Black Friday - Holiday Gifts for Staff (and Yourself) - 35 of My Favorite Business Books

As a speaker, consultant and coach, one of the most common questions I get asked is "what should I read next?"

To help you take advantage of Black Friday deals, I've compiled a list of 35 of my favorites on leadership, sales, marketing, scaling, culture and even CEO bios. 

Top Recommendations:

-63% - Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine (Entrepreneurship Simplified)

-61% - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great, 2)

-56% - The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

-36% - Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

-28% - The Business Case for AI: A Leader's Guide to AI Strategies, Best Practices & Real-World Applications

-16% - $100M Offers: How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No

Leadership / Strategy:

-57% - Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success

-45% - Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

-39% - The Great Game of Business, Expanded and Updated: The Only Sensible Way to Run a Company

-39% - Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

-10% - Lead It Like Lasso

Entrepreneurship

-63% - The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

-55% - Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too

-35% - Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

-32% - 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur

-7% - The Home-Based Business Guide to Write Off Almost Anything: You'll Keep More Money Once You Know These Tax Secret

Culture, Teams, Human Resources:

-65% -  ​​The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

-49% - The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

-45% - An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

-22% - The Big Book of HR, 10th Anniversary Edition

-7% - Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

Processes and Systems:

-61% - Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't

-54% - The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios 

-52% - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

-48% - Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

-34% - Clockwork, Revised and Expanded: Design Your Business to Run Itself

Marketing / Sales

-66% - Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers

-44% - Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

-37% - Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, and Outnegotiate Your Competition

-30% - The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage

-7% - Launch: How to Sell Almost Anything Online, Build a Business You Love, and Live the Life of Your Dreams

Biographies:

-45% - In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs

-42% - The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

-40% - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

-34% - When Women Lead: What They Achieve, Why They Succeed, and How We Can Learn from Them

-20% - The Spanx Story: What's Underneath the Incredible Success of Sara Blakely's Billion Dollar Empire

Disclosure: While I do whole-heartedly recommend every one of these products, Divergineer.com is also an Amazon Associate and earns affiliate fees for qualifying purchases through some of the links and recommendations provided.