Tony's Top Business Books (P1 of my reading list)

By Author - Books about Business, Leadership, Management and Marketing

99u by Behance – Manage Your Day-to-Day – Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus & Sharpen  Your Creative Mind

Adair, John – Effective Leadership – A modern guide to developing effective leadership skills

Alexander, Todd – Get Your Business Online Now – Be Part of Australia’s E-Commerce Revolution

Allen, David – How To Get Things Done – The Art of Stress-free Productivity

Asprey, Dave - Game Changers - What Leaders, Innovators and Mavericks Do to Win at Life

Beaumont, Dale – Secrets of Great Success Coaches Exposed!

Berger, Jonah – Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Blanchard & Johnson, Kenneth & Spencer – The One Minute Manager – Increase Productivity, Profits and Your Own Prosperity

Blanchard & Lorber, Kenneth & Robert – Putting The One Minute Manager to Work – Improve Performance, Productivity and Profits

Blanchard, Oncken Jnr & Burrows, Kenneth, William & Hal The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey – Free Up Your Time and Deal with Priorities

Blanchard and Peale, Kenneth & Norman Vincent – The Power of Ethical Management – You don’t have to cheat to win

Blanchard, Hutson & Williss, Ken, Don & Ethan – The One Minute Entrepreneur – The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business

Blanchard, Zigarmi and Zigarmi, Ken, Patricia and Drea – Leadership and The One Minute Manager – increase effectiveness by being a good leader

Borensztajn, Jordana - Capture My Attention - How to Stand Out Online with Creative Content

Bouris, Mark –‘What it Takes’– An Attitude of Hard Work, Commitment and Purpose

Branson, Richard – Like a Virgin – Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School

Branson, Richard – ‘Losing my Virginity’

Branson, Richard – Business Stripped Bare – Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Branson, Richard – Screw Business As Usual

Brech, EFL – Management – Its Nature and Significance

Brown, Brene – ‘Dare to Lead’ – Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

Brown, Margaret – The Manager’s Guide to the Behavioural Sciences

Browne, Garry -Brand New Brand You – How to build and maintain reputation and relevance

Cardone, Grant – Be Obsessed or Be Average – Why Work-Life Balance is For Losers by Grant Cardone (NB I don’t agree with that statement! – Tony Inman)

Carlzon, Jan – Moments of Truth – New Strategies for Today’s Customer-Driven Economy

Carnegie, Dale & Associates – How To Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

Chaet & Lundin, Mike & Stephen – Loops – The Seven Keys to Small Business Success

Church, Cook & Stein, Matt, Peter & Scott – ‘Sell Your Thoughts’ – How to Earn a Million Dollars a Year as a Thought Leader

Church, Cook & Stein, Matt, Peter & Scott -‘The Thought Leaders Practice’ – Do Work You Love with People You Like the Way You Want

Clarke, Andrea - Future Fit - How to Stay Relevant and Competitive in the Future of Work by Andrea Clarke

Coles, Linda – ‘Social Media for Business’ – Foolproof Tips to Help You Promote Your Business or Your Brand

Collins, Jim – Good to Great – Whys some companies make the leap…and others don’t

Collins, Patrick – Negotiate To Win – Talking Your Way to What You Want

Collis & LeBoeuf, Jack and Michael – Work Smarter, Not Harder

Covey, Stephen R – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Covey, Stephen – The Speed of Trust – The One Thing that Changes Everything

Cunningham, Keith J. – The Ultimate Blueprint – For an Insanely Successful Business

De Bono, Edward - Six Thinking Hats

Doerr, John - Measure What Matters - OKRs - The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

Drucker, Peter F – The Practice of Management

Drucker, Peter F – The Effective Executive

Dwyer, John – How to Wow – Client Attraction System

Emery, Mal – Exposed – Zero to Millionaire in Three Years or Less in Your Own Business and Still Enjoy the Journey Along the Way

Emery, Mal – Crisis Exposed – Recession Proof Your Business and Income

Elvy, H – Marketing Made Simple

Fenn, Donna – Alpha Dogs – How Your Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack

Ferguson, Sir Alex with Moritz, Michael – Leading

Ferriss, Tim – The 4 Hour Workweek

Fox, Anne – Australia’s New Entrepreneurs – How They Succeeded

Gerber, Michael E – Awakening the Entrepreneur Within – How Ordinary People Can Create Extraordinary Companies

Gerber, Michael E – The E Myth Revisited – Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do about it

Gerber, Michael E – E Myth Mastery – The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company

Gladwell, Malcolm – The Tipping Point – How little things can make a big difference

Gladwell, Malcolm – Outliers – The Story of Success

Godin, Seth – All Marketers Are Liars Tell Stories – The Underground Classic that Explains How Marketing Really Works – and Why Authenticity is the Best Marketing of All

Godin, Seth – Permission Marketing – Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers

Godin, Seth – Poke the Box

Godin, Seth – Purple Cow – Transforming Your Business by Being Remarkable

Godin, Seth – The Icarus Deception – how high will you fly?

Godin, Seth - The Practice - Shipping Creative Work

Godin, Seth – ‘This is Marketing’ – You Can’t Be Seen until You Learn to See

Godin, Seth – Tribes – We Need You to Lead Us

Godin, Seth – Unleashing the Idea Virus – Stop marketing AT people! Turn your ideas into epidemics by helping your customers do the marketing for you.

Godin, Seth – We Are All Weird – The Rise of Tribes and The End of Normal

Godin, Seth – ‘What to Do When it’s Your Turn’ – [And it’s Always Your Turn]

Goleman, Daniel – The New Leaders – Transforming the Art of Leadership into the Science of Results

Gowor, Emily – The Unlikely Entrepreneur – A Spiritual Guide to Business and Your Path of Greatest Evolution

Guber, Peter – Tell To Win – Connect, Persuade and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story

Guillebeau, Chris – The $100 Startup – Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

Hardy, Leonard – Marketing For Profit

Harkavy, Daniel – Becoming a Coaching Leader – The proven strategy for building your own team of champions

Harkin, James – Niche – Why the Market No Longer Favours the Mainstream

Heller, Robert – The Business of Winning – How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying

Hennessy, Brittany – ‘Influencer’ – Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media

Herald, Justin – So You Have a Great Idea for a Business… Now What?

Hopkins, Tom – How to Master the Art of Selling – The best book ever written on selling and salesmanship

Johnson & Wilson, Spencer & Larry – The One Minute Sales Person – The Quickest Way to More Sales with Less Stress

Jones & Cooper, Andrew & Cary – Combating Managerial Obsolescence

Kaplan, Cyndy - To Market, To Market - How to Make Money at the Markets and Craft Shows in Australia & New Zealand

Kennedy, Shannah – Simplify, Structure, Succeed – The practical toolkit for modern life

Kim & Mauborgne, W,Chan & Renee – Blue Ocean Strategy – How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Kleon, Austin - Show Your Work - 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Lewis, Dr David – Winning New Business – How to Plan & Deliver Successful Sales Presentations

Lim, David – ‘Blogging:’ How to Write Blog Blog Posts that Go Viral without Selling Out

Lindstrom, Martin – Buy-Ology – Truth and Lies about Why We Buy

Lindstrom, Martin – Brandwashed – Tricks companies use to manipulate our minds and persuade us to buy

Maurer, Robert – One Small Step can Change Your Life – The Kaizen Way

Maxwell, John C – The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership – Follow Them and People Will Follow You

McCormack, Mark H – What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School

McCormack, Mark H – The 110% Solution

McGeorge, Donna - The Chat GPT Revolution - How to Simplify Your Work and Life Admin with AI

Mesiti, Pat – Attitudes and Altitudes – The Principles, Practice and Profile of 21st Century Leadership

Michaelowicz, Michael ‘The Pumpkin Plan’ – A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in any field

Miller, Donald – ‘Building a Brand Story’ : Clarify Your Message So Your Customers Will Listen-

Milojevic, Angelique – Entrepreneurs Under The Radar – Inside the outstanding business minds of quiet achievers

Mitchell, Euan – Self-Publishing Made Simple

Mogano M – How to Start and Run Your Own Business

Moss, G – Revitalize Your Business

Montoya & Vandehey, Peter and Tim – The Brand Called You – Create a Personal Brand that Wins Attention and Grows Your Business

Munster, Morten - I'm Afraid Debbie from Marketing Has Left for the Day - How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real World

O’Toole, Tom – Breadwinner – A Fresh Approach to Business Success

Parsons, Rob – The Heart of Success – Making It in Business without Losing in Life

Patterson, Grenny, McMillan & Switzler, Kerry, Joseph, Ron and Al – Crucial Conversations – Tools for Talking when Stakes are High

Pemberton Levy, Heather – Brand Meet Story – How to Create Engaging Content to Win Business and Influence Your Audience

Perera, Gihan – Fast, Flat and Free – How the Internet has Changed Your Business

Peters, Thomas J – In Search of Excellence

Potter, Tom – The Eagle Boys Pizza Story – How Tom Potter Built Eagle Boys Across Australia and New Zealand from a Single Store

Ransom, Holly - The Leading Edge - Dream Big, Spark Change and Become the Leader the World Needs You to Be

Roberts, Wess – Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun

Ryan & Moore, Kevin & Dennis – Making Fun Work – How to create a funnier you and how to turn humour into profit!

Salt, Bernard – Man Drought and Other Social Issues of the New Century

Sanders, Tim – Love is the Killer App – How To Win Business & Influence Friends

Sasevich, Lisa -Meant for More – The Proven Formula to Turn Your Knowledge into Profits

Sharma, Robin – The Leader Who Had No Title – A modern fable on real success in business and in life

Sheahan, Peter – Generation Y – Thriving and surviving with Generation Y at work

Sinek, Simon - Leaders Eat Last - Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

Sinek, Simon – Start with Why – How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Sinek, Simon – The Infinite Game

Stewart, Rosemary – The Reality of Management

Trump and Zanker, Donald & Bill – Think Big – Make it Happen in Business and Life

Tzu, Sun – The Art of War

Vaynerchuk, Gary – Crushing It – How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence, and How You Can, Too

Vise, David A. – The Google Story – Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time

Wadsworth, Simon – ‘The Captain’s Club’ – The Men Who Led United

Warrillow, John – Built to Sell – Creating a Business that can Thrive without You

Weiss, Alan – Million Dollar Coaching – Build a World Class Practice by Helping Others Succeed

Weiss, Alan – Million Dollar Launch – How to Kick-Start a Successful Consulting Practice in 90 Days

Weiss, Alan – The Consulting Bible – Everything You Need to Know to Create and Expand a Seven-figure Consulting Practice

Whiteley, Craig – Creating Customers for Life – Tips, Techniques and Strategies for Growing ANY Business Even in the Toughest Economies

Young, Trevor – How to Leverage Social Media and Content Marketing to Micro-domination – Build a Mini-Business Empire Around Your Personal Brand