If you want to continue to grow and better yourself, having a consistent reading habit can help you keep your mind sharp and develop the skills you need to make your next move.
Many wildly successful people tout the benefits of reading and claim that this one habit is crucial to getting them where they are today.
Take a look:
Warren Buffett spends 80% of his time reading.
Bill Gates reads about 50 books each year.
Mark Zuckerberg reads a book every two weeks.
Oprah Winfrey calls books her “path to personal freedom.
Reading is one of an entrepreneur's most essential tools in their toolbox. Books can reveal marketing secrets and business strategy advice, spur new ideas, and motivate you when you need an extra push.
If you’re convinced, but you don’t know where to start, add these five books to your reading list to help you grow your company in 2024.
The Visual Sale - Marcus Sheridan
Video can help you close the deal in a virtual world and this book from award winning marketer and author Marcus Sheridan will show you how.
With practical advice and step by step instructions, this is the ultimate guide to selling over video - no matter how much you hate watching yourself on the screen.
More than ever before, buyers and consumers are demanding for more video. Just "reading" about a product, service, or company will no longer do the trick. Today, they must "see" it.
Key Person of Influence - Daniel Priestley
Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence.
This book shows that there is a strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love.
Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence.
The Ask, You Answer - Marcus Sheridan
We recommend this book to every single one of our clients!
They ask, you answer was an immediate hit once published, mainly due to its easy-to-apply teachings combined with the fact that it was one of the first content marketing books that was written for sales and leadership teams, and not just marketing departments.
Today, it remains a key tool for marketers and business owners around the world looking to truly see how they can become the most trusted voice in their space while obsessing over the way their customers think, act, talk, and search as they move through the buying process.
$100M Leads: How to Get Strangers To Want To Buy Your Stuff - Alex Hormozi
You can get two times, 10 times, or 100 times more leads than you currently are without changing anything about what you sell....
This book contains the playbooks that took Alex from sleeping on his gym floor to owning a portfolio of companies that generate $200 million per year in less than a decade.
Want to know the biggest difference between those two time periods? How many leads he was getting.
The problem is—most business owners don’t know how to get leads and this is where $100M leads will teach you what you don't know.
Inside you will find:
The easiest way to get another five customers tomorrow
The hook-retain-reward system to transforms content into leads
The six-part ad framework that gets more people—especially strangers—to want what you sell
The one question that immediately turns any stranger (no matter how cold) into a hot lead
The seven direct referral methods responsible for 30 percent of sales
The affiliate playbook that gets hundreds of other businesses to advertise your stuff for free
The agency agreement that gets them to teach you their lead-getting secrets at no cost
The how-to-get-people-off-the-streets-and-getting-you-leads-in-less-than-two-weeks framework
And everything else that got Alex’s companies boatloads of leads and fast
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a business book by consultant and speaker Patrick Lencion. It describes many pitfalls that teams face as they seek to "grow together". This book explores the fundamental causes of organisational politics and team failure.
Throughout the book, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team.
Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.
If you want to take your career and your business to the next level, any of these bestsellers can help you get there. Books like the ones on our list can help you see into the minds of successful individuals from the business world and learn from their hard-earned wisdom.
This list is an excellent starting point for those of you wanting to sharpen your business skills. However, there are plenty of insightful business books beyond these that can help you dive deeper into any topics that interest you.
We have so many more books to recommend so we regularly update our learning hub with our team's favourite reads!
Whether you have 5 minutes, 1 hour or a whole morning, reading every day will make a world of difference to your mindset and knowledge.
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