There is an old saying that to become powerful in any profession the first step begins with educating yourself.
To establish the veracity of such wisely spoken words, we have prepared this blog consisting of the 25 Best-Sellers Business Books of their time which will facilitate a strong foundation for your business career.
Since time immemorial, books have been considered the most pivotal vessel of information for humans. They not only comprise the wisdom of the sages but encompass the world of knowledge, success, failures, morals, rules, regulations and every facet of life you can imagine.
Books can not be compared to the gospels. Rather like any other human being, it has its limitations, prejudices, stereotypes, and unidirectional flow of narration.
The thing to most adored about books is that each one narrates a story that inspires the readers to replicate it, in their reality.
Irrespective, whether it’s fiction or an autobiography, every book is meant to leave its readers in awe and deep thought that everything is within grasp in this world if you have determination, diligence, and discipline in you.
Similarly, for people who belong to one of the most lucrative business fields; ‘management’ comprises the students, professionals, managers, proprietors, or anyone remotely linked to it.
This blog is meant for you all!
The books which we have brought for you in this blog are the must-read books and they deserve a place on your bookshelf.
These books shouldn’t be thought of as collectables, rather they must be considered as your assets, assets of knowledge, which will act as the paving stones in your path to glory and success.
The book holds the accounts of real-life achievers. They must not be considered as some ordinary syllabus references, they are written by people who know the business in and out, they know how hard it is to build things from scratch, and most importantly what it takes to reach the pantheon and share a seat with the best of the best.
Let’s move on to the list of 25 Best Business Books
1. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies – Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
This book Built to Last talks about how success is a timeless process that can be adopted by meticulously examining the tried and trusted principles of successful business powerhouses like Procter & Gamble, Walt Disney, etc.
The book is a must-read because it cracks the code for businesses, especially those who aspire to be the next Unicorns by breaking down the success stories of the visionary companies.
2. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business – Josh Kaufman
The art of business doesn’t go from professional MBA courses, universities, and degrees. It requires an understanding of the market and analysing the success mantra of already established businesses.
This book is the perfect guide to busting business myths and making your facts straight by systematically understanding the core of business knowledge.
3. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
The book is a perfect blend of hardships and comfort a CEO encounters in his or her life while running a business. The CEO must remain optimistic as well as rational at the same time and must be the first one to take a stand when things are going sideways for the business.
4. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
Things you enjoy the most will also be the most passionate things you will desire. Deep Work mentions the power of concentration as a prerequisite for an individual’s success. As going deep with one’s specialisation, skill or talent is the key to understanding the complex systems of life. And, once you master those complexities you turn out as a highly productive personality.
5. How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
The book serves as an amazing piece of literature that helps people to understand the way others should be treated. It emphasizes the actions of respecting other people’s points of view and comprehending the rationality of their statements rather than criticizing them.
Carnegie explicitly explains in his book that success can only be achieved by respecting and learning from others and incorporating it into your attitude and behavior.
6. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike – Phil Knight
Shoes Dog presents the memoirs written by its phenomenal creator Phil Knight who mentions the complete account of his early days in Nike and how it created one of the biggest sports footwear manufacturing companies.
You don’t need to trust our recommendation for reading this book as one of the richest man Bill Gates, in an interview had mentioned Shoe Dog to be one of his five favorite books of 2016 and classified it as a must-read for people who want to achieve big in life.
7. Traction: How any Start-up Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth – Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
Gabriel Weinberg founder of ‘Duckduckgo’ in Traction breaks down the growth strategies for a business and provides them with a new perspective to approach it.
The book explores 19 potential strategies or channels to attract customers and solidify the growth of their businesses.
8. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
Essentialism brings an amazing supply of energy enclosed in the web of words for those who feel quite insignificant, exhausted, and unproductive in their lives.
It focuses on devising strategies and finding ways to establish control over your life rather than being distracted all the time and channel your energy in one direction which is towards achieving your goals through 3 essentialist mindsets of choice, discern, and trade-offs.
9. The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, And Live An Extraordinary Life – John Assaraf and Murray Smith
This book is one of the best when it comes to the dissemination of a vision and completely transforms the conventional forms of business literature. Asaraf and Murray through conceptual frameworks, knowledge, and experience make the art of achieving a dream a reality rather than a mere mirage.
The Answer takes the whole discussion of becoming great to another level by linking it with humans’ cognitive abilities and ways to alter them for their betterment and success.
10. Zero to One: Notes on Start-up, or How to Build the Future – Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Zero to One is considered one of the best business books ever written and is highly regarded by literature pundits. The book talks about novelty and finding new paths to success in this age of technology and information.
Thiel and Masters profoundly emphasise the continuous journey of learning as it’s the best way to progress in one’s own life.
11. So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love – Cal Newport
This book comes out as a myth buster of the cliche saying ‘follow your passion’ rather it accentuates the fact of becoming a craftsman of the art, skill, or talent you possess.
Newport quite incessantly explains that there is nothing like unidirectional passion. It all depends on your experience and expertise, the more you gather them, the more will be the passions you will develop in your life.
12. Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s – Ray Kroc
Ray Kroc is credited for the global expansion of McDonald’s and is known to make it one of the greatest fast-food chains in the world. In the book, he mentions his modest start and also the failures he encountered in his everyday life.
Kroc’s book is a testament to the fact that age is just a number because when he acquired McDonald’s he was 50 years old and from there he dreamt of creating his legacy through it.
13. Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz
Maltz through his work tries to deal with the personality people tend to have either due to peer pressure or society. Due to this they often develop a pessimistic aura around them which affects their overall decision making and they develop self-doubt about their personality.
The book emphasises the need to train the human brain as a machine that will help in improving their self-image and pull them out from the well of negative thoughts.
14. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
In life one of the most crucial things is to find the most productive use of time and energy and along with it lay down your own sets of rules and principles. And, if things don’t fall into your own sets of rules then you don’t need to give much thought to such things as they are not pertinent to your life.
The only pertinent things in your life are what affects you at a personal level and rather than being conscious about what others will say, it is better to remain less conscious regarding your life and concentrate on your work.
15. Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! – Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rich Dad Poor Dad is the best piece of advice one could get regarding how to handle one’s money and rather than criticising their financial status they must focus on their decisions which will help them better in utilising their money.
It perfectly mentions the difference between assets and liabilities and why rich people generate more assets compared to the poor or less privileged people who invest in liabilities and are unable to escape the curse of their financial limitations.
16. Breakthrough Advertising – Eugene Schwartz
It’s the best piece one could avail to understand marketing better, as it heeds to the identification of mass desire and further, channelling it into a single shape either of a product or service as it will be the thing which will not only make your market campaign a success but will exponentially increase your sales and business growth.
The book also indulges in the identification of the awareness and sophistication of the market which must be portrayed through the advertising channels in the form of taglines and campaigns.
17. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
The book tries to decode the irrationality of the human behaviour reflected through their decision-making process and Riley tries to comprehend the same process through the concept of Behavioural Economics.
Instead, establishing how consumers behave produces the spotlight on their patterns and trends of irrationality making it quite a fascinating piece of work to be read in an instant.
18. 10x Marketing Formula: Your Blueprint for Creating Competition Free Content that Stands out and Gets Results – Garrett Moon
For all the budding content creators or even the experienced ones, this book is a perfect read. Moreover, Moon tries to achieve greatness in marketing through the channels of content creation as it’s considered the most undervalued skill in marketing.
But, in reality, content is something that brings customers to your businesses and scrounges for your products and services. The book focuses on competition free and valuable content creation as a prerequisite of a successful business strategy.
19. The Magic of Thinking Big: Acquire the Secrets of Success and Achieve Everything You’ve Always Wanted – Dr Schwartz
This book normalises the process of success as it propagates the idea that one does not need to be heavily intellectual and a born prodigy, rather simplistic ways and keeping high goals can supply the fuel of motivation and provide efficiency to their lives.
20. Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
Start with Why is a phenomenal read for those who want to lead but require certain assistance as the book highlights the communication and thinking ability of future leaders.
It encompasses inspiration and building trust processes which are quite essential for leaders as the charm carried in their leadership influences everyone around them.
21. Outrageous Advertising That’s Outrageously Successful: Created for the 99% of Small Business Owners Who Are Dissatisfied With the Results They Get From Their Current Advertising – Bill Glazer
Outrageous advertising breaks all the conventional channels through which the world operates rather it suggests some alternative and outrageous methods no one ever deems of thinking.
Like the book provides the example of a malfunctioned sprinkler system and the out of the box strategy applied makes this book a must-read.
22. Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations – William Ury
The world is not a straight and smooth road through which everyone can reach their journey; rather it’s the most tumultuous journey filled with surprises, excitement, roadblock, and hardships one could imagine.
Life pans out in constant negotiations and to effectively negotiate you need to overcome obstacles of reactions, emotions, position, dissatisfaction, and power.
23. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It – Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
It is another book regarding the art of negotiation as it talks about every situation in life as a negotiation as it depends on the calibre of the person and how easily they can negotiate and live a successful life. It becomes essential to have a competitive edge over all kinds of negotiations.
24. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life – Scott Adams
The book criticises the fundamental structure of life which emphasises a loss of aversive behaviour rather Adams disseminates the idea through his memoir that losing at everything doesn’t matter what matters is the one victory as it eventually compensates for all the losses one has encountered in their lives.
Adams further encourages in his book to build systems, don’t hesitate in taking risks, and always find sources for your energy.
25. Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter – Scott Adams
The book focuses on the power of persuasion and exceptional communications skills which were the two cornerstones of Donald Trump’s victory. Adams believes that a person needs to be a dream seller, visionary, and an astonishing orator with the ability to convince people in mere interpersonal skills.
We believe these 25 Business books will help you to add quite peculiar skills under your belt and these skills will not only enhance your business acumen but will provide you with a completely new direction for running your business towards the path of growth and success.
So! Don’t waste more of your time and read these books as soon as possible.