BOOKS & MOVIES

Everybody loves to read a run-away best-seller or watch an Oscar-winning blockbuster, but there’s a business side to books and movies.  These are a few of our favorites.  Some offer solid advice, others present success stories, while all business books and movies provide the inspiration you need to start a business, stick with it and take it to the next level.

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BOOKS AND MOVIES WE RECOMMEND: Read our blogs on these favorites:

              ◊ Good to Great by the Heath brothers
              ◊ Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Jim Collins
 

Indispensable must-reads about turning your passions into success.

On Running Your Business And Turning Passion Into Success:

               ◊ The Answer by John Assaraf & Murray Smith
               ◊ Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
               ◊ The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
               ◊ E-Myth Mastery by Michael E. Gerber
               ◊ Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
               ◊ The Breakthrough Company by Keith r. McFarland

For Women Only:

                ◊ In A Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
                ◊ Millionaire Women by Jeanne Torrence Hauer
                ◊ The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs by Jeanne Halladay Coughlin
                ◊ Ladies Who Launch by Victoria Colligan & Beth Schoenfeldt with Amy Swift

Best Marketing Books:

                 ◊ Blink by Malcolm Gadwell
                 ◊ Tipping Point by Malcolm Gadwell
                 ◊ Groundswell by Charlene LI and Josh Bernoff
                 ◊ Wikinomics by Don Tapscott
                 ◊ Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
                 ◊ BuzzMarketing by Mark Hughes

Best Books For Sales:

                 ◊ Attracting Perfect Customers by Stacey Hall & Jan Brogniez

Inspirational:

                 ◊ A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
                 ◊ Learned Optimism by Martin E. P. Speligman, Ph.D.
                 ◊ Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham
                 ◊ Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
                 ◊ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Favorite Movies:

                  ◊ The Glow Project