the clouds, or so into the clouds they lose the appetite or
neglect the skills they need to execute successfully. Ideas are worthless
without the execution; execution is pointless without the ideas. You have to
learn to prioritize properly and quickly identify what's going to move you
further ahead and what's going to make you stall."
3. The
Third Wave
Subtitle: An Entrepreneur's
Vision of the Future
Author: Steve Case
Five-Second Summary: Along with
self-congratulatory boasting typical of books authored by CEOs, Case explains
how technology companies, in order to be successful in the future, must rethink
their relationships with customers, with competitors, and especially with
governments.
Best Quote: "I didn't want
to write a memoir, but I did want to share some of my stories, as I do
believe, as Shakespeare famously said, 'What's past is prologue'--that there
are lessons to be learned. I didn't want to write a guidebook for budding
entrepreneurs, as there are plenty of those--but I did want to explain
why the rules of the entrepreneurial game are changing. And I didn't
want to get too wonky on policy, but I do believe America is at risk of losing
its lead as the world's most entrepreneurial nation, and I wanted to explain
why--and what we can and must do about it."
4. Find
Your Extraordinary
Subtitle: Dream Bigger, Live
Happier, and Achieve Success on Your Own Terms
Author: Jessica DiLullo Herrin
Five-Second Summary: Offers a
series of ideas and strategies intended to help you to "embrace your
individuality, to believe in yourself beyond reason, and to step up to creating
your own definition of happiness and success."
Best Quote: "I believe that
no matter how you contribute to the world--whether it's by becoming a doctor or
a teacher or a stay-at-home mother--your success at whatever you choose is
equally important. None of these choices is any less valid than another--they
are simply different. The world would be a bizarre dystopia if everyone's value
was measured by the same yardstick. We don't all have the same definition of
happiness, and thus we don't all have the same definition of success."
5. Born
for This
Subtitle: How to Find the Work
You Were Meant to Do
Author: Chris Guillebeau
Five-Second Summary: Offers
suggestions for finding your ideal work and ideal working conditions, create
plans that will allow you to take smarter career risks and earn extra cash on
top of your primary stream of income.
Best Quote: "Even if you
receive a regular paycheck and have no intention of ever starting a business,
it's important to understand that you are still essentially self-employed. No
one will look out for your interests as much as you will, so you should make
active decisions and take responsibility for your own success as much as possible.
Even if you have absolutely no desire to start your own business and are
perfectly happy working for a conventional employer, there are plenty of
tactics and strategies for turning that job into the work you were born to
do."
6. The
Power of Broke
Subtitle: How Empty Pockets, a
Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive
Advantage
Authors: Daymond John and Daniel
Paisner
Five-Second Summary: Aims to help
you turn financial difficulties into personal advantage by using them to help
connect with your customers more authentically, market your ideas more
imaginatively, stay focused on your goals, and devise innovative
solutions.
Best Quote: "Let's face it,
when you're up against all odds, when you've exhausted every opportunity, when
you're down to your last dime... that's when you've got no choice but to
succeed. You're out of options, man. So you double down, dig deep, and switch
into that relentless turbo mode we all got kicking around in our machinery. And
that's when the real magic happens."
7. Alibaba
Subtitle: The House That Jack Ma
Built
Author: Duncan Clark
Five-Second Summary: Tells
the story of how Jack Ma built Alibaba into one of the world's largest
companies, an e-commerce empire on which hundreds of millions of Chinese
consumers depend, in the process making himself an icon for China's booming
private sector.
Best Quote: "Jack combines a
lot of showmanship with a relish for defying stereotypes. Where other
business moguls like to talk about their connections or academic credentials,
Jack enjoys talking down his own: 'I don't have a rich or powerful father,
not even a powerful uncle'. Having never studied abroad, he likes to
describe himself as 'one hundred percent made in China.' He stands out as a
tech company founder with no background in technology. At Stanford University
in 2013 he confessed, 'Even today, I still don't understand what coding is all
about, I still don't understand the technology behind the internet.'"
BY GEOFFREY JAMES
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