{"id":53118,"date":"2008-11-14T08:54:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-11-14T08:54:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T14:54:08","slug":"book-review-friday-my-top-ten-favorite-business-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/book-review-friday-my-top-ten-favorite-business-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review Friday: My Top Ten Favorite Business Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than reviewing one book this week, I thought I would share my favorite business books. I get asked this question regularly, most recently when I was lecturing at Vanderbilt University&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Owen Business School<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/iStock_000004257988Small.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"378\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of &copy;iStockphoto.com\/MistikaS, Image #4257988\" title=\"Photo courtesy of &copy;iStockphoto.com\/MistikaS, Image #4257988\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Photo courtesy of &copy;iStockphoto.com\/MistikaS<\/div>\n<p>I have blogged on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/2007\/01\/my-ten-favorite-business-books.html\">this topic previously<\/a>. However, it has been almost two years. Since that time, my list has changed. Only four of the previous ones are on the new list. However, all twenty (the previous list and this one) are excellent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p>Here are my current top ten favorites (Note: these are all Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/advertising\/domc-2\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Disclosure of Material Connection\" rel=\"noopener\">affiliate links<\/a>). They are listed in alphabetical order, but with no specific priority:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060799900\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Focus<\/em><\/a> by Al Ries<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142000280\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Getting Things Done<\/em><\/a> by David Allen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0066620996\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Good to Great<\/em><\/a> by Jim Collins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1400046831\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Love Is the Killer App<\/em><\/a> by Tim Sanders<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN0743201140\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Now, Discover Your Strengths<\/em><\/a> by Marcus Buckingham<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596522347\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Slide:ology<\/em><\/a> by Nancy Duarte<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812930096\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Stress for Success<\/em><\/a> by James E. Loehr and Mark McCormack<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0887307280\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The E-Myth Revisited<\/em><\/a> by Michael Gerber<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1591842336\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tribes<\/em><\/a> by Seth Godin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385265425\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>You Are the Message<\/em><\/a> by Roger Ailes\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, I purposely did not include any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasnelson.com\/consumer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Nelson<\/a> books. I don&rsquo;t want to get into the politics of why I included one author and not another. As I said previously, I read everything by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_b\/102-2264563-9580966?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=John+C.+Maxwell&Go.x=3&Go.y=8&Go=Go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John C. Maxwell<\/a>. He is my friend and my mentor, and I highly recommend anything he has written. If you are new to his work, start with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0785288376\/fwis-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000033; font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:16px;\">Question: What are your favorite business books? You can leave a comment by <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/book-review-friday-my-top-ten-favorite-business-books.html?#respond\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather than reviewing one book this week, I thought I would share my favorite business books. I get asked this question regularly, most recently when I was lecturing at Vanderbilt University&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbilt\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Owen Business School<\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1156,173,1631,827,1632,1633,33,1193,1022,1634,1635,1636,1390,1637],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Book Review Friday: My Top Ten Favorite Business Books | Full Focus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fullfocus.co\/book-review-friday-my-top-ten-favorite-business-books\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book Review Friday: My Top Ten Favorite Business Books | Full Focus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rather than reviewing one book this week, I thought I would share my favorite business books. 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