Books for personal development, management and entrepreneurship.
Disclaimer: The publishers and books mentioned in the repository are personal recommendations that don’t bring any provision.
This page represents a list of personal recommanded books. The list covers topics like personal development, self improvement, (self) management and entrepreneurship. For beginners, each book category contains three books to start. However, you don’t have to read the books in the given order - feel free to choose.
The One Thing by Gary Keller
The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results - An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Good To Great by Jim Collins
Can a good company become a great one? If so, how?
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
OKRs - The Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth
What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
How To Create Your Business Culture
Zero To One by Peter Thiel
Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
The following section shows briefly some tips to support reading.
Work with a book instead of just consuming it. “Working with a book” means to become clear about the core ideas/principles and how to implement them in daily life.
Take notes to summarize the content (also for later look-up quickly) and think about the most important points.
“To become clear about the content” means to be able to apply the topics in real world producing meaningful results - No smoke and mirrors. Building skills often take months or even years.
Read good books multiple times. Good books provide new and deeper insights after being read more than once. The first reading should be used to build a foundation. All further times to strengthen the foundation and go deeper into the topic. However, there should be at least a couple of months between repetitions in order to process the knowledge.
The learning process takes time - Don’t rush things or force them. Especially in the beginning, it’s a sneaky trap to overload oneself by taking too much in too short a time. Therefore, it’s important to find the balance between required effort and breaks to relax.
Consider the author’s culture and context. Maybe things works different within your circumstances and must be adapted.
Talk to other people with similar opinions about the topics, but don’t be disappointed if they disagree. A good discussion can provide new perspectives.
