The Personal MBA Business Book Recommender

MBA programs don’t have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA features the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research. So skip b-school and the $150,000 loan: you can get a world-class business education simply by reading these books.
This page is designed to help you get started with the PMBA Recommended Reading List, based on the type of work you do.
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The following recommendations will help you get started with the Personal MBA…
For Entrepreneurs and Business Owners:
- Bankable Business Plans by Edward Rogoff
- The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
- Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson
- The Knack by Norm Brodsky & Bo Burlingham
- The New Business Road Test by John Mullins
- How to Make Millions with Your Ideas by Dan Kennedy
- Getting Real by 37signals
- The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes
- Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got by Jay Abraham
- Permission Marketing by Seth Godin
- The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
For Managers and Corporate Leaders:
- First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
- 12: The Elements of Great Managing by Rodd Wagner & James Harter
- Growing Great Employees by Erika Andersen
- Hiring Smart by Pierre Mornell
- The Essential Drucker by Peter F. Drucker
- Total Leadership by Stewart Friedman
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
- The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan by George Bradt et al
- The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
- Smart Choices by John S. Hammond et al
- Learning from the Future by Liam Fahey & Robert Randall
- Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson et al
For Employees and Individual Contributors:
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
- The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
- The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
- Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun
- The Simplicity Survival Handbook by Bill Jensen
- Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale
- The Unwritten Laws of Business by W.J. King
- The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker










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