8 Best Books for Small Business Beginners

Business books do not give the actual idea, but it really shows the path of reality. By reading business books one can understand and realize how to deal with a specific situation. Books generally serve as the light which will serve as a showing thing in the dark road.

Here few books which will serve as helping hand for business beginners are given:
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1. Little Red Book of Selling

-by Jeffrey Gitomer

The business entrepreneur must sell its product to the customer and sell its business mission and vision to its employee so that the employee can work accordingly. This book by Jeffrey Gitomer will help the new business person by showing them how to motivate its employee in encouraging them in doing the thing to achieve the business mission and vision. It will also help the reader and business entrepreneur to know the pros and cons of business selling. This book is very little in size, but it will really serve the beginner in knowing the business beginners.

2. Rework

-by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

This book has a very straightforward approach it is not like other books that tell about which emphasizes proper planning, the importance of external investor and it does not even emphasis on winning against a competitor. This book has a very simple approach and simply talking and its language is also very easy to understand. It says that planning must be done but it is not everything.

The external investor has a great impact, but it says that a business must not search the external investor rather it should make it a brand so that external business searches the opportunity to be a part of that business investing party. It also emphasizes to race with the competitor because the competitor is a totally different party, so a business should always emphasize on its own strength rather than on the weakness of the competitor.

3. Outliers: The Story of Success

-by Malcolm Gladwell

Success is the main desire of every business person. This book by Malcolm Gladwell discusses the way of success in business. This book says that there is no math of success in business. One will succeed in the only way when one will do and work in its strength. When one will work in one strength then that work will result in best. If one businessman works in its strength, then that business will work in the favor of a person. The basis of this book is that one businessman must work in the strength of his and not follow other who has success in that business.    

 

4. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Some Don’t

-by Jim Collins

This book is about how the management structure of the organization should be and how the management structure helps an organization in making a business successful. This book by Collins has made research in great companies and come up with the idea that the organization must have a clear structure and everyone in the organization must follow that structure. Again, everyone must have a supervisor that will question and look for the work and each supervisor must have the power necessary to control its followers.

5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable

-by Patrick Lencioni

This book shows how a leader can regroup a problematic organization and make it successful. One leader is the showing path for all the employee. If the leader shows the right path, then the organization will succeed but if the leader shows the wrong path then the organization will fail. This book value of leader and by reading this the beginner understand how to be a leader and the importance of a leader in a business.

6. Zero to One

-by Peter Thiel

This book emphasizes on innovation. Innovation helps the businessman to get the benefit of the “First mover benefit”. When one will innovate something then that businessman will have the benefit of having the monopoly market because no one else will have an idea about that thing. So, there will be huge sell thus there will also be a huge profit. Again, this book says that when one businessman will innovate something then that business will have some new customer as well by serving them good the business will get some loyal customer as well.

7. Shoe Dog

-by Phil Knight

This book is one of Bill Gates favorite from 2016. This book has detailed regarding the whole journey of the “Nike” company. The writer Phil Knight has discussed the detailed how he survived in business, how he comes over the time of difficulties, how he won over the competitor and so on. As Phil Knight is one of the greatest businessmen of all time the ideas generated by him will help the beginners a lot. Because they are able to learn and understand the pros and cons of business.

8. Grit

-by Angela Duckworth

Whether one is in business or not this book will serve as a great inspiration for anyone because this book will show the basis for success. Whether one is a doctor, a player, a scientist or any other profession this book will serve in great inspiration and as the right theory of success in all profession. This book says that one should not need to be a genius to succeed in business. To be successful in business one will need passion and long-term determination.

The passion about business will ensure that the businessman will be able to concentrate fully on the business. When one will concentrate fully on something that thing will lead to success. Again, the determination will also help a businessman to be focused on business and the focus will help to lead a business on success. When one will focus on one thing that person will be able to understand every detail about business and the pros and cons of business.

The above books will help the business beginners in understanding the various aspect of business and the basic understanding of business which will, in turn, result in long-term success.     

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