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5 Must-Read Books for the Entrepreneur +1 for Canadian Entrepreneurs - Desperately Seeking WP. Must Have Books for Creative Business Leaders | Write Money Incorporated. By Rhonda Campbell It doesn’t matter whether you’re currently working for an employer and strongly considering starting your own business, a new entrepreneur who has managed a company for one year or less or a seasoned creative business leader. You can always learn about better, easier and more improved ways to engage your customers, grow your profits and manage your business.

Reading on-point books that are written by people who know how to turn failing businesses around, motivate staff and get stagnant markets moving again is a great way to get insights, tips and workable solutions to challenges you might be facing right now as a creative business leader. These books give you clear and well defined action steps that you can take to create profitable businesses. These book salso show you that what you may have previously thought of as being impossible is actually very possible after all. List of Must Have Books for Creative Business Leaders. Self-Taught MBA: Inspired Reading. January 31st, 2012 in Blogs Business books can provide inspiration. But they can also lead you in too many directions if you don't pick topics by the areas in your business that require renewed focus, such as finance, marketing or operations management. Once you know what you need to focus on, you'll find a library full of useful business books both technical and inspiring.

I recently picked up a book called "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time," by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten (Penguin Books 2009), the book begins with an alphabetically arranged, to-do list of the 100 most popular business books the facetious command to, "start reading. " As I browsed down the list, staring with "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and ending with "Zag," I thought about why it's so important to keep in mind your business management framework in mind as you allocate precious time to your self-education. Here are a few examples, and an invitation for readers to suggest a few more: 1. 2. 3. 4. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It (9780887307287): Michael E. Gerber. Hit the Deck: Create a Business Plan in Half the Time, With Twice the Impact (9780982740200): David Ronick.