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A great read for both employees and managers. It complements both Radical Candor by Kim Scott and Principles by Ray Dalio

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If you only read one book on the list, this is the essential one!

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This one works great with Essentialism to help you define your focus.

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One of my favorite quotes from this book: "The only thing you have control over that can influence the way your life turns out is the quality of your decisions."

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This echoes a lot of what I like from Kris Plachy and Brooke Castillo's work.

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Before you work on business finances, you need to get your personal ones in order.

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Great for anything you are trying to change in either your personal life or your business.

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A worthy successor to Getting Things Done. Go beyond productivity into creating your own knowledge vault. Recommended for both productivity geeks and also writers, project managers, and anyone needing to synthesize a lot of information inputs.

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The productivity bible. This system in conjunction with Trello makes me feel uber-organized.

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All businesses should operate with this mindset. The system is great, too, and I've been using it for the past few years.

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This is a great book, but I think of it as management 301. Before you can effectively implement the advice in this book, you need to first master self-care (101) and creating written procedures and expectations for your employees (201).

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This book shows you how to best convey your love and passion for your product/offering to someone else using real facts and info, not gimmicks.

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Today's marketing primer every business owner needs on how to clarify your message and get it through the noise and overwhelm.

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Entrepreneurship is scary and with so much going on in your life and business it can be really easy to delude that you're not doing something just because you're superbusy, not because you're afraid. This is an excellent book for helping to shine a light on your known and subconscious fears and confront them head on.