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A man who has read the ABC will have a small business. A man who has read Homer would have a bigger business.

Selected recommendations

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

People who made a difference

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We forget that the people who built empires often started from scratch. Many of them at their inception could hardly be called a business. Upon reading the biographies of business giants, you quickly realize that the path they took was filled with mistakes that ultimately led to success. I recommend reading these books for those who need to work through their imposter syndrome and better understand how to scale a business.

My Life, My Achievements

Henry Ford

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Road to the Future

Ashley Vance

Never Give Up: Jack Ma In His Own Words

Jack Ma

Sam Walton: Made In America

Sam Walton

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight

Philosophy

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An entrepreneur is a person who deeply understands the world and knows how to interact with it precisely. Business is done by someone who is able to see the interconnectedness of existing processes and, under these conditions, propose new rules of the game. Here is a list of books that will help you become a true game-changer if you read them.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Skin in the game. Hidden Asymmetries in Daily

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Ray Dalio

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Fiction

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An entrepreneur, like a writer, creates something original that did not exist before him. Sometimes it is better to be transported into the world of a fictional story. This is so that you can return later to solve difficult problems and look at them in a completely different way.

Trilogy of desire: Three novels (The Financier; The Titan; The Stoic)

Theodore Dreiser

American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser

«1984»

George Orwell

Anxious People

Fredrik Backman

Fun yet meaningful

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Humour is what allows us to have a broader perception of reality. Read these books, take a break from clericalism, and see familiar things from a new perspective.

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright

Self Management

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At the heart of successful management is the ability to organize your work, and then the work of the team. How can your team work more effectively? Take advantage of the already-existing best practices in the books listed below.

The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance

Tony Schwartz

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic

Stephen R. Covey

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Marshall Goldsmith

People Management

Section summary:

Business management is about managing people because business is done by people. In this section, you will find books that can help you solve a specific entrepreneurial problem. For convenience, the books are divided into groups of tasks, which can be solved with the help of the suggested books.

Leading the Leaders: How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle People Whose Style is Different From Yours

Itzhak Adizes

The Road To Life

Anton Makarenko

Hidden Champions – The Vanguard of Germany in Globalia

Hermann Simon

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

There are practical books, which can be used to accomplish a specific task, and there are philosophical books, which can expand your understanding of the world.

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