My Favorite books

I had cultivated the habit of reading books few years back and there is no stopping it, though I am not consistent enough, I do make it a point to read at least one book a month. As they say learning never ends, books are my primary source of learning. I have over 75 books in my library at this point, some of them are recommended by my friends, some are best sellers, some are recommended by other authors, some I bought while I was just browsing around in book store.

If you want to excel in business, general management, enhance your leadership skills, want to be a great people manager, improve your sales, learn project execution, manage your finances then here are some of the must have books

Leadership and Politics

• Dreams from my father (Barack Obama)
• Audacity of Hope (Barack Obama)
• Story of my experiment with truth (Gandhi)

Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurship (Hisrich Peters)
• The High Performance Entrepreneur (Subroto Bagchi)
• Rich Dad Poor Dad (Robert T Kiyosaki)
• One minute entrepreneur (Ken Blanchard)

Operations

• The Goal (Eliyahu M. Goldratt)
• The Goal 2 (Eliyahu M. Goldratt)

Business & Strategy & Leadership

• Blue Ocean Strategy (W. Chan Kim)
• Built to Last (Jim Collins)
• Execution (Ram Charan)
• Good to Great (Jim Collins)
• The Starfish and the Spider ( Ori Brafman)
• Employee first customer second (Vineet Nayar)

Leadership

• Daily Inspiration (Robin Sharma)
• Leadership in the Era of uncertainty (Ram Charan)
• It’s not about the Bike (Lance ArmStrong)

Sales and Marketing

• What they don’t teach you at Harvard (Mark H McCormack)
• Principle of Marketing (Philip Kotler)
• Positioning (jack Trout)
• The little red book of selling (Jeffery Gitomer)
• How to sell yourself (Joe Girard)

People Management
• How to win friends and influence people (Dale Carnegie)

If you are really interested in business current affairs, subscribe to Fortune magazine, it would cost you around Rs. 2400 for a year with 2 magazines a month. My current read is “Thinkertoys” from Michael Michalko on creative thinking.